Pasquale Toscano
person
3 mentions
1 recordings
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
↑3 vs the 6 months before
Scholar of Renaissance epic poetry and colleague of Wilson
Trend
Peak in the week of 3 Aug — 3 mentions across 1 series.
Moments
newest first · ▶ plays the momentSophie GeeSecret Life of Books · Emily Wilson, the Odyssey and Why Epics Matter · 3:39 · 3 Aug
…And now when Pasquale and I came up with this idea, we thought that the answer was going to be that it's this huge, capacious, sprawling form that is a way in which to reflect either overtly or obliquely on the politics and the political leadership of the time in which an epic has been written.…
Sophie GeeSecret Life of Books · Emily Wilson, the Odyssey and Why Epics Matter · 3:21 · 3 Aug
…I came up with this idea for this evening, which I can already tell is going to be a huge success, with Pascual Toscano, who is my friend and my one-time student, but that is long in the past.…
Sophie GeeSecret Life of Books · Emily Wilson, the Odyssey and Why Epics Matter · 2:30 · 3 Aug
…So I was joined by Emily and also by my friend and academic colleague Pasquale Toscano, who is an expert on epic poetry in the Renaissance period in England.…
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