Ernest Hatch Wilkins

Ernest Hatch Wilkins (14 September 1880 – 2 January 1966) was an American Romanist and Italianist.

Biography

Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Wilkins graduated from Amherst College in 1903. In 1910, he received his doctorate from Harvard University with the thesis The Chronology of the Youth of Boccaccio.

Wilkins taught at Amherst College (1900–1904), at Johns Hopkins University (1905), from 1906 to 1912 at Harvard University. From 1912 to 1926, he was at the University of Chicago first associate professor, then professor of Romance studies (from 1923 also dean). From 1927 to 1946, he was president of Oberlin College. From 1947 to 1950 he taught as a visiting professor at Harvard University.

Wilkins was president of the Modern Language Association and the Dante Society of America. He was a member of the Medieval Academy of America, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1930) and since 1952 a corresponding member of the Accademia della Crusca.

His decorations include the Cavaliere della Corona d'Italia in 1920 and the Blue Grand Cordon of the Order of Jade in 1938. Wilkins was an honorary citizen of the parish of Arquà Petrarca.

Works

• Dantis Alagherii Operum latinorum concordantiae (1912; with Edward Kennard Rand)
• The French verb. Its forms and tense uses (1914; with William A. Nitze)
• Italian grammar (1915; with Charles Hall Grandgent)
• First Italian book (1920)
• L'Italia (1920; with Antonio Marinoni)
• Dante. Poet and apostle (1921)
• Modern discussions of the dates of Petrarch’s prose letters (1929)
• Living in crisis (1937)
• Toward unity (1946)
• The Making of the "Canzoniere" and other Petrarchan studies (1951)
• A History of Italian literature (1954)
• Studies in the life and works of Petrarch (1955)
• Petrarch at Vaucluse. Letters in verse and prose (1958; editor)
• Petrarch's eight years in Milan (1958)
• The invention of the sonnet and other studies in Italian literature (1959)
• Petrarch's later years (1959)
• Petrarch's correspondence (1960)
• Life of Petrarch (1963)
• A concordance to the Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri (1965; with Thomas Goddard Bergin)
• Studies on Petrarch and Boccaccio (1978; edited by Aldo S. Bernardo)

External links

• Works by Ernest Hatch Wilkins at Internet Archive
• Works by Ernest Hatch Wilkins at The Online Books Page
• Works by Ernest Hatch Wilkins at JSTOR