Deborah Parker is Professor of Italian. She holds a BA from the University of Toronto (1976) and an MA and PhD from Harvard (1985).<\/p>\n
She is the author of Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance<\/em> (Duke University Press, 1992) and Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2000).\u00a0 She has authored more than thirty articles on Umberto Eco, Dante, Renaissance printing practices, medieval and Renaissance commentaries, and artist-poets of the Renaissance. Professor Parker is the general editor of The World of Dante<\/em>. Special interests include artistic and literary interrelations in the Renaissance, Medicean Florence, Dante, and digital humanities computing. She is currently working on a book-length study of Michelangelo\u2019s letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deborah Parker is Professor of Italian. She holds a BA from the University of Toronto (1976) and an MA and PhD from Harvard (1985). She is the author of Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance (Duke University Press, 1992) and Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet (Cambridge University Press, 2000).\u00a0…<\/p>\n