Martin McLaughlin

Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at Oxford

Martin McLaughlin is Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at Oxford and Fellow of Magdalen College. Amongst his publications are Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance (OUP, 1995) and Italo Calvino (Edinburgh UP, 1998), and he is the translator of Calvino's Why Read the Classics? (Cape, 1999), and Hermit in Paris (Cape, 2003), and of Umberto Eco, On Literature (Secker and Warburg, 2005). Recently he has co-edited Petrarch in Britain. Interpreters, Imitators and Translators over 700 Years (British Academy, 2007), and Writing Visibility.The Visual and the Textual in Calvino (Legenda, 2007).