Robert M. Durling

Robert M. Durling (March 11, 1929 – May 21, 2015)^[1] was an American scholar and translator, known for his translations of Petrarch's Rime Sparse and (with Ronald Martinez) of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.^[2] He was professor emeritus of Italian and English literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.^[3] He died on May 21, 2015.

Durling was a student of Charles S. Singleton and took his course on the Comedy, a class he said "literally changed my life."^[4]

He graduated from Harvard University (BA, PhD).

Bibliography

• The Figure of the Poet in Renaissance Epic. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1966.^[5]
• Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime Petrose (with Ronald L. Martinez). Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1990.^[6]