Charles S. Singleton

Charles S. Singleton was an American scholar, writer, and critic of literature. He was an expert on the work of Dante Alighieri, but also of Giovanni Boccaccio. He wrote An Essay on the Vita Nuova, and the famous Dante Studies. He studied, as did the German critic Erich Auerbach, the allegorical interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy, work which he also translated into English, in six volumes. Irma Brandeis was one of his disciples. Professor Singleton gave the brilliant lecture: The Vistas in Retrospect in 1965 at the great Florence meeting when he received the golden medal for Dante Studies already awarded to T. S. Eliot and André Pezard, and to no one else since then.