Thomas Okey
Thomas Okey (1852–1935) was an expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France.[1][2] In 1919, he became the first professor in Cambridge University under the Serena Professor of Italian title.
Works
- Venice and its Story (1904)[3]
- Paris and its Story (1925)
- Dante's Purgatorio (translator).[4]
- The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi[5]
- The Story of Avignon (1926)
- The Little Flowers of St. Francis
- Selections From the Vita Nuova
- The Old Venetian Places and Old Venetian Folk
- A Basketful of Memories: An Autobiographical Sketch (1930)
References
- ↑ Okey's first experience of the Italian language came when he attended the Extension Lectures at Toynbee Hall in the 1880s. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin, 1910.
- ↑ "Thomas Okey". www.oxforddnb.com. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
- ↑ Okey, Thomas (1904-01-01). Venice and Its Story. J. M. Dent & Company.
- ↑ "Robert Hollander: Charles Singleton's Hidden Debts to Thomas Okey and John Sinclair". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
- ↑ Okey, Thomas (2003-09-19). The Little Flowers of Saint Francis. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486431864.
External links
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Works written by or about Thomas Okey at Wikisource - Works by Thomas Okey at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Thomas Okey at Internet Archive
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