Charles S. Singleton

Charles Southward Singleton ( * April 21, 1909 in McLoud, Oklahoma, † October 10, 1985 in Carroll County, Maryland) was an American linguist, Italianist and medievalist.

Life and work

Singleton et al studied in Florence at Michele Barbi and Mario Casella. In 1936 he received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley with the work The literature of pagentry in Florence falling on the Renaissance. He taught from 1937 to 1948 at the Johns Hopkins University, from 1948 to 1957 at Harvard University, and from 1957 again at Johns Hopkins University.

Other works

• (Ed.) Canti del Rinascimento carnascialeschi, Bari 1936
• (Eds. ), Nuovi canti carnascialeschi, Modena 1940
• Dante Studies, 2 vols, Cambridge, Mass.. 1954-1958: 1 Commedia. Elements of structure (including Baltimore 1977). 2 Journey to Beatrice ( partial translation Italian: Studi su Dante I. Introduzione alla Divina Commedia, Naples 1961, 1965; Viaggio a Beatrice, Bologna, 1968; overall translation Italian: La poesia della " Divina Commedia ", Bologna 1978, 1988, 1990, 1999, 2004)
• (Ed.) Boccaccio, Decameron, 2 vols, Bari 1955, Baltimore 1974
• (Ed.) Paget Toynbee, Dante Alighieri. His life and works, New York 1965
• Art, science, and history in the Renaissance, Baltimore 1967
• (Editor) Paget Toynbee, A Dictionary of proper names and notable matters in the works of Dante, Oxford 1968
• (Ed. with Peter Brieger and Millard Meiss ) Illuminated manuscripts of the Divine Comedy, 2 vols, Princeton 1969
• Interpretation. Theory and Practice, Baltimore 1969
• ( Translator ) Dante, The Divine Comedy, 6 vols, Princeton, 1970-1975
• La poesia della " Divina Commedia ", Bologna 1978, 1988, 1990, 1999, 2004 ( Italian translation of Dante Studies, 1954-1958, and a text from Illuminated manuscripts, 1969)
• (Ed.) Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron. The John Payne translation, Berkeley / London 1982