Examines the interplay between reading and writing in the works of Petrarch and Dante.
Albert Russell Ascoli is the Gladyce Arata Terrill Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his BA in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MA and PhD in Romance Studies from Cornell, and was a professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University before joining the faculty at Berkeley. The winner of numerous awards and fellowships at institutions such as the American Academy in Rome and the Newberry Library, he has edited several volumes and has authored three books and dozens of articles on medieval and Renaissance Italian literature.
