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I work on Latin language and literature, including the postclassical developments of the Latin literary tradition; moreover, I am interested in the reception of Graeco-Roman antiquity in later cultural contexts. My research especially focuses on late medieval and neo-Latin literature and on the reception of ancient Greek and Latin texts in the late Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. Alongside writing on the reception of Lucan's听Bellum Civile听in fourteenth-century Italy, I have been working on the Latin works of Italian Renaissance authors such as Albertino Mussato and Francesco Petrarch, and I am also interested in unpublished Latin epic from fifteenth-century Italy. During my post-doc, I have expanded the scope of my research to consider neo-Latin poetry from early modern Britain, viewed in relation to the earlier Italian neo-Latin tradition.
Biography:
For my BA (2007-10) and MA (2010-12) I studied Classics at the University of Padua, where I also attended the听Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori听(the School of Excellence of the University of Padua). I completed a PhD in Italian Studies and Medieval Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (2012-17). During my PhD, I was a DAAD visiting scholar at LMU Munich, Medieval Latin Institute (Spring 2016) and a visiting researcher at KCL, Classics department (Fall 2016). From July 2017, I have been working as a postdoctoral research associate on Dr. Victoria Moul's听Leverhulme-funded project "Latin Poetry in English Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, c. 1550-1700", and I have been based听at 果冻影院 from February 2019.
Selected publications:
Critical edition of Mussato's听De Lite听inter Naturam et Fortunam; under contract with SISMEL 鈥斕�Edizione Nazionale dei Testi Mediolatini d'Italia听(the submitted manuscript has been approved for publication in Autumn 2019).
鈥楲ucan and Virgil: from Dante to Petrarch (and Boccaccio)鈥�.听International Journal of the Classical Tradition听27 (2020), pp. 1-22 (published online at听).
鈥樷�淎s Lucan says鈥�: Dante's Reuse of the听Bellum Civile听in the听Monarchia听and the Political Epistles鈥�.听Mediaevalia. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies Worldwide听40 (2019), pp. 81-106.
鈥楶etrarch's Lucan and the Ambiguities of Ancient Heroism鈥�.听Humanistica. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Early Renaissance Studies听13.2 (2018) [in press].
鈥楢lbertino Mussato: ultime riflessioni sulla poesia鈥�. In听鈥楳oribus antiquis sibi me fecere poetam鈥�. Albertino Mussato nel VII centenario dell'incoronazione poetica (Padova 1315-2015), edited by Rino Modonutti and Enrico Zucchi. Florence: Sismel, 2017, pp. 133-50.
鈥業l Cesare di Lucano, da Dante a Manzoni鈥�.听Intersezioni听36/3 (2016), pp. 437-42.
鈥楢 Philosophical Quarrel among听Auctoritates: Mussato鈥檚听De Lite inter Naturam et Fortunam听and its Classical and Medieval Sources鈥�.听Italia Medioevale e Umanistica听55 (2014), pp. 71-102.
鈥楶etrarca e l'agiografia camaldolese: la fonte della vita di san Romualdo nel听Legendario听di Nicol貌 Malerbi鈥�.听Hagiographica听21 (2014), pp. 179-96.
鈥楪iurisprudenza da favola. Note sul lessico giuridico delle听Metamorfosi听di Apuleio鈥�.听Lexis听29 (2011), pp. 301-24.