Peter Hainsworth

Peter Hainsworth was born into a working-class family in Bradford in 1942. He attended Bradford Grammar School before going to Oxford University in 1961, initially to study classics. He spent his working life as a lecturer in Itaian, first at Hull University, then Kent and finally Oxford, from where he retired in 2003. He has published widely on Italian literature, including translations of classic authors. He is married and lives in Oxford.