Scaglione, Aldo
SCAGLIONE, Aldo
SCAGLIONE, Aldo. American (born Italy), b. 1925. Genres: Language/ Linguistics, Literary criticism and history, Bibliography. Career: Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature, Dept. of Italian, New York University, since 1987. Professor, University of Toulouse, 1949-51, University of Chicago, 1951-52, University of California, Berkeley, 1952-68, Yale University, 1965, and City University of New York, 1971-72; W.R. Kenan Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1968-87. Publications: Nature and Love in the Late Middle Ages: An Essay on the Cultural Context of the Decameron, 1963; Ars Grammatica: A Bibliographic Survey, Two Essays on the Grammar of the Latin and Italian Subjunctive, and A Note on the Ablative Absolute, 1970; The Classical Theory of Composition from Its Origins to the Present, 1972; The Theory of German Word Order, 1981; Komponierte Prosa von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, 2 vols., 1981; The Liberal Arts and the Jesuit College System, 1986; Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry and Courtesy in Germany, France and Italy, 1991; Essays on the Arts of Discourse: Linguistics, Rhetoric, Poetics, 1998. EDITOR: Orlando Innamorato, Amorum Libri, by Matteo Maria Boiardo, 1951, 1963; Francis Petrarch, Six Centuries Later: A Symposium, 1975; Ariosto 1974 in America, 1976; The Emergence of National Languages, 1983; The Image of the Baroque, 1994. Address: Casa Italiana, New York University, 24 W. 12th St, New York, NY 10011, U.S.A. Online address: Aldo.Scaglione@nyu.edu