Edmund Garratt Gardner

John Edmund Garratt Gardner (* 12. Mai 1869 i​n Kensington (London); † 27. Juli 1935 i​n London) w​ar ein britischer Romanist u​nd Italianist.

Leben und Werk

Gardner, d​er anfänglich Medizin studierte, k​am über e​inen Erholungsaufenthalt i​n Florenz (ab 1890) z​ur im Selbststudium erworbenen Italianistik. Auf Grund seiner Veröffentlichungen w​urde er 1910 o​hne akademische Weihen m​it der „Barlow Lecture o​n Dante“ a​m University College London beauftragt (bis 1926) u​nd 1919 z​um ersten Serena Professor o​f Italian a​n der University o​f Manchester berufen (bis 1923). An d​er Universität London w​ar er v​on 1923 b​is 1925 Professor für „Early Italian Language a​nd Literature“, d​ann für Italienisch.

Gardner w​ar Mitglied d​er British Academy (1925), s​owie des Ordens d​er Krone v​on Italien (Offizier 1921, Kommandeur 1929, Großoffizier 1935).

Werke

Monographien

  • Dante's ten heavens. A study of the Paradiso, Westminster 1898, 1900, London 1904
  • The Story of Florence, London 1900, 11. Auflage 1928; Florence and its story, London 1953, New York 1970, Nendeln 1971, Freeport 1972
  • Dante, London 1900, 6. Auflage 1912, 1990
  • (mit Philip H. Wicksteed) Dante and Giovanni del Virgilio, Westminster 1902, New York 1970, Freeport 1971
  • The story of Siena and San Gimignano, London 1902, 1904
  • Dukes & poets in Ferrara. A study in the poetry, religion and politics of the Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Centuries, London 1904, New York 1968, St. Clair Shores, Mich. 1972
  • The king of court poets. A study of the work life and times of Lodovico Ariosto, London 1906, New York 1968, 1969
  • Saint Catherine of Siena. A study in the religion, literature and history of the fourteenth century in Italy, London 1907; u. d. T. The road to Siena. The essential biography of St Catherine, hrsg. von Jon M. Sweeney, Brewster, Mass. 2009
  • The painters of the school of Ferrara, London 1911
  • Dante and the mystics, New York 1912, London 1913, New York 1968
  • The national idea in Italian literature, Manchester 1921
  • Tommaso Campanella and his Poetry, Oxford 1923 (Taylorian lecture)
  • Italian literature, London 1927, Folcroft 1979 (portugiesisch: História Breve da Literatura Italiana, Lissabon 1941)
  • The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature, London 1930, New York 1971
  • Italy. A companion to Italian studies, London 1934

Herausgebertätigkeit

  • The Cell of Self-Knowledge. Seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521, London 1910, New York 1966
  • The Dialogues of Saint Gregory, London 1911, Merchantville, N. J. 2010
  • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, A Platonic Discourse upon Love, London 1914
  • The Book of Saint Bernard on the Love of God, London 1916
  • The reality of God, and religion & agnosticism. Being the literary remains of Baron Friedrich von Hügel, London 1931
  • Dante, The Divine Comedy, London 1961

Literatur

  • Gardner, John Edmund Garratt. In: John Archibald Venn (Hrsg.): Alumni Cantabrigienses. A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Teil 2: From 1752 to 1900, Band 3: Gabb–Justamond. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1947, S. 12 (venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv – Internet Archive).
  • Olin H. Moore: Edmund Garratt Gardner (1869–1935). In: Italica. Band 12, Nr. 4, 1935, ISSN 0021-3020, S. 200, JSTOR 475490.
  • Cesare Foligno: Edmund Garratt Gardner, 1869–1935. In: Proceedings of the British Academy. Band 21, 1936, ISSN 0068-1202, S. 464–479.
  • Charles J. Sisson, Cesare Foligno: Edmund Garratt Gardner, 12 May 1869 – 27 July 1935. A bibliography of his publications, with appreciations. Dent, London 1937 (mit Bild).
  • Jonathan Usher: Gardner, (John) Edmund Garratt (1869–1935). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Band 21: Freud–Gibberd. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861371-7, s. v.
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