Cook, James Wyatt

James Wyatt Cook retired as Langbo Trustees' Professor of English at Michigan's Albion College in 2000. He has written about Chaucer, Lorenzo de' Medici, and Petrarch. His verse translations from the Italian include Petrarch's Canzoniere, Lorenzo de' Medici's II Commento, Antonia Tannini Pulci's religious drama, and selections from the verse of Isabella Andreini. He has also translated selections from the poems of the contemporary Indian poet Srimati Lal into Italian.