Faculty of Modern and听Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building 海角社区 Sidgwick Avenue 海角社区 CB3 9DA United Kingdom
I completed my BA (cum laude) in Italian Literature and my MA (cum laude) in Modern Philology at the Universit脿 Cattolica in Milan. After focusing on the twentieth-century poet Margherita Guidacci for my Bachelor鈥檚 dissertation, I dedicated my Master鈥檚 thesis to the textual variants in the manuscript tradition of Petrarch鈥檚 Triumphs.
In 2019, I started my PhD in Italian at Selwyn College, 海角社区, with a project on early modern reference books, supervised by Prof. Abigail Brundin and funded by the Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 & Selwyn Sykes Scholarship.
Research:
My PhD research explores how reference books contributed to the organisation and transmission of literary knowledge through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With a main focus on Mirabellius鈥� Polyanthea and a comparative approach to other representative reference works, the thesis examines the working methods, sources and citational modes of early modern compilers.
My broader research interests include the ways of managing knowledge in different ages, textual criticism, stylistics and contemporary literature.
Scholarships/Prizes
Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 & Selwyn Sykes Scholarship
- IT8: Italian Literature, Thought, and Culture, 1500-1650
- Italian Classes for English faculty
- 2021 Bridging Course organised by Caius, Christ鈥檚 and King鈥檚 Colleges
Conference papers
- 鈥淔loriferis ut apes in saltibus. Gli strumenti dell鈥檌ntertestualit脿 rinascimentale鈥�, Nuove prospettive sull鈥檌ntertestualit脿 e sugli studi della ricezione. Il Rinascimento italiano, University of Lausanne (Lausanne, 10 December 2021)
- 鈥淪ulla genesi dei Trionfi. Uno studio del sistema stilistico petrarchesco鈥�, Laureatus in Urbe. Seminario annuale di Studi petrarcheschi, V edizione, organised by Roma Tre University, in collaboration with the Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway (Rome, 27-28 September 2021).
- 鈥淐icero through the Polyanthea and Its Compilers鈥�, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (online, 13-22 April 2021).
- 鈥淟a riscrittura delle fonti nella Polyanthea di Domenico Nano Mirabelli鈥�, La copia. Un dialogo tra arte, cinema, filologia, filosofia, letteratura e storia, Convegno dottorale interdisciplinare, University of Parma (online, 25-26 November 2020).
- 鈥淚l primo Triumphus cupidinis di Francesco Petrarca attraverso i collettori di varianti鈥�, Viaggiare nel testo. Scritture, libri e biblioteche nella storia. Seminari Aldo Manuzio, seminar organised by the CRELEB of the Universit脿 Cattolica of Milan (Sermoneta, 24-26 May 2019).
- 鈥淕li esordi poetici di Margherita Guidacci鈥�, Convegno di studi su Margherita Guidacci a venticinque anni dalla morte (Florence, 9-10 February 2018).
- 鈥淧ratiche compilatorie nella Savona rinascimentale: note sulla Polyanthea di Domenico Nano Mirabelli鈥�, Atti e Memorie della Societ脿 Savonese di Storia Patria, n.s., 57 (2021), 51-63.
- 鈥淪ullo stile de La sabbia e l鈥橝ngelo鈥�, in Margherita Guidacci. Preghiere per la notte dell鈥檃nima (Firenze: Edizioni Feeria, 2019), pp. 79-96.
