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Allen Mandelbaum was an Italian-American poet, translator, and professor of Italian literature. He was born on May 4, 1926 in Rome, Italy. He was educated at the University of Rome and the University of Florence, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1954. Mandelbaum was a professor of Italian literature at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1956 to 1993. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and the University of Toronto. Mandelbaum was a prolific translator of Italian literature, including works by Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Book Award for Translation in 1975 for his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Mandelbaum died on April 26, 2011, at the age of 84. He was survived by his wife, two sons, and two grandchildren.

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1980

His translation of the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri appeared between 1980 and 1984; they were published by the University of California Press and supported by the notable Dante scholar Irma Brandeis. He subsequently acted as general editor of the California Lectura Dantis, a collection of essays on the Comedy; two volumes, on the Inferno and Purgatorio, have been published. Mandelbaum received the 1973 National Book Award in category Translation for Virgil's Aeneid. In 2000, Mandelbaum traveled to Florence, Italy, for the 735th anniversary of Dante's birth, and was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor of the City of Florence for his translation of the Divine Comedy. In 2003, he was awarded The Presidential Prize for Translation from the President of Italy, and received Italy's highest award, the Presidential Cross of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity.

1966

He taught English and comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York from 1966 to 1986 and served as executive officer of the Ph.D. Program in English from 1972 to 1980. In 1989 he was named the W. R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University.

1926

Allen Mandelbaum (May 4, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was a Jewish American professor of literature and the humanities, poet, and translator from Classical Greek, Latin and Italian. His translations of classic works gained him numerous awards in Italy and the United States.

He was born in Albany, New York in 1926 and at age 13 moved with his family to Manhattan. After beginning his higher education at Yeshiva University, he studied English and comparative literature at Columbia University, receiving his master's degree in 1946 and his doctorate in 1951. He then spent 15 years in Italy.