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Raniero Speelman M. (1957- )
Born in 1957 in The Hague, the Netherlands
Took his M.A. in Italian Literature at Leyden University in 1981 and afterwards studied History of Art at Leyden University and Turcology at Utrecht University.
From 1983-1987, Assistant Professor of Italian Literature at Leyden, from 1987 at Utrecht University
Ph.D. in 1993 at Leyden University (subject: La versione del Bestiaire d'Amours tràdita dal codice Magliabechiano II.IV.29)
From 1993 Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Utrecht University, mainly active on the field of Renaissance and Modern Literature and of translation studies.
Research fields:
Jewish Italian authors after World War II (selected titles: "Dall'Argon al Carbonio: la letteratura italiana ebraica del dopoguerra", in: "Gli spazi della diversità", Rome, Bulzoni/Leuven, Leuven UP 1995, pp. 69-101; "Primo Levi novelliere", "Incontri" 2001, 1-2, pp. 79-88; "Jewish Italian Literature from the Second World War to the Nineties", ed. by S. Pugliese, Westport, Greenwood Press, 2002)
Relationships between Italy and the Ottoman Empire (selected titles: "Le " Lettere informative delle cose de' turchi " di Pietro Businello in un codice modenese", in " EJOS " 6, 2001, 160 pp.; "Uno sconosciuto "Ost-Westlicher Divan" di Pietro Della Valle", to be published in " EJOS ", 2002/3; as well in preparation: "The Peace Negotiations between Venice and the Ottoman Empire" 1499-1503, with H. Theunissen, the first part, of ca. 200 pp., to be published in " EJOS ", 2002/3)
Medieval and Renaissance studies (various titles, here not included, ranking from analyses of the translations of the "Divine Comedy" and the Latin works of Petrarch into Dutch to comparative studies about Quattrocento and Cinquecento authors).
Literary translations (selected):
Ugo Foscolo, "Dei sepolcri", Amsterdam 1989
Primo Levi: "Storie Naturali", "Vizio di forma", "L'altrui mestiere", "Racconti e saggi", "Dialogo con Tullio Regge", "L'ultimo natale di guerra"; all published with Meulenhoff, Amsterdam, from 1990, and collected in 2001 in "Alle Verhalen" (The Complete Stories); Ad ora incerta (selection), Amsterdam, Meulenhoff 1988.
Een Italiaanse zomer (anthology of Italian short stories), Amsterdam, Meulenhoff 2002.
Other translations (selected):
Bruno Osimo,
Corso di traduzione sul sito Logos, versione neerlandese
Numerous giuridical, medical and technical translations for various agencies in
the Netherlands and Italy.
 r.speelman@let.uu.nl
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