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Thomas G. Bergin

American scholar of Italian literature

Died when: 82 years 347 days (995 months)
Star Sign: Scorpio

 

Thomas G. Bergin

Thomas Goddard Bergin OBE (November 17, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American scholar of Italian literature, who was "noted particularly for his research on Dante's Divine Comedy and for its translation." He was the Sterling Professor of Romance Languages at Yale University, and Master of Timothy Dwight College.

He is the first poet to have his words launched into outer space to orbit the earth.


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