Curriculum

Curriculum

Since 2011 Full Professor of the University of Messina (sector L-Fil-Let/13, Philology of Italian Literature) at the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations, where she teaches Medieval and Humanistic Latin Literature (for the three-year Bachelor’s Degree in Literature) and Italian Philological Research Methods (for the Master’s Degree in Medieval and Modern Italian Literature). Since 2016 Full Professor in sector L-Fil-Let/10, she also teaches Italian Literature for the three-year Bachelor's Degree in Literature. She is coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Medieval and Modern Italian Literature and a member of the administrative board of the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations. She is a member of the administrative board of the Centro internazionale di studi umanistici and of the administrative board of the Doctorate in ‘Historical, Archaeological and Philological Sciences’ at the University of Messina. She is a member of the commission for the Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Francesco Petrarca and a member of the scientific committee of the series “Umanesimo dei moderni” of the Centro internazionale di studi umanistici. She is also joint editor of the journal “Studi medievali e umanistici” (formerly “Studi umanistici”), where she has been a member of the editorial board since 1991. She is part of the editorial staff of the University of Messina’s “Peloro. Rivista del Dottorato in Scienze storiche, archeologiche e filologiche” (2016-; peer reviewed journal). She has also worked on the editorial board of “Quaderni petrarcheschi”, and has contributed to “Quaderni medievali” and “Bollettino di studi latini”. She has dealt mainly with philological humanism, publishing works on Guarino, Raffaele Regio, Merula and Poliziano. In the case of Poliziano, she is involved in the publication of his Miscellanea and Praelectiones in a project promoted by the Centro internazionale di studi umanistici in Messina. A particular field of interest is the study of Petrarch’s work, to which she has dedicated various papers, also editing for the Petrarca del Centenario (promoted by the commission for the Edizione Nazionale delle Opere del Petrarca) the De viris universale; l'editio maior dell'opera (2008), with an extensive introduction and commentary. The edition was the subject of international academic discussion (see reviews by P. Ertl Univ. Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, and M. Cavagna in Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes). On the works of Petrarch in vulgar Italian, she has focused on the editorial and interpretative problem of the “Triumphus Fame”, reconsidering the relations between drafts and vulgate on new foundations. Her most recent research has focused on the work of Giovanni Pascoli, whose interweaving of the Italian poetry of “Myricae” and first attempts at Latin versification she has dealt with in a monograph. She has participated in numerous national and international conferences. She has taken part in projects of relevant national interest financed by the Ministry of Universities and Research (PRIN 1997-2003, 2005, 2007, 2010). She is a member of the Società dei filologi della letteratura italiana and an ordinary member of the Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti.