Rebay, Luciano
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Name (Latin)
Rebay, Luciano
Date of birth
1928-04-23
Date of death
2014-07-24
Field of activity
Italian poetry--History and criticism
Occupation
Literary historians
Literature teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Boston globe WWW site, Aug. 8, 2014(in obituary dated Aug. 7, 2014: Luciano Rebay; born in Milan on April 23, 1928; on July 14, a fisherman chanced upon Dr. Rebay's body floating in the waters off West Tisbury [Mass.]; Dr. Rebay was 86 and when not at his Lambert's Cove home on Martha's Vineyard he lived in New York City; taught at Columbia Univ. for more than 45 yrs.; retired in 2005 as the Giuseppe Ungaretti professor of Italian literature emeritus; a scholar of modern Italian literature, he focused on poets)
- LC data base, 10-31-90:hdg. (Rebay, Luciano) Aug. 8, 2014 (associated resources in English, French, and Italian)
- Introduction to Italian poetry, 1991:CIP t.p. (Luciano Rebay)
- LC data base, 10-31-90:hdg. (Rebay, Luciano)
Wikipedia description:
Luciano Rebay (April 23, 1928 – July 14, 2014), known especially for his work on the poets Giuseppe Ungaretti, and Eugenio Montale, was one of the leading post-war critics of Italian literature in America. Rebay had a long affiliation with Columbia University, where he was the Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor of Italian and, from 2005 until his death, the Giuseppe Ungaretti professor emeritus. The following bibliography is a limited selection of his work. Rebay published many seminal articles on Montale, Ungaretti, and other Italian writers. He also translated many famous Italian poems into English. Audio recordings of his readings in the original Italian are still available.
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