Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, Boston University
Dennis Costa received a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Yale in 1977. He is the author of Irenic Apocalypse: Some Uses of Apocalyptic in Dante, Petrarch and Rabelais. He has also written articles on Dante, St. Bonaventure, Pico della Mirandola, Erasmus, and Tommaso Companella. His specialty is Medieval and Renaissance literature, but Professor Costa has also written on the 18th century English poet Christopher Smart and on the 20th century Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Currently he is working on an article on Mantaigne's essay 'on Repentence' and on a booklength study of time in Dante's Commedia.
"Cuanto falta para Jerusalen?: Lorca's Apocalyptic and the Pradigms of Peace" (article in progress)
"The Speed of Fright: Temporal Dramas in Dante's Inferno," KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time, II#2 (2002)
Domesticating the Divine Economy: Humanist Theology in Erasmus Convivia," in Fergusen, M. and Quint, D. eds. Creative Imitation. New Essays in Renaissance Literature. SUNY: Binghampton (1992)
Irenic Apocolypse: Some Uses of Apocalyptic in Dante, Petrarch and Rabelais. Stanford University: Saratoga California (1981)
"Dante as a Poet-Theologian," Dante Studies LXXXIX (1971)