Lokaj, Rodney

Currículum abreviado

Rodney Lokaj holds a degree in Italian studies from Swinburne University, Australia, a laurea in lettere from the Università degli Studi di Perugia, and a Ph.D. in medieval Italian and Latin literature from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He taught medieval and Humanistic Latin literature at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” for many years before being called to the chair of Italian philology at the Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore”, Sicily.

Of his many publications it may be of interest to mention that his English-Latin edition of Petrarch’s Ascent of Mt Ventoux is considered essential reading in the Cambridge Companion to Petrarch, and his latest book, which came out in the United States in 2015, a critical princeps edition of the Latin works by Baldassarre Castiglione and Domizio Falcone, is about to be published in Italian translation by L’Erma di Bretscheider, Rome, with newly-discovered works by both authors.

Among his many current activities, Professor Lokaj leads an international team of researchers cataloguing a recently-discovered early-modern Franciscan library in Sicily, and collaborates with the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana on an epic Latin poem recently discovered on the Beata Colomba from Rieti.

He sits on both the editorial board of the journal, Linguistica e Letteratura (Rome-Pisa), and the

executive council of the American Association of Neo-Latin Studies. He is a member of many learned societies including the Renaissance Society of America, the Società Dantesca Italiana, the Società di Filologi della Letteratura Italiana, and the Accademia degli Ottusi. He is a nominated member of the Deputazione di Storia Patria dell’Umbria and has recently returned from a visiting professorship at the University of California at Berkeley.

 

Publications

 

Books/Editions

 

1. All’ombra dell’ilice nera sive Reminiscenze classiche nella Capinera di Verga, Quaderni della “Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale” 7, Roma, Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 2004, 138. ISBN 88-8476-035-6

– Reviewed by Luisa Carrer in MLR 101.1, 2006, 265-267

– Discussed in “Nuove prospettive nella critica Verghiana” by Davide Colombo, in Filologia e Critica, fasc. 3, anno 32, sett.-dic- 2007, 439-446

 

2. Dante Alighieri Le opere latine, a cura di L. Coglievina, R. J. Lokaj e G. Savino, Introduzione di M. Pastore Stocchi, Salerno Editrice, Roma 2005, Monarchia a cura di R. J. Lokaj, 249-553, 889-892, 916-940, e Epistole a cura di R. J. Lokaj, 555-735, 892-893, 940-946. ISBN 88-8402-490-0

Reviewed by: –     Cesare Segre, Corriere della Sera, 15 luglio 2005, p.39 http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2005/luglio/15/GLI_ESPERIMENTI_DANTE_co_9_050715010.shtml

• Lanza- L. DeSantis, La Rassegna della Letteratura Italiana (2008) 503-505

 

3. Petrarch’s Ascent of Mount Ventoux. The Familiaris IV 1. New commented edition with Latin text, translation and introduction by Rodney Lokaj, Edizioni dell’Ateneo, Scriptores Latini, Roma-Pisa 2006, pages 215 ISBN 88-8476-028-3

– Reviewed by – Luigi Silvano, Università degli Studi di Torino, luigi.silvano@unito.it, in

The Medieval Review (TMR) 20.03.2008

– Luciana Furbetta, La Rassegna della Letteratura Italiana 1 (2008), 216

– Cited as essential reading in The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch ed. by A. Russell Ascoli & U. Falkeid, C.U.P., 2015, p. 243

– cited as authoritative critical secondary source, inter alia, in:

Ryan E. Gregg, Panorama, Power, and History. Vasari and Stradano’s City Views in the Palazzo Vecchio, PhD dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 2008, pp.143-44

Margaret Healy, Shakespeare, Alchemy and the Creative Imagination. The Sonnet and A Lover’s Complaint, C.U.P. Cambridge 2011, p. 158

Alexander Lee, Petrarch and St. Augustine: Classical Scholarship, Christian Theology and        the Origins of the Renaissance in Italy, Brill 2012, pp. 114, 149

Thomas E. Peterson, Petrarch’s Fragmenta. The Narrative and Theological Unity of Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2016, pp.105 sgg.

4. Two Renaissance Friends: Baldassarre Castiglione, Domizio Falcone, and Their Neo-Latin Poetry, Critical edition with Introduction, Commentary and English Translation by Rodney Lokaj, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series, vol. 466, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona 2015, ISBN 978-0-86698-519-2, pp.385

– presented by prof. Emore Paoli, chair of medieval and Humanistic Latin literature, Tor Vergata, prof. Fabio Stok, chair of classical Latin literature, Tor Vergata, and prof. Roberto Deidier, chair of comparative literature, Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore”, at the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, Piazza dell’Orologio 4 – Rome, 9 Dec. 2015

– presented by Prof. Andrea Canova, professor of Italian philology at the Università Cattolica di Milano, and Prof. Giorgio Bernardi Perini, professor emeritus of Latin literature at the Università degli Studi di Padua, during a roundtable conference on the same book and its authors held at the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana, Mantua, 5 February, 2016

– presented at Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, November 2016

Reviewed by:  – C. Kallendorf,  Neo-Latin News  (Seventeenth-Century News), 2016 Winter 74, 3&4, pp. 163-65

“At first blush, this is a curious book – not an anthology of poems by several authors, nor an edition of the works of one Neo-Latin writer, but a sort of diptych, an edition of the poetry of two men, one famous, the other completely unknown. But as Lokaj explains, the connection between the two is very real and leads us in several totally unexpected, and rewarding, directions. […] All in all, this book does a nice job of performing one of the most important duties of Neo-Latin scholarship, the rescue and presentation of material that was important in its own day but has dropped aside since then.”

• Midwest Book Review vol.15, no. 7, July 2016: Vogel’s Bookshelf, http://www.midwestbookreview.com/mbw/jul_16.htm

“[…] Enhanced with the inclusion of an Introduction that includes ‘Manuscripts and editions of Castiglione’s Works’ and ‘Manuscripts and Editions of Falcone’s Works’; a fourteen page Bibliography; and a seventeen page Index, “Two Renaissance Friends: Baldassarre Castiglione, Domizio Falcone, and their Neo-Latin Poetry” is an impressively informed and informative work of meticulous scholarship and unreservedly recommended for college and university library Renaissance Studies collections in general, and Neo-Latin Poetry supplemental studies reading lists in particular […]”

• Nerbano, Quaderni d’Italianistica 2017

“[…] Ciò che rende questo libro particolarmente apprezzabile è però l’approccio complessivo alla vicenda umana e intellettuale dei due scrittori. Infatti, non limitandosi alla trattazione delle mere questioni ecdotiche e letterarie, Rodney Lokaj coniuga efficacemente la critica ai testi a un’attenta ricostruzione microstorica del contesto, tale da fornire, particolarmente nella pregevole introduzione, un vivido spaccato della vita e della cultura delle corti italiane del primo cinquecento, illuminando così d’una luce inedita le figure dei due protagonisti […]”

• Stok, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.06.05

In this book, Rodney Lokaj publishes the Latin poems of Baldassare Castiglione and Domizio Falcone. Of these two authors, only Castiglione is well known, thanks to his Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano): a work written between 1508 and 1528, when it was published. This work gives an influential portrait of the perfect courtier and long served as a model for civilized and polished behaviour.[…] Lokaj also offers a new interpretation of the elegy in which Castiglione imagines his wife Ippolita Torelli writing to him to complain about the absence of her husband who is away from home and attending to unspecified duties in Rome. Previously the elegy had been interpreted as a learned imitation of Ovid’s Heroides, the main source of the poem together with Catullus and Propertius, both frequently echoed by Castiglione. Lokaj shows that while the elegy seems to depict a tender and affectionate wife and a husband yearning to return home, several clues present a very different picture, showing Ippolita as a petulant wife and Baldassare as a man using his duties in Rome and at the Papal Court as an excuse for not returning home at all. […] The edition is philologically satisfying: Lokaj has collated all the known manuscripts and editions and gives the variants in the apparatus (but that on Falcone is unusual). […] In conclusion, Lokaj’s edition is a brilliant contribution to the study of the Neo-Latin poetry of the sixteenth century.

See complete review at http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2017/2017-06-05.html

See also Ronald L. Martinez, Brown University, in «Renaissance Quarterly» LXXI/2, p. 670, at:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/699041?journalCode=rq

Annali d’Italianistica, vol. 36, 2018 pp. 548-551

                                   Loren Eadie, University of Wisconsin, Madison

http://www.ibiblio.org/annali/2018/bookshelf_2018.pdf

In his recent study, Two Renaissance Friends: Baldassarre Castiglione, Domizio Falcone, and their Neo-Latin Poetry, Rodney Lokaj sheds light on two Renaissance humanists through annotated editions of their often-ignored or even forgotten works. By thoroughly examining Castiglione’s Carmina, the Neo-Latin poetry that preceded and accompanied the creation of his vernacular masterpiece, Il libro del cortegiano (published 1528), Lokaj adds new dimensions to our understanding of Castiglione, the author and the man of the early-16th century who through his political acumen and erudition became a member of the prestigious courts of Urbino and Rome as well as friend to the luminaries of the period. Castiglione’s Latin poems, however, are only half of the equation. As Lokaj makes clear in his introduction, the Latin poetry of Castiglione would not be complete without a serious consideration of the poetry of Castiglione’s friend, Domizio Falcone. Their association in life continued in the manuscript tradition, as at least three of the primary witnesses for Castiglione’s Latin poetry also contain works by Falcone (Lokaj 43–50). Lokaj’s introduction to the two collected Carmina establishes the need for further examination of these texts both to enrich studies of Castiglione and also of the Italian Renaissance in general. Notwithstanding the wealth of scholarship devoted to Castiglione and his vernacular works, scant attention has been paid to his Latin poems. Moreover, as Lokaj argues, Castiglione’s person and reputation have suffered from a “veiling effect” that essentially conflates the humanist with the characteristics of his greatest work, Il libro del cortegiano. Instead of a fully realized individual with diverse interests, political ambitions, and personal flaws, centuries of scholars tended to paint a portrait of Castiglione with the same idealizing brush that he used in re-creating the perfect court of Urbino (Lokaj 11–13).

The Latin works tell a different story. On the one hand, the Castiglione of the Latin poems does share many characteristics with Il libro del Cortegiano. For instance, his assemblage of classical references, maintains Lokaj, is the embodiment of the sprezzatura expected of Castiglione’s ideal courtier. The carmen which heralded Castiglione’s entry into the Accademia Romana, “De Elisabella Gonzaga canente” (1503–1504), goes beyond its Virgilian precedent blending together and even “superimposing” multiple sources with seeming effortlessness, with the result that Castiglione adds “new dimensions to the atmosphere” (Lokaj 72). Similarly, shades of Il libro del Cortegiano and its attention to the figurative arts come to the fore in the ekphrastic poems “In Cupidinem Praxitelis” (1505) and “Cleopatra” (1512–1513).

On the other hand, Castiglione’s Latin poems also offer a less-than-virtuous (but no less ingenious) portrait of the author. Castiglione is an unfaithful husband who woos many Roman girlfriends, as indicated by the poems “Ad puellam in litore ambulantem” and “Ad eandem” (both composed between 1512–1513), among others. He has likewise abandoned his wife Ippolita and their children in the family home in Casatico, Mantua. Castiglione is well aware of his faults, penning a Heroides-inspired letter from his wife’s perspective (“Balthassaris Castilonis elegia, qua fingit Hippolyten suam ad se ipsum scribentem,” post August 1519) in which he denounces himself for failing to leave the pleasures of Rome and return to his familial duties (Lokaj 138). The Latin poems also offer glimpses into the bawdier side of Castiglione and the literature of the Italian Renaissance, as represented by the poetic genre of Priapeia. Castiglione composed poems which incorporated a “Priapic nudge and wink,” including multiple double-entendres, sexual language, and playful tones (Lokaj 68). The early poem “De eadem viragine” (1499) was specifically “expunged from the canon” due to its “play-on-words at v. 4, whereby telum is a synonym for both sword (gladius) and the virile member,” a joke which was deemed unsuitable by later scholars for an epigram on war (Lokaj 68). Such instances of Priapic poetry connect Castiglione’s Carmina further to those of Falcone, and also illustrate another facet of the humanist movement, namely the use of such Latinity “to entertain a […] learned society of acutely perceptive humanists trained and willing to read such poetry on very different levels” (Lokaj 68). Lokaj’s study therefore fills the very real need for a more holistic approach to Castiglione’s literary works.

In the case of Falcone, Lokaj has resurrected a figure of the Italian Renaissance and restored him to his proper place in the Neo-Latin canon. Other than serving as the tutor for Castiglione’s younger brother and Falcone’s untimely death in 1505, very little of Falcone’s biography is known (Lokaj 29–30). Lokaj’s treatment of Falcone’s Carmina, for which he provides a stemma of witnesses and other philological information, as well as detailed notes, is essentially an editio princeps of the work, arranged thematically due to the dearth of information regarding the dates of composition (Lokaj 42). Many poems are dedicated to an unknown beloved (called Paula), others to noted historical figures, including Castiglione himself, and finally there is an entire section of poetry dedicated to Priapus, with all the ribald trappings associated with the genre of Priapeia. Even without the strong associations with that of Castiglione, Falcone’s Carmina offers many interesting points of study for scholars of the Renaissance. Students of historical figures and courtly life can investigate Falcone’s songs further for references to minor figures left out of the history books, such the noble women whose skills rival those of the men at court (“Ad Blancam Mariam Stangam”). Falcone, too, engaged in ekphrastic poetry, and art historians might appreciate in particular his detailed description of a now-lost Mantegna painting (“Falco Mantuanus de pictura”).

 

When compared to the attention afforded by Lokaj to Castiglione’s Carmina, in which he introduces each poem with extensive historical details, discussions on the literary sources incorporated by Castiglione, and stylistic examinations, Lokaj’s treatment of Falcone’s work may leave readers wishing for more. Most of Falcone’s poems in fact lack critical introduction or context, although the notes offer insights into literary references. In brief, Lokaj’s study is an excellent addition to Castiglione scholarship and will hopefully influence a new wave of examination into Falcone and his poetry.

 

5. Bruno the Carthusian († 1101) and his Mortuary Roll: Studies, Text, and Translation, Volume Editors: Hartmut Beyer, Gabriela Signori, and Sita Steckel, Latin-English Translation by Rodney Lokaj, Series Europa sacra, Vol. no° 16, Brepols 2014. Published also as an e-book

7. Amicitia nel Rinascimento. I carmi di Baldassare Castiglione e Domizio Falcone, di Rodney Lokaj, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2018. See:

http://www.lerma.it/index.php?pg=SchedaTitolo&key=00013254

8. I Sette Discorsi di Evandro Campello, Accademico Salottiero (1612-1621), Archivio di Stato di Perugia, Spoleto 2019 ISBN 978-88-99613-15-0

24 May 2019, the State Archives of Perugia elect Lokaj’s critical edition I sette discorsi di Evandro Campello, accademico salottiero (1612-1621) as book of the year to be presented during the ministerial event “Il Maggio dei libri”. Coordinator: Andrea Tomasini, journalist; speakers Luigi Rambotti, director of State Archives of Perugia; Erminia Irace, professor of medieval history, University of Perugia

 

Forthcoming Books

 

1. La lingua del Paradiso dante: una crociata francescana, Le Lettere, Firenze, 2020
2. The Feisty Women of Assisi, Clare and Her Extraordinary Times, Great Britain
3. Lucretius Caro: His Italian Legacy

 

Articles

 

Articles published in refereed journals

 

1. “Cerva fugiens: la poligenesi di un motivo petrarchesco”, in Il Veltro Rivista della Civiltà Italiana 1-2 (1996), pp. 168-72

 

2. “Il volgare illustre quale trames dantesco nel ritorno a Dio”, in L’Alighieri, Rassegna bibliografica dantesca 12, Nuova Serie, luglio-dic., Anno XXXIX (1998), pp. 54-82

 

3. “Petrarca e l’ideologia compostellana”, in Compostella – Rivista del centro italiano di studi compostellani, 24 (1998), pp. 33-39

 

4. “Petrarca – alter Franciscus, ovvero un’ascesa francescana del Monte Ventoso”, in Il Veltro Rivista della Civiltà Italiana 5-6 (1998), pp. 465-479

 

5. “Sul Dedalo di Francesco Petrarca”, in Studi Mediolatini e Volgari, 44 (2000), pp. 213-220

 

6. “Mary Magdalene, one of Petrarch’s muses?”, in Spunti e ricerche, 15 (2000), pp. 43-52

 

7. “A Senecan quote in Tourneur’s The Revenger’s Tragedy (1607)”, in Il Giornale Italiano di

Filologia, vol.52, 1-2 (2000), pp. 275-322

 

8. “Camilla, l’Italia e il Veltro”, in Critica del Testo, III/ 2 (2000), pp. 665-677

 

9. “Narrative technique in Petrarch’s Familiares”, in Linguistica e Letteratura, Vol. 24, 1.-2 (1999), pp. 63-94

 

10. “Il nome di Francesco Petrarca”, in il Nome nel testo, II-III (2000-2001), pp. 287-290

 

11. “La Cleopatra napoletana: Giovanna d’Angiò nelle Familiares di Petrarca”, in Il Giornale          Storico della Letteratura Italiana, Vol.177, fasc. 580 (2000), pp. 481-521

 

12. “Origen between Dante and Petrarch”, in Adamantius, 7 (2001), pp. 132-153, cited in

Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, ad annum 2001

 

1.  “Manzoni, lettore di Dante in chiave comica”, Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale 1 (2002), pp. 89-150

 

1. “Il veltro dantesco quale anagramma di ‘ultore’”, Il Giornale Italiano di Filologia LIV 1

(2002) 15 maggio, pp. 15-27

 

1. “Gianni Schicchi e il cavallo di Troia”, in Linguistica e letteratura, 27 (2002), pp. 71-79

 

16. “Analogie strutturali e narrative tra i Rvf e le Familiares: seu le valigie di Petrarca”, in Critica del testo, VI/1 (2003), pp. 421-437

 

17. “De sotio, sive Petrarch’s use of Livy in Fam. IV 1”, Euphrosyne, 33 (2005), pp. 53-65

 

18. “Il calamo rustico di Petrarca: ancora sul Virgilio Ambrosiano”, Italianistica, 34, 1 (2005) pp. 51-62

 

19. “Perdere tempo nelle Familiares di Petrarca”, in L’esperienza poetica del tempo e il tempo della storia. Studi sull’opera di Francesco Petrarca, a cura di Carla Chiummo e Anatole Pierre Fuksas, Cassino, Università di Cassino, 2005, pp. 201-216 ISBN 88-8489-007-1

 

20. “Strepitumque Acherontis avari: Petrarchan descent to the Hades of Lucretius”, in Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale 48/2 (2006) pp. 339-385

 

1. “Stupor mundi re-addressed”, in Critica del testo, XII / 2-3 (2009) pp. 113-121

 

1.  “L’inventività liturgica di Chiara d’Assisi”, in Frate Francesco 2 (2010) pp. 47-63

23. “Il Defensor pacis di Marsilio da Padova: fra il serio e il faceto”, Giornale Italiano di Filologia 62 (2010) pp. 225-252

 

24. “Falco Mantuanus de pictura,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae 20 (Studi e Testi 484) (2014) pp. 577-588

 

25. “L’emergenza di un’ars dictaminis dantesca – l’Epistola II”, in Studi Danteschi 79 (2014) pp.1-38

 

26. “Ghostly and Polemical: Castiglione’s Prosopopoeia Ludovici Pici Mirandulani”, in Linguistica e Letteratura 40 (2015), pp. 157-185

 

27. “Ricordi di scuola” in Linguistica e Letteratura 40 (2015), pp. 274-75

 

1. “A l’amico mio, e non de la ventura”, prefazione al volume in memoriam di Giorgio Brugnoli, Linguistica e Letteratura 41, 1-2 (2016), pp. 9-11

 

1. “The golden Nearchus or the case of thwarted philological method”, in Linguistica e Letteratura 41, 1-2 (2016), pp. 157-72

 

1. “La latinità della Colombeide”, in Beata Colomba da Rieti (Rieti, 1467-Perugia, 1501). Agiografia, culto, iconografia, a cura di G. Casagrande et al., Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2019, pp. 1-90

 

Articles published in Conference Proceedings

 

1. “San Francesco in Petrarca ovvero, verso una semiologia francescana in Petrarca”, in Atti del Convegno Nazionale San Francesco e il Francescanesimo nella Letteratura Italiana dal XIII al XV secolo. Assisi 10-12 dic., 1999, ed. by S. Da Campagnola & P. Tuscano, Accademia Properziana del Subasio, Assisi 2001, pp. 167-193,

—————-reprinted in Montefalco, Periodico dell’Accademia di Montefalco, XVIII/1, 2004, pp. 11-38

 

2. “L’epistola consolatoria di Petrarca a Roberto d’Angiò de obitu Dyonisii (Epyst. I, 13)”, in Dionigi da Borgo Sansepolcro fra Petrarca e Boccaccio (Atti del Convegno, Sansepolcro, 11-12 febbraio 2000), ed. by F. Suitner, Petruzzi Editore, Città di Castello, 2001, pp. 177-195

 

3. “Tracce origeniane in Petrarca”, Origeniana Octava: Origen and the Alexandrian Tradition / Origene e la tradizione Alessandrina. Papers of the 8th International Origen Congress, Pisa, 27–31 August 2001. Edited by L. Perrone in collaboration with P. Bernardino and D. Marchini. 2 Volumes. Pp. xxvi + x + 1406. (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 164A and B.) Leuven: Leuven University Press and Peeters, 2003, pp. 1229-1250

 

4. “Il calamus ispirato nelle Familiari”, Motivi e Forme delle Familiari di Francesco Petrarca, Gargnano del Garda, 2-5 ottobre, 2002, Claudia Berra (ed.), Università degli Studi di Milano, Quaderni di Acme 57, Cisalpino Istituto Editoriale Universitario, 2003, pp. 399-418

 

5. “Gherardo dans les Familiares de Pétrarque”, in Les Cahiers de l’Humanisme, vol.3, Pétrarque épistolier (2004), pp. 45-66

 

6. 2004 “Vediamo se sei filologo”, Giornata di Studi in onore di Giorgio Brugnoli, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, 24 maggio 2004. Paper presented: “Suoi studi petrarcheschi e umanistici”, published in Giorgio Brugnoli, Studi di filologia e letteratura latina, a cura di Silvia Conte e Fabio Stok. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 30, Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2004, pp. 143-154
7. “Un’officina umanistica: l’epistolografia fra Petrarca e Boccaccio”, in Petrarca e Boccaccio. Modelli letterari fra Medioevo e Umanesimo. Atti della giornata di studi, St Andrews, St Mary’s College 29 ottobre 1999, A. Cipollone & Carlo Caruso (eds.), Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria 2005, pp. 103-130

 

8. “O fra’ Ranaldo”, in Iacopone Poeta. Atti del Convegno di studi (Stroncone – Todi, 10-11 settembre 2005), Franco Suitner (ed.), Bulzoni Editore, Roma 2007, pp. 31-52

 

9. “Dante’s Comic Reappraisal of Petrine Primacy”, in Critica del testo XIV/2 (2011) pp. 109-146

 

10. “Early Franciscan Preaching: an anomaly in Canon Law”, in A Chosen Race, A Royal Priesthood, a Holy Nation: Aspects of the Priesthood of Baptism. Proceedings of the Eighth Fota International Liturgical Conference, 2015, Smenos Publications, Cork 2016 ISBN 978-1-910388-22-8, pp. 249-78

 

1. “Evandro Campello, accademico Ottuso, davanti al vescovo Barberini, ape – re”, in I Cesi di Acquasparta, la Dimora di Federico il Linceo e le Accademie in Umbria nell’Età Moderna, a cura di Giorgio de Petra e Paola Monacchia, Deputazione di Storia Patria, Atti e nuovi contributi degli incontri di studio ad Acquasparta (TR) Palazzo Cesi 26 settembre – 24 ottobre 2015, Perugia 2017, pp.797-814

 

1. “L’Accademia degli Ottusi e il Fondo Campello: api, papi e umanisti”, Associazione Italianisti (2018)

 

1. “Garcilaso’s Debt to Mantuan Humanism”, in Contexto Latino y vulgar de Garcilaso en Nápoles Redes de relaciones de humanistas y poetas (manuscritos, cartas, academias), a cura di E. Fosalba e G. De La Torre Ávalos, Peter Lang, Bern 2018, a pp. 97-116

 

Articles published in miscellanea

 

1. “Anche il Clitunno, nell’itinerare di Byron alla ricerca di inconsueti antieroi”, in Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Perugia, vol. XXIX, nuova serie XV (1991/92), pp. 187-96

 

2. “Petrarca ferito nella selva virgiliana”, in Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Perugia, I Studi Classici, Vol. 31, nuova serie 17, 1993-1995, pp. 71-131

 

3. “L’Edizione Vaticana della Divina Commedia allestita sub aegida Marini (1817-19)”, in Gaetano Marini (1742-1815), protagonista della cultura europea. Scritti per il bicentenario della morte, a cura di Marco Buonocore, Città del Vaticano, Studi e Testi 492, Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana 2015, pp.882-913

 

4. Il De apibus di Evandro Campello (1612), editio princeps con commento e note, 52-3 «Spoletium», 2015, pp. 124-137

 

5. “E l’arte si fece, poi, commento: figura ed esegesi nelle opere scultoree di Roberto Cremesini”, in Cremesini scultore e medaglista Un Artista ritrovato, a cura di Girolamo Zampieri, «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, Roma 2018, pp. 205-226

 

Articles published in non-academic settings

 

1. “La Flaminia e il pellegrinaggio a Compostella”, in Luoghi del corpo e dello spirito – Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia, ed. by Franco Troiani, 1999, Spoleto, pp. 19-21

 

2. “Dante lives again in Umbria: the German painter, Bernhard Gillessen, comments on Dante’s divine text”, bilingual edition ( – Eng.), published on line by Art Studio, www.artstudio.it 1998

 

3. “The reception of Petrarch in Renaissance Scotland”, in Italy-Italia, The Magazine of the Italian Cultural Institute for Scotland and Northern Ireland, n.3 July-Dec. 1999, pp. 6-11

 

4. “Why Verdi dedicated his Requiem to Alessandro Manzoni”, House Programme, Kirov Orchestra, Covent Garden, London, 2001

 

5. On-going collaboration since 2008 in il Piccolo, Bimestrale d’informazione, Cultura e Vita sociale dell’Associazione Cardinal Ferrari della Compagnia di San Paolo, Milano: eg. “Quanto vale una lettera di san Paolo?”, maggio/giugno 2008, n°3, p. 17

 

6. “Un misterioso giardino della salute?” in Raggi d’ulivo a cura di Ryan V., Predicatore M., Baffoni A., Piergallini A, Lokaj R., Freemocco, Deruta (PG) 2015, 14-15

 

Forthcoming articles

 

1. “Il carisma francescano qual fonte di Paradiso III”, in Linguistica e Letteratura (2019)
2. “Frederick II between Clare of Assisi and Agnes of Prague”, Mediterranea, (2018)
3. “Le fonti biblico-patristiche quali vettori tematici nella lettera XI”, in Dante attraverso i documenti III. Contesti culturali e storici delle epistole dantesche, Atti di convegno 19-21 ott. 2016, Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, finanziati dalla ERC come BIFLOW PROJECT – Bilingualism in Florentine and Tuscan Works (ca. 1260- ca. 1416), Venezia 2017
4. “Il ritratto di Petrarca nell’Oratorio di San Giorgio: Altichiero fra omaggio e citazione in memoriam”, in La Basilica di Sant’Antonio in Padova Archeologia Storia Arte Architettura, a cura di L. Bertazzo e G. Zampieri, Le chiese monumentali padovane, Collana diretta da Girolamo Zampieri, 6, «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, 2019
5. “Imitazioni cinquecentesche dell’epitafio di Virgilio”, Istituto di Studi Umanistici Francesco Petrarca, Franco Cesati, Firenze 2020
6. “La voce di Confucio in lingua latina: Prospero Intorcetta”