Bøger af Peter Booth

Presidio San Agustin del Tucson: A View of Tucson's Birthplace is a book written for the non-specialist about the prehistoric people who lived here over the millennium, the establishing of Tucson's presidio, the transferring of ownership of this area to the Mexican Republic, the people living inside the presidio, Tucson becoming part of the United States, and the recreation of the northeast corner of the presidio which brings the Presidio San Agustin del Tucson back to life.

Six essays on Dante and Hafiz. CONTENTS: >Franco Masciandaro (Ph.D., Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 1971) is Professor Emeritus at the University of Connecticut and a specialist in medieval and renaissance Italian literature. He is the author of La problematica del tempo nella Commedia (Longo Editore, 1976), Dante as Dramatist: The Myth of the Earthly Paradise and Tragic Vision in the Divine Comedy (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1991), La conoscenza viva: Letture fenomenologiche da Dante a Machiavelli (Longo, 1998), and The Stranger as Friend: The Poetics of Friendship in Homer, Dante, and Boccaccio (Firenze University Press, 2013). Peter Booth received his B.A. in English Literature from Bard College and studied Persian Language and Literature at the graduate school of Harvard University (with Anne Marie Schimmel and Wheeler Thackston). In 1977-8, on a scholarship from the Shah of Iran, he studied Persian Literature at Ferdowsi University in Mashhad. He was a resident for 32 years in Avatar Meher Baba's Home, "Meherabad" in rural India. He is currently completing a detailed study of the poetry of Hafiz of Shiraz with numerous new translations. Öykü Tekten is a poet, translator, and editor living between New York and Granada. She is one of the founding members of KAF Collective and is pursuing a PhD degree in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Nicola Masciandaro is Professor of English at Brooklyn College (CUNY) and a specialist in medieval literature. Published by Kaf Collectivewww.kafcollective.com