Background
Wayne A. Rebhorn was born on May 20, 1943, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States, to Wayne A. Rebhorn, Sr. (in electrical maintenance) and Anna Patience Rodgers (a nurse).
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
Wayne A. Rebhorn studied English at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1964.
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, United States
Rebhorn received hid Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale University in 1968.
(In a book that will change the way we read Renaissance rh...)
In a book that will change the way we read Renaissance rhetoric, Wayne A. Rebhorn shows that the issues at stake are not dialogue and debate but power and control.
https://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Mens-Minds-Literature-Renaissance/dp/080142562X/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=wayne+a.+rebhorn&qid=1580117159&sr=8-6
1995
(Throughout the European Renaissance, authors famous and o...)
Throughout the European Renaissance, authors famous and obscure debated the nature, goals, and value of rhetoric. In a host of treatises, handbooks, letters, and orations, written in both Latin and the vernacular, they attempted to assess the central role that rhetoric clearly played in their culture.
https://www.amazon.com/Renaissance-Debates-Rhetoric-Wayne-Rebhorn/dp/0801482062/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=wayne+a.+rebhorn&qid=1580117159&sr=8-9
1999
(The Decameron is a joyously comic book that has earned it...)
The Decameron is a joyously comic book that has earned its place in world literature not just because it makes us laugh, but more importantly because it shows us how essential laughter is to the human condition. Published on the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio’s birth, Wayne A. Rebhorn's new translation of The Decameron introduces a generation of readers to this "rich late-medieval feast" in a "lively, contemporary, American-inflected English."
https://www.amazon.com/Decameron-Giovanni-Boccaccio/dp/0393350266/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=wayne+a.+rebhorn&qid=1580117159&sr=8-1
2014
(Wayne A. Rebhorn’s thorough and thought-provoking introdu...)
Wayne A. Rebhorn’s thorough and thought-provoking introduction to Machiavelli, his world, and his famous political treatise (1513).
https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Norton-Critical-Third-Editions/dp/0393936910/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=wayne+a.+rebhorn&qid=1580117159&sr=8-3
2019
Wayne A. Rebhorn was born on May 20, 1943, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States, to Wayne A. Rebhorn, Sr. (in electrical maintenance) and Anna Patience Rodgers (a nurse).
Wayne A. Rebhorn studied English at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1964. Rebhorn received hid Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale University in 1968.
Since 1968 Rebhorn works at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches English, Italian, and comparative literature.
Rebhorn has written, translated, edited, or co-edited ten books in addition to over twenty-five scholarly articles on authors from Boccaccio through More, Rabelais, DuBellay, and Shakespeare down to Milton. While he continues to work on Renaissance authors such as Machiavelli and Shakespeare and on Renaissance rhetoric, he recently published a new translation of Boccaccio's Decameron (Norton, 2013), and the Norton Critical Edition of Boccaccio's Decameron (2016). He has recently finished a new version of the Norton Critical Edition of Machiavelli's The Prince, and he is currently working on a new translation for Norton of Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier.
(The Decameron is a joyously comic book that has earned it...)
2014(Throughout the European Renaissance, authors famous and o...)
1999(In a book that will change the way we read Renaissance rh...)
1995(Wayne A. Rebhorn’s thorough and thought-provoking introdu...)
2019Rebhorn married Marlette Diane Olsen (a professor) on May 26, 1966. They have two children: Matthew Edmund and Rebecca Catherine.