Charles Speroni

Charles Speroni (1911-1984) was an Italian-American Romanist and Italianist born in Santa Fiora, Tuscany. He served as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at UCLA from 1968 until his retirement in 1979 and edited the journals The Italian Quarterly and The Modern Language Forum. His scholarly works include editions of Italian proverbs and studies on Italian wellerisms.