Background
Mandelbaum, Allen was born on May 4, 1926 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of Albert Naphtali and Leah (Gordon) Mandelbaum.
linguist translator university professor poet
Mandelbaum, Allen was born on May 4, 1926 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of Albert Naphtali and Leah (Gordon) Mandelbaum.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Yeshiva University, 1945. Master of Arts with 1st class honors, Columbia University, 1946. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1951.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Purdue University, 1987. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Turin, Italy, 1994.
He was named the West. R. Kenan, Junior. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University in 1989. 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.
He died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 2011. Ovid"s Metamorphoses The Selected Writings of Salvatore Quasimodo The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno (1980).
1982. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio (1982).
1984. X. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso (1984). 1986. Selected poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti.
Ithaca: Cornell Uttar Pradesh. 1975. Edited work Mandelbaum, Allen. Anthony Oldcorn; Charles Ross (1998).
Lectura Dantis: Inferno.
A Canto-by-Canto Commentary. Berkeley: University of California Press. Mandelbaum, Allen; Anthony Oldcorn.
Charles Ross (2008).
Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio. A Canto-by-Canto Commentary. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Married Marjorie Bogat, December 21, 1947. 1 child, Jonathan Renato.