Serena Professor of Italian

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The Serena Professorship of Italian is the senior professorship in the study of the Italian language at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1917 by a donation of £10,000 from Arthur Serena (died 1922), a shipbroker and son of the Venetian patriot Leone Serena.

[edit] Serena Professors

  • Thomas Okey (1919)
  • Raffaello Piccoli (1929)
  • Edward Bullough (1933)
  • Eric Reginald Pearce Vincent (1934)
  • Uberto Limentani (1962)
  • Patrick Boyde (1981)
  • Zygmunt Barańksi (2002)