Short curriculum vitae, February 2012
Born Wellington, New Zealand, 27. v. 1939.
Primary and secondary schooling in Wellington.
Between 1956 and 1964 lived and studied in England.
M.A. with Honours obtained at Victoria University of Wellington, 1968.
Married Christine Oakley January 1969; taught at Victoria University of Wellington, Department of Romance Languages, February 1969 to August 1970.
Ph.D. obtained at Cambridge University, 1973, with a thesis on pre-Dante Italian poetry.
From 1973 until 2000, lecturer, senior lecturer, associate professor, personal chair, in the Department of Italian, University of Western Australia.
1980 Visiting Commonwealth Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge.
Four children, born 1969, 1971, 1974, 1978. Christine Oakley Moleta died 1989.
Founded 1986 the Æolian Press.
Founded 1997 the Blackwood River Chamber Festival.
Retired 2000, set up the Fontecolombo Institute, near Bridgetown, Western Australia.
Since 1988 founded and directs the series "Italian Medieval and Renaissance Studies" for the Florentine publisher, Leo S. Olschki.
2004. Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana.
Published books include:
1974, The Early Poetry of Guittone d'Arezzo, London, Modern Humanities Research Association.
1980, Guinizzelli in Dante, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura.
1983, From St Francis to Giotto, Chicago, Franciscan Herald Press.
1984, (ed.) Patronage and Public in the Trecento, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki.
1994, (ed.) La gloriosa donna de la mente: A commentary on the Vita Nuova, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki.
1996, (translation) Luigi Pirandello: Sicilian Tales, Claremont, Æolian Press.
1998, Nuova Zelanda...sara' un paese vicino a Bologna, Messina, Il Gabbiano.
2004, (edition, translation and commentary) Umberto Saba: Poetry and Prose, Bridgetown, Æolian Press.
2012, From Stromboli to Aotearoa: Bartolo and Giuseppina Barnao, Christchurch, Canterbury University Press (in press).