This Quintessence of Dust
By John V. Falconieri
6 x 9 P.B. 96pgs.
$14.95
1-60052-034-1

John V. Falconieri received his doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan and subsequently taught literature, theater and cultural history at several universities. He received research scholarships from the Fulbright Commission and from the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. He has published books, scholarly articles, reviews, critiques, translations, college texts, manuscript editions, a novel and a play. He lectured in his fields of study at various universities and institutions. He founded John Cabot College in Rome and was its first President and Dean of Studies. He later became President of the American University of Rome from which he retired in l989.