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Allen Mandelbaum (May 4, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was an American professor of literature and the humanities, poet, and translator from Classical Greek, Latin and Italian. His translations of classic works gained him numerous awards in Italy and the United States. Early life and educationHe was born in Albany, New York in 1926[1] and at age 13 moved with his family to Manhattan. After beginning his higher education at Yeshiva University, he studied English and comparative literature at Columbia University, receiving his master's degree in 1946 and his doctorate in 1951. He then spent 15 years in Italy.[2] Academic careerHe taught English and comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York from 1966 to 1986 and served as executive officer of the Ph.D. Program in English from 1972 to 1980.[3] In 1989 he was named the W. R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University. TranslationsHis translation of the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri appeared between 1980 and 1984; they were published by the University of California Press and supported by the notable Dante scholar Irma Brandeis. He subsequently acted as general editor of the California Lectura Dantis, a collection of essays on the Comedy; two volumes, on the Inferno and Purgatorio, have been published. Mandelbaum received the 1973 National Book Award in category Translation for Virgil's Aeneid.[4] In 2000, Mandelbaum traveled to Florence, Italy, for the 735th anniversary of Dante's birth, and was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor of the City of Florence for his translation of the Divine Comedy. In 2003, he was awarded The Presidential Prize for Translation from the President of Italy, and received Italy's highest award, the Presidential Cross of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity. Awards
Death and legacyHe died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 2011.[2] He was noted for his invariable production of translations of classic Greek, Latin, and Italian works with a constant size of exactly 400 pages. Published worksVerse
TranslationsClassics
| last = | first = | authorlink = | title = The Aeneid of Virgil (rev. 1971) | publisher = Bantam | year = 1981 | location = New York | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-553-21041-6}}
| last = | first = | authorlink = | title = Homer's Odyssey | publisher = Bantam | year = 1991 | location = New York | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0-553-21399-7}}{{further|English translations of Homer#Mandelbaum}}
| last = | first = | authorlink = | title = The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno (1980) | publisher = Bantam | year = 1982 | location = New York | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-553-21339-3}}
| last = | first = | authorlink = | title = The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio (1982) | publisher = Bantam | year = 1984 | location = New York | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-553-21344-X}}
| last = | first = | authorlink = | title = The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso (1984) | publisher = Bantam | year = 1986 | location = New York | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-553-21204-4}} Contemporary Italian poetry
| last = | first = | authorlink = | title = Selected poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti | publisher = Cornell UP | year = 1975 | location = Ithaca | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-8014-0850-4}} Edited work
| last = Mandelbaum | first = Allen | authorlink = |author2=Anthony Oldcorn |author3=Charles Ross | title = Lectura Dantis: Inferno. A Canto-by-Canto Commentary | publisher = University of California Press | year = 1998 | location = Berkeley | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0-520-21270-1}}
| last = Mandelbaum | first = Allen | authorlink = |author2=Anthony Oldcorn |author3=Charles Ross | title = Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio. A Canto-by-Canto Commentary | publisher = University of California Press | year = 2008 | location = Berkeley | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0-520-25056-7}} References1. ^"Allen Mandelbaum". Winston-Salem Journal, November 4 to 6, 2011. 2. ^1 [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/arts/allen-mandelbaum-translator-of-divine-comedy-dies-at-85.html "Allen Mandelbaum, Translator of Divine Comedy, Dies at 85"]. William Grimes. The New York Times, November 5, 2011. 3. ^[https://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/PDF/Publications/365%20Fifth%20Newsletter/2012_FEBRUARY_365_FIFTH.pdf Graduate Center Community News | February 2012] 4. ^[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1973 "National Book Awards – 1973"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-11. There was a "Translation" award from 1967 to 1983. External links{{Wikiquote}}
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