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David Lummus

Stanford University
Department of French and Italian

David Lummus is a Ph.D. candidate in Italian specializing in medieval and early humanist literature and culture. He received his B.A. in Italian and Classics from the University of Texas at Austin. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for study in Italy and at Stanford has been awarded the GRO research grant and the Centennial Teaching Award. In addition to his work in medieval Italian, Lummus is also a translator of contemporary Italian poetry and literary prose.

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/grad/lummus.html

 

Project Summary

Exploring the importance of the human element in Giovanni Boccaccio’s extensive use of classical myth throughout his literary and scholarly career, Lummus’ dissertation is a study of Boccaccio’s peculiar and critical attitude toward the past. He argues that, by redirectioning the understanding of myth away from the theological and toward the human, Boccaccio differentiated himself from Petrarchan Humanism and created a legacy that was to last well into the modern era.