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Anthony Michael Mortimer (born 21 October 1970) is a British singer, songwriter and record producer from London. He is a former member of the boy band East 17, who were originally active from 1991 to 1997 and sold over 20 million records worldwide. Mortimer wrote the band's only number-one single, "Stay Another Day".
Faculty of Humanities. Department of English. Staff. Prof. Em. Anthony Mortimer. Contact: anthony.mortimer (at)unifr.ch. Bio. Anthony Mortimer obtained his BA from the University of Leeds (UK) and his Ph.D from Case Western Reserve University (USA).
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ANTHONY MORTIMER is Professor of English Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and also taught for many years at the University of Geneva. His major interests are in renaissance poetry and in the practice of verse translation.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the recent publication of two major works of translation by our colleague Anthony Mortimer, Emeritus Professor in our Department: Italian Renaissance Tales , Oxford World’s Classics (2019), with tales that provide sources for Chaucer, Shakespeare, Webster, Dryden, Keats and Byron, among others.
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Now Anthony Mortimer, already acclaimed as translator of Cavalcanti, Petrarch and Michelangelo, produces a verse translation that avoids Rossetti’s disturbing archaisms but preserves a lyric immediacy worthy of the original. This is a Vita Nuova for the twenty-first century. Online: Amazon (recommended edition) Digital Dante (free edition)
Anthony Mortimer, the acclaimed translator of Villon, Dante, Petrarch, and Michelangelo, this must be counted a happy consequence. In step with Claude Pichois’ Pléiade edition, Mortimer reproduces and translates the 1861 text of Les Fleurs du Mal, followed by Les Epaves (including the six pièces condamnées expunged from the 1857 edition
In this revised and expanded edition of Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance Anthony Mortimer presents a unique anthology of 136 English poems together with the specific Italian texts that they translate, adapt or exploit.
