Robert M. Durling
American scholar and translator (1929–2015)
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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).
