Franco Masciandaro, “My Journey as a Student with Dante.”

Franco Masciandaro is Professor Emeritus at the University of Connecticut and a specialist in medieval and renaissance Italian literature. He is the author of La problematica del tempo nella Commedia (Longo Editore, 1976), Dante as Dramatist: The Myth of the Earthly Paradise and Tragic Vision in the Divine Comedy (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1991), La conoscenza viva: Letture fenomenologiche da Dante a Machiavelli (Longo, 1998), The Stranger as Friend: The Poetics of Friendship in Homer, Dante, and Boccaccio (Firenze University Press, 2013), and co-author of Dante | Hafiz: Readings on the Sigh, the Gaze, and Beauty (Pinsapo Press, 2017). He is also a graduate of Brooklyn College 😉

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