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Piero Boitani
2008 Albert J. and Helen M. Ravarino Distinguished Visiting Professor
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Professor of Comparative Literature at
the University of Rome "La Sapienza"
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Professor Boitani received his Laurea in Lettere from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" then went on to earn degrees from Wittenberg and Cambridge Universities. Currently professor of comparative literature at La Sapienza, Boitani has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Connecticut, Ohio State University and Keio University in Tokyo, and is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.
 Professor Boitani has authored a great number of books, including Chaucer and Boccaccio, English Medieval Narrative of the 13th and 14th Centuries, The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature, The Shadow of Ulysses: Figures of a Myth, The Bible and its Rewritings, and, with Notre Dame University Press, The Genius to Improve an Invention. His most recent books include Parole alate (Mondadori, 2004), The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and Winged Words: Flight in Poetry and History (The University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Piero Boitani will be a visiting professor at Notre Dame during the fall of 2008. He will be teaching the undergraduate course "Dante I" and the graduate course "Literature and Life: The Comparative Approach" as part of the Ph.D. in Literature program.
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