Renaissance Colloquium: Leah Whittington “Pity, Mercy, and Desire: Supplication and Erotic Psychology in Petrarch’s Africa and Rime Sparse”

Leah Whittington is Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University, where she researches and teaches early modern English literature, the survival and transmission of classical antiquity in the Renaissance, and literary interactions between England and Continental Europe. She is also Associate Editor of the “I Tatti Renaissance Library”.