Please allow me to introduce myself as a new member of the Italian studies
list. My name is Charles T. Davis, and I have been teaching medieval and
renaissance history at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana 70118,
USA since 1956. I was born in Mississippi in 1929 and educated at Davidson
College in North Carolina and at Oxford University where I obtained my
doctorate in 1956 with a thesis on "Dante and the Idea of Rome." This was
also the title of my first book (Oxford, 1957). My second book was
"Dante's Italy and Other Studies" (Philadelphia, 1984). At present I am
writing a monograph on Giovanni Villani. My research has been concerned
primarily with Dante's political and historical thought and with culture
and politics in Florence and Tuscany during his lifetime. I have worked
and published papers on, among other things, Ubertino da Casale and the
Spiritual Franciscans; Tolomeo da Lucca, Remigio dei Girolami, and Tuscan
political theory; early Florentine libraries and education; Brunettto
Latini and Dante; Dante, Villani, and the Malispini question; Florentine
topography in early chroniclers; the concept of the good old time.
I should like to thank the organizers of this lively and varied list, of
which it is a pleasure to be a part.
Charles Davis
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