Paget Toynbee

Paget Toynbee ( born January 20, 1855 in Wimbledon, † May 13 1932 in Burnham, Buckinghamshire ) was a British linguist and Italianist.

Life and work

Toynbee studied at Oxford and became a PhD 1901 Doctor of Letters ( DLitt ). He was significant especially when Dante researchers. Toynbee in 1918 corresponding member of the Accademia della Crusca, and in 1919 a Fellow of the British Academy. He was brother of the economic historian Arnold Toynbee and uncle of the universal historian Arnold J. Toynbee.

Toynbee bequeathed in 1932 the Bodleian Library 4,000 volumes.

Works

  • Specimens of old French ( 9th - 15th centuries ), Oxford 1892
  • Index of proper names in the prose works and Canzoniere of Dante, Boston 1894
  • (Editor) A historical grammar of the French language, from the French of Auguste Brachet rewritten and enlarged, Oxford 1896 [ editor of A Historical Grammar of the French Tongue, translated by GW Kitchin, Oxford 1879 ]
  • A dictionary of proper names and notable matters in the works of Dante, Oxford 1898
  • Ricerche e note Dantesque, Bologna 1899, 1904
  • La Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Il testo wittiano riveduto, London 1900
  • Dante Alighieri, London 1900 ( Italian: Torino 1908), 4th extended edition udT Dante Alighieri. His Life and Words, London 1910
  • Dante studies and researches, London 1902, New York 1971
  • Dante in English literature from Chaucer to Cary ( c.1380 - 1844), 2 vols, London 1909
  • Concise dictionary of proper names and notable matters in the works of Dante, Oxford 1914, New York 1968
  • The correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771), Oxford 1915
  • Britain's tribute to Dante in literature and art; a chronological record of 540 years ( c. 1380-1920 ), London 1921
  • Dante Studies, Oxford 1921
Wimbledon (London) Integrated Authority File
629722
de