Thomas Goddard Bergin

Thomas Goddard Bergin (born November 17, 1904 in New Haven , Connecticut , † October 30, 1987 in Madison , Connecticut) was an American Romanist , Italianist and Provençalist .

life and work

Thomas Bergin studied at Yale University and received his doctorate in 1929 with the thesis Giovanni Verga (New Haven 1931, Westport 1969). He was an instructor at Yale from 1925 to 1930 , associate professor at Western Reserve University in Cleveland from 1930 to 1935 , professor of Romance studies at the University of Albany, The State University of New York from 1935 to 1941 , and from 1941 to 1948 in the same position at Cornell University in Ithaca (in between military service in Italy).

From 1949 Bergin taught at Yale University, first as Benjamin Barge Professor , from 1957 until his retirement in 1973 as Sterling Professor . In 1947 he was president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian .

Bergin received honorary degrees from Hofstra College (1958) and the State University of New York at Binghamton (1984). At Yale University, a scholarship and room were named after him.

Other works

Monographs

Luciano Zuccoli. Ritratto umbertino, Rome 1940
(with George Irving Dale) Spanish grammar, New York 1943
(with Ernest Hatch Wilkins ) A History of Italian literature, Cambridge, Mass. 1954, 1974
Il canto 9. del "Paradiso", Rome 1959
Dante, New York 1965, 1976
An approach to Dante, London 1965
(with Ernest Hatch Wilkins) A Concordance to the Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, Cambridge, Mass. 1965
Perspectives on the Divine Comedy, New Brunswick 1967, Bloomington / London 1970
A diversity of Dante, New Brunswick 1969
Dante's Divine comedy, Englewood Cliffs 1971
Gridiron glory. Yale football 1952-72, New Haven 1978
Boccaccio, New York 1981
(with Nathaniel B. Smith) An Old provençal primer, New York 1984
The Game. The Harvard-Yale football rivalry, 1875-1983, New Haven 1984
Invito alla Divina commedia, Bari 1986

Editor and translator activity

(Ed.) Modern Italian short stories, Boston 1938
(Ed. With Theodore Andersson) French plays: Brieux, Hervieu, Mirbeau, New York 1941
(Ed. With Raymond Thompson Hill ) Anthology of the Provençal troubadours, New Haven 1941, 1973
(Translator with Max Harold Fisch) The autobiography of Giambattista Vico, Ithaca 1944, 1963
(Translator with Max Harold Fisch) Giambattista Vico, The New Science, Ithaca 1944, Garden City 1961, Ithaca / London 1994
(Translator) Niccolò Machiavelli, The prince, New York 1947, Franklin Center 1978, 1986
(Ed. And translator) Dante, Inferno, New York 1948
(Ed. And translator) Dante, Purgatorio, New York 1953
(Ed. And translator) Dante, Paradise, New York 1954
(Ed.) The rhymes of Francesco Petrarca. A selection of translations, London / Edinburgh 1954
(Ed. And translator) Dante, The Divine Comedy, Arlington Heights 1955
(Ed. And translator) The poems of William of Poitou, New Haven 1955
(Ed.) Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Vers, Florence 1956
(Eds.) Bertran de Born, Liriche, Varese 1964
(Translator) An Anthology of italian verse, Montreal 1964
(Ed. And translator) The sonnets of Petrarch, Verona 1965
(Ed.) From time to eternity. Essays on Dante's Divine comedy, New Haven 1967
(Translator) Dante, The Divine Comedy, New York 1969
(Ed. And translator) Petrarca, Bucolicum carmen, New Haven / London 1974
(Ed. And translator) Petrarca, Selected sonnets, odes, and letters, Arlington Heights 1985
(Ed. With Jennifer Speake) Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance, London 1987, 2004 (Italian 1993)
(Translator with Anne Paolucci) Giacomo Leopardi, Selected poems, Smyrna, Del. 2003

literature

Italian literature. Roots and branches. Essays in honor of Thomas Goddard Bergin, ed. by Giose Rimanelli and Kenneth John Atchity, New Haven / London 1976
Diana Dubois (Ed.), My Harvard, my Yale, New York 1982

Web links

050127330 Literature by and about Thomas Goddard Bergin in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )

http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=mssa:ms.1629&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes

personal data
SURNAME	Bergin, Thomas Goddard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Romanist, Italianist and Provençalist
DATE OF BIRTH	17th November 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Haven , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH	October 30, 1987
Place of death	Madison , Connecticut