Renato Poggioli, was an Italian academic specializing in comparative literature.
11 Facts About Renato Poggioli
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Renato Poggioli lectured in this capacity in Vilnius and Warsaw in Poland.
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Renato Poggioli received a second doctorate in 1937 at the University of Rome.
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In 1938 Renato Poggioli, who wished to leave Italy, came to the United States with his wife to teach in a summer program at Middlebury College in Vermont.
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Renato Poggioli taught during the summer of 1947 at the University of Chicago.
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Renato Poggioli was named full professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard in 1950.
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Renato Poggioli's best known book is his Teoria dell'arte d'avanguardia, which was not issued as a single volume until 1962.
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En route, Renato Poggioli's car crashed, and he died of his injuries several days later in a hospital in Crescent City, California.
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Mrs Renato Poggioli was severely injured in the accident that killed her husband; their daughter, Sylvia, who was in the car with her parents, suffered minor injuries.
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Renato Poggioli is briefly mentioned in Saul Bellow's 1964 novel Herzog.
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Renato Poggioli's daughter, Sylvia Poggioli, who was born when her father was teaching at Brown University, is the senior European correspondent for NPR.