Welcome to my personal web page, where you will find materials chiefly related to my academic works. Please have a look around and don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Let me introduce myself. I did start my career as a professional writer in 1987, before getting my Master Degree in Italian Language and Literature, French Literature and History of Art (at the Universität Zürich, in 1998). Then I earned a PhD (Doktorat) in Romance Philology (in 2005, at the Université de Fribourg) and a double Habilitation (in 2010, back in Zurich) in Italian Literature and Old French Literature. From 2010 to 2016 I worked within the Department of Romance Languages and Literature as a Privatdozentin. In 2017 I was granted the title of Titularprofessorin der Universität Zürich (go to Education) and I am currently Professor at the Uni Zürich and Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Theory and Criticism of Literature and Arts (digital version ISSN 2297-1874, printed version ISSN 2504-2238) and Director of the Research Centre for European Philological Tradition RECEPTIO (www.receprio.eu). I also do have 30 years of journalistic experience in print, radio and television. One of the things I'm most passionate about in my life is and will always be writing. With the publication of a new novel in Italian, of an anthology of poems in French, followed by a satirical and eccentric collection of short stories in English, written in an idiosyncratic language, consisting in multilingual puns and portmanteau words, I forged my heteronym, for whom I conceived a highly distinctive technique and poetic idiom.
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Other Critical Editions and Essays
Una ricostruzione biografica puntuale, grazie a nuove indagini presso gli archivi fiorentini, permette di leggere le rime d’amore del pittore Agnolo di Cosimo, detto il Bronzino, tràdite dal codice Magliabechiano II.IX.10, alla luce di una vicenda affettiva personale r...
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Otto studiosi, docenti presso diverse università europee e riuniti attorno a Giulia Lanciani, hanno deciso di offrire al loro amico e maestro Giuseppe Tavani una miscellanea di articoli che si prefigge di esplorare il vasto ambito dell’attribuzione dei nomi d’autore ne...
The world's first author known by name was a woman : the Sumerian poet Enheduanna. The first author of French courtly love was a woman, too. I sum up here the background to my research, the results of which appear in my volumes and papers. Marie is the signature append...
I often choose to work on the interrelation of Literature and Arts, especially painting and music. The question of the relation between visual arts and literature and the investigation of visual-verbal dynamics in Michelangelo's and Bronzino’s poetry is at the heart o...
This long article sums up the first series of lectures on the "melodic scaffolding" of the Divine Comedy I delivered at the University of Zurich during Spring Semester 2013. It does not claim to exhaust a subject to which the avenues of approach are so many and so vari...
In the middle of the Victorian era, in the years immediately following the opening of the British Museum Reading Room, the difficulty of preventing unauthorised entry was a constant source of concern. Pages were found missing from reference books ; the Keeper of Printe...
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