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.

Portrait de Thomas OKEY

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.


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