Roberto de Lucca, Italian
A writer, translator, and scholar, De Lucca worked on projects mainly having to do with Italian literature, philosophy, and cinema. He was the translator of numerous works of Italian philosophy, and was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant, a Mellon Foundation Fellowship, and was a resident of Villa Spelman in Florence (Johns Hopkins). He completed an edition of Giordano Bruno's La Cabala del cavallo pegaseo for the Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali in Florence. He also worked on movie projects, subtitling Italian films and editing and translating scripts. He taught at the Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, Pace University, and Drew University, and held a BA from Columbia University and a PhD from Johns Hopkins. His works of fiction were published in Pleiades magazine and in Invarianti (in Italian), among others. He joined Bennington's faculty in the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures in the fall of 2004. He died in August 2007.
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