Dr Robert Wilson

Lecturer in Italian

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3645

Email

rpw@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 203

Location

Buchanan

Office hours

Tuesday 10-11, Thursday 12-1

 

Research areas

Mediaeval Italian literature, especially Dante.

 20th century and Contemporary Italian detective fiction.

Selected publications

• Purgatorio XXIX

  Wilson, R. P., Feb 2020, Lectura Dantis Bononiensis . Pasquini, E. & Galli, C. (eds.). Bologna: Bononia University Press, Vol. 9. p. 49-68 20 p. (Lectura Dantis Bononiensis).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• ‘Would you Adam and Eve it?’

  Wilson, R. P., Dec 2016, Vertical readings in Dante's Comedy. Corbett, G. & Webb, H. (eds.). Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, Vol. 2. p. 31-53 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 'Quando Amor mi spira': Inspiration and Art in Purgatorio

  Wilson, R. P., 2013, Nature and Art in Dante: Literary and Theological Essays. O'Connell, D. & Petrie, J. (eds.). Dublin: Four Courts Press, p. 51-76 26 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Allegory as avoidance in Dante’s early commentators: ‘bella menzogna’ to ‘roza corteccia’

  Wilson, R. P., 2013, Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary. Nasti, P. & Rossignoli, C. (eds.). University of Notre Dame Press, p. 30-52 (The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature; vol. 13).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Prophecies and Prophecy in Dante's Commedia

  Wilson, R. P., 2008, Leo S. Olschki Editore. 226 p. (Biblioteca dell' "Archivum Romanicum". Serie I: Storia, letteratura, paleografia; vol. 346)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• 'Quandoque bonus dormitat Dantes'?: the treatment of Dante's errors in the "Trecento" commentaries

  Wilson, R. P., 2007, In: Rassegna Europea di Letteratura Italiana. 29-30, p. 141-155

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Narrative innovation in Loriano Macchiavelli's Sarti Antonio Stories

  Wilson, R. P., Nov 2007, In: Romance Studies. 25, 4, p. 309-321

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Exile and Relegation in Dante and Ovid

  Wilson, R. P., Jan 2002, In: Annali d'Italianistica. 20, p. 55-72

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Prophecy by the Dead in Dante and Lucan

  Wilson, R. P., 1997, In: Italian Studies. 52, p. 16-37

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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