The University of Leeds

Post-Doc, Leeds Centre for Dante Studies

Other Affiliations: School of Advanced Study, University of London, The Warburg Institute
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Italianistica
University of Pisa, Studi Italianistici

Newton International Fellow

About

After a 4-years degree in Modern Literature at the University of Bologna, I took my PhD degree at the University of Pisa in 2009, defending a thesis on the MS Egerton 943 (British Library). In 2010 I have been Francis A. Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute (short-term) and I currently am Newton Postdoctoral International Fellow for the British Academy at the University of Leeds.

My primary interest is in Dante considered in his broad cultural, historical and scientific context, in the reception of the "Commedia", in its iconographic tradition, and in the philological problems concerning both the poem and its Trecento commentaries.

At the moment, I am working on the project "Franciscan Florentine Culture in the Age of Dante".