Man’s body found floating off coast of Martha’s Vineyard
The discovery followed a busy weekend of rescue missions for the Coast Guard, said Lieutenant Bryan Swintek, the Coast Guard Command Center chief for Southeastern New England. The station responded to 23 incidents between Friday and Sunday from Narragansett Bay through Nantucket Sound.
Body found floating off Martha’s Vineyard is identified
"Man found off Martha’s Vineyard was prominent scholar" by Trisha Thadani | Globe Correspondent July 16, 2014
The man found floating off Martha’s Vineyard on Monday morning was a prominent professor at Columbia University in New York and a scholar of Italian literature.
Luciano Rebay, 86, of Tisbury, had a long and fruitful career that lasted more than 40 years as a professor at the university, according to a statement Wednesday from the school’s department of Italian.
Rebay taught a range of courses and wrote several books on modern and contemporary Italian poetry — a topic that was the primary focus for most of his career, according to a family member who asked not to be identified.
Upon his retirement from Columbia in 2005, he was designated the Giuseppe Ungaretti professor emeritus of Italian Literature.
A fisherman found Rebay off the coast of West Tisbury on Monday morning, Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said Tuesday. The cause and manner of the scholar’s death is unclear, but authorities are not considering it suspicious....
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