Robert M. Durling
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| Intro | Translator | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Translator | |
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| Birth | 11 March 1929 | |
| Death | 21 May 2015 (aged 86 years) | |
| Star sign | Pisces |
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Robert M. Durling was an American scholar and translator, known for his translations of Petrarch's Rime Sparse and (with Ronald Martinez) of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. He was professor emeritus of Italian and English literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He died on May 21, 2015.
Durling was a student of Charles S. Singleton and took his course on the Comedy, a class he said "literally changed my life."