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Leonard Barkan Leonard Barkan is professor of comparative literature at Princeton University, where he has also been named director of the Society of Fellows. He is a scholar of Renaissance culture, both literary and visual, especially in its relations to antiquity. He has taught at Northwestern, Michigan, and New York universities, and has been director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. His books include The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism (1986), and Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture (1999), the latter having won prizes from Phi Beta Kappa, the Modern Language Association, the College Art Association, the American Comparative Literature Association, PEN and Architectural Digest. His current work includes a set of essays on aesthetics and pleasure; he is
also under contract to Farrar, Straus for a book entitled Satyr Square,
which is a memoir concerning Italy, art, literature, food, wine, and
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