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Foreword

Born and raised in the North of England Anthony Oldcorn headed to the US soon after graduating from Oxford University. He taught and studied at the University of Virginia and Harvard, where he earned a Ph.D. His rich teaching career has seen him in action at Wellesley, Vassar and Middlebury but for the last thirty-odd years Oldcorn has been at Brown, where he was head of the Italian Studies Department. He has published books and articles on Italian literatrure and culture as well as translations from Italian into English and vice versa (most recently a selection Seamus Heaney's poetry). He is one of the three editors of the California Lectura Dantis, a collection of 100 essays, each exploring one of the cantos of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Purgatorio volume is due out in 2006. He spent many years directing Brown's junior year abroad program in Bologna. He currently divides his time between Bologna and Pavia (where he teaches) and Boston, Massachusetts. He and his wife Françoise have six grandchildren living in London and Paris.