Francesco Marco Aresu earned his Ph.D. in Italian literature (with a secondary field in Classical Philology) from Harvard University. He graduated in Letters from the Universit脿 degli Studi di Cagliari in Sardinia, and has Masters from Stanford University and Indiana University.
His areas of expertise are Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, manuscript studies and history of the book, medieval and humanistic philology, Sardinian literature, textual criticism, and literary theory.
He has published on Dante鈥檚 intertextuality, the first illustrated incunable of Dante鈥檚 Commedia, Italian metrics and metricology, Boccaccio鈥檚 Teseida, Petrarca鈥檚 sestinas, Baroque theater, Folengo鈥檚 metatextuality, Alberti鈥檚 early works, and figuralism in literature. He edited and translated eighteenth-century Latin hymns for the Centro di studi filologici sardi. He is editor for the Petrarchive and associate editor for Heliotropia. His first book,听听came out in 2023 with the University of Notre Dame Press.
Before joining the Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies at the University of 桃子视频sylvania, he taught Italian and Medieval Studies at Wesleyan University.
Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
M.A. in Italian, Stanford University 听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
M.A. in Italian Studies, Indiana University (Bloomington)
B.A. in Letters, Universit脿 degli studi di Cagliari
- Italian Language and Literature
- Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio 听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
- Medieval and Renaissance Literature
- Manuscript Studies and History of the Book
- Medieval and Humanistic Philology
- Literary Theory and Criticism
- Textual Criticism
- Sardinian Literature
Manuscript Poetics: Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian Literature (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming in 2023)
鈥淎 Dantean (and Alfierian?) Incunable in the Olin Library at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT).鈥 In B. Arduini, I. Magni, and J. Todorovi膰 (eds.), Interpretation and Visual Poetics in Medieval and Early Modern Texts (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2021), 147-162
鈥淚ntertestualit脿 dantesche: un鈥檃llusione a Ennio?鈥 Romanic Review 112, no. 1 (2021): 85-96
鈥淯n manoscritto del Teseida conservato a Philadelphia e un nuovo frammento del cantare della Guerra di Troia.鈥 Medioevo letterario d鈥橧talia 15 (2018 [2019]): 141-153 (with M. Cursi, Universit脿 degli studi di Napoli 鈥楩ederico II鈥)
鈥淎ntonio Da Tempo and Gidino da Sommacampagna.鈥 In P. E. Szarmach (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2019)
鈥淰isual Discourse in Petrarch鈥檚 Sestinas.鈥 Mediaevalia 39 (2018): 185-215
鈥La centaura di Giovan Battista Andreini tra teatro e teoria.鈥 In F. Fantuzzi (ed.), Tales of Unfulfilled Times: Saggi in onore di Dario Calimani da parte dei suoi allievi (Venice: Edizioni Ca鈥 Foscari, 2017), 8-30
鈥淎 New Manuscript of Leon Battista Alberti鈥檚 Early Works: Cambridge (Mass.), Houghton Library, Typ 1086.鈥 Studi di erudizione e di filologia italiana 4 (2015): 31-39 (with M. Romani Mistretta, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
鈥淧ratiche metatestuali nel Baldus.鈥 In M. Scalabrini (ed.), Folengo in America (Padua: Longo, 2012), 97-119
鈥淔igura.鈥 In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2012), 485-486 (with D. Marno, UC Berkeley)
鈥淢odalit脿 iconica e istanza metatestuale nella sestina petrarchesca: 鈥淢ia benigna fortuna e 鈥檒 viver lieto鈥 (Rvf 颁颁颁齿齿齿滨滨).鈥 Textual Cultures 5, no. 2 (2010): 11-25
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