Thomas Okey
Thomas Okey (1852–1935) was an expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France.[1][2] In 1919, he became the first professor in Cambridge University under the Serena Professor of Italian title.
Works
- Venice and its Story (1904)[3]
- Paris and its Story (1925)
- Dante's Purgatorio (translator).[4]
- The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi[5]
- The Story of Avignon (1926)
- The Little Flowers of St. Francis
- Selections From the Vita Nuova
- The Old Venetian Places and Old Venetian Folk
- A Basketful of Memories: An Autobiographical Sketch (1930)
References
- ↑ Okey's first experience of the Italian language came when he attended the Extension Lectures at Toynbee Hall in the 1880s. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin, 1910.
- ↑ http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101054191/
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=XJAKAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Thomas+Okey%22&dq=%22Thomas+Okey%22&ei=-Zj_SpzdN4uSkQSt0pWODw
- ↑ http://www.princeton.edu/~dante/ebdsa/hollander021206.html
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=j4v6K5pwUTIC&dq=%22Thomas+Okey%22&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=WGh48FMl7G&sig=gS1X90ALgsaQbXhAlECg4Np8Z4I&hl=en&ei=gZb_SuC2IcyDkAWL-7X8Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false
External links
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Works written by or about Thomas Okey at Wikisource - Works by Thomas Okey at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Thomas Okey at Internet Archive
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