"[A] scholarly study. . . . McLaughlin knows his subject inside and out."
"[A] scholarly study. . . . McLaughlin knows his subject inside and out."
Martin McLaughlin was Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Oxford from 2001 to 2017 and is now an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance and Italo Calvino. He has translated Italo Calvino: Letters 1941–1985 (Princeton), Calvino's Why Read the Classics? and Leon Battista Alberti’s Biographical and Autobiographical Writings.