Thomas Okey

Thomas Okey (1852–1935) was an expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France.^[1][2] In 1919, he became the first professor in Cambridge University under the Serena Professor of Italian title.

Works

• Venice and its Story (1904)^[3]
• Paris and its Story (1925)
• Dante's Purgatorio (translator).^[4]
• The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi^[5]
• The Story of Avignon (1926)
• The Little Flowers of St. Francis
• Selections From the Vita Nuova
• The Old Venetian Places and Old Venetian Folk
• A Basketful of Memories: An Autobiographical Sketch (1930)

References

1. Okey's first experience of the Italian language came when he attended the Extension Lectures at Toynbee Hall in the 1880s. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin, 1910.
2. "Thomas Okey". www.oxforddnb.com. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
3. Okey, Thomas (1904-01-01). Venice and Its Story. J. M. Dent & Company.
4. "Robert Hollander: Charles Singleton's Hidden Debts to Thomas Okey and John Sinclair". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
5. Okey, Thomas (2003-09-19). The Little Flowers of Saint Francis. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486431864.

External links

• Works written by or about Thomas Okey at Wikisource
• Works by Thomas Okey at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Thomas Okey at Internet Archive