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Thomas Goddard Bergin, OBE (November 17, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an “eminent twentieth-century American scholar of Italian literature”,〔Thomas Goddard Bergin Papers ()(MS 1629). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library〕 who was “noted particularly for his research on Dante's ''Divine Comedy'' and for its translation.”〔(), ''The New York Times'', 3 November 1987〕 He was the Sterling Professor of Romance Languages at Yale University, and Master of Timothy Dwight College.〔(New York Times. July 8, 1968 )〕 He is the first poet to have his words launched into outer space to orbit the earth.〔Giamatti, Bartlett; Swing, Thomas. ‘‘Master Pieces’’. Timothy Dwight College Press, 1964, pg.162〕〔(Advances in Geophysics. Volume 15. pg. 136. 3 March 1972 )〕 == Author, translator, editor == He is recognized as an authority on Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and the Provençal troubadours, as well as modern Italian writers, including Alberto Moravia, Salvatore Quasimodo, Giovanni Verga, and Giambattista Vico.〔〔Poitou, William of. Bergin, Thomas Goddard, trans. ''The Poems of William of Poitou''. Yale University Press (1955)〕〔Voegelin, Eric. ''Selected Book Reviews; Volume 13 of Works, Eric Voegelin''. University of Missouri Press (2001) ISBN 9780826263957 page 180.〕 Bartlett Giamatti referred to him as the “grand statesman of Italian scholarship in America.”〔Lectura Dantis, Journal of Dante research and interpretation. Number 2. Spring 1988 ()〕〔Roche, Thomas. ''Petrarch in English''. Penguin UK (2005). ISBN 9780141936727. page 243.〕 Among his translations are Dante's Divine Comedy (1948),〔 which was published in three-volumes with illustrations by Leonard Baskin, Niccolò Machiavelli's ''The Prince'' (1947) and Giambattista Vico's ''New Science'' (1946) with Max Fisch.〔Sowards, J. Kelley. ''Makers of the Western Tradition: Portraits from History: Volume One.'' Macmillan (1997) ISBN 9780312142520. page 197.〕 He published scholarly texts and monographs on authors and the literature of renaissance Italy, France, Spain and Provençal. His biography of the Italian author ''Boccaccio'' (1981) was considered a “notable book” of the year by the ''New York Times'', and was a finalist in 1981 for the National Book Critics Circle Award.〔(The National Book Critics Circle Award website )〕 He edited ''The Taming of the Shrew'' for ''The Yale Shakespeare'', and states in the introduction that his “basic principle was fidelity to the text” of the First Folio of 1623. This in part involved restoring many original wordings and punctuation that long editorial tradition had permitted to be altered.〔The Yale Shakespeare. Yale University Press 1954〕 He was prolific; the bibliography of his works in ''Italian Literature: Roots and Branches'' (1976), lists thirty-seven books, fifteen contributions to books, fifty articles in periodicals, and almost 500 book reviews.〔Rimanelli, Giose and Atchity, Kenneth. ‘‘Italian Literature’‘Yale University Press, 1976, pg. 421〕 His book ''Dante'' (1965) was published during the 700th anniversary year of the birth of the Italian poet,〔 a busy year for Bergin, during which he created a conference at Yale on Dante, he was the editor of the conference papers, which were published in book form as ''From Time to Eternity'',〔 and he traveled extensively lecturing on Dante. Julius A. Molinaro, writing in "Forum Italicum", the journal of Italian studies, states that there must be few “who are not acquainted with some aspect of his work, for it touches many fields ranging ... from the Provencal troubadours to translations of contemporary Italian poetry. Between these limits are a Dante concordance and invaluable books on Dante, Petrarch and Vico.” 〔Forum Italicum, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 1981. Pg. 132〕〔Reynolds, Mary Trackett. ''Joyce and Dante: The Shaping Imagination''. Princeton University Press (2014) ISBN 9781400856602 page xi, page 200.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas G. Bergin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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