Edmund Garratt Gardner

John Edmund Garratt Gardner ( born May 12, 1869 in Kensington ( London), † 27 July 1935 in London) was a British linguist and Italianist.

Life and work

Gardner, who studied medicine at first, came a relaxation stay in Florence ( 1890 ) for acquired through self-study Italian language. Because of his publications, he was commissioned in 1910 without academic ordinations with the " Barlow Lecture on Dante " at University College London named the first Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Manchester ( until 1926 ) and 1919 (up to 1923). At the University of London, he was from 1923 to 1925 Professor of " Early Italian Language and Literature ", then for Italian.

Gardner was a member of the British Academy (1925 ) and the Order of the Crown of Italy (officer in 1921, commander in 1929, Grand Officer 1935).

Works

Monographs

  • Dante's ten heavens. A study of the Paradiso, Westminster 1898, 1900, 1904 London
  • The Story of Florence, London 1900, 11th edition 1928; Florence and its story, London 1953, New York, 1970, Nendeln 1971, Freeport 1972
  • Dante, London 1900, 6th edition 1912, 1990
  • ( with Philip H. Wicksteed ) Dante and Giovanni del Virgilio, Westminster 1902, New York, 1970, Freeport 1971
  • The story of Siena and San Gimignano, London 1902, 1904
  • Dukes & poets in Ferrara. A study in the poetry, religion and politics of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries early, London, 1904, New York 1968, St. Clair Shores, Mich.. 1972
  • The king of court poets. A study of the work of Lodovico Ariosto life and times, London 1906, New York 1968, 1969
  • Saint Catherine of Siena. A study in the religion, literature and history of the fourteenth century in Italy, London 1907; and d T. The road to Siena. The essential biography of St Catherine, ed. by Jon M. Sweeney, Brewster, Mass.. 2009
  • The painters of the school of Ferrara, London 1911
  • Dante and the mystics, New York 1912, London 1913, New York 1968
  • The national idea in Italian literature, Manchester 1921
  • Tommaso Campanella and his Poetry, Oxford 1923 ( Taylorian lecture)
  • Italian literature, London 1927, Folcroft, 1979 ( Portuguese: Breve História da Literatura Italiana, Lisbon 1941)
  • The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature, London 1930, New York 1971
  • Italy. A companion to Italian studies, London 1934

Publishing activities

  • The Cell of Self- Knowledge. Seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521, London 1910, New York 1966
  • The Dialogues of Saint Gregory, London 1911, Merchantville, NJ 2010
  • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, A Platonic Discourse upon Love, London 1914
  • The Book of Saint Bernard on the Love of God, London 1916
  • The reality of God, and religion and agnosticism. Being the literary remains of Baron Friedrich von Hügel, London 1931
  • Dante, The Divine Comedy, London 1961
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