School of Modern Languages and Cultures
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Dr Anna Pegoretti
Newton International Fellow
0113 3438868
I graduated at the
University of Bologna in 2005 in Modern Italian Literature with a thesis on
Dante, that was published two years later (supervisors: Prof. Daniela Delcorno
Branca, Dr Giuseppe Ledda). In 2009 I completed my PhD in Italian Studies at
the University of Pisa, defending a dissertation that examined the manuscript
of Dante's Commedia Egerton 943,
housed in the British Library (supervisors: Prof. Lucia Battaglia Ricci,
Marcello Ciccuto). This dissertation is expected to be published in 2012. In
2010 I was awarded a short-term Francis A. Yates Fellowship at the Warburg
Institute. In the same year I took part in symposia and congresses in Italy,
France, UK and USA.
My
primary interest is in Dante, considered in a broad cultural and historical context;
in the reception of the Commedia and its iconographic tradition; in philological
problems concerning both the poem and its Trecento commentaries;
in Petrarch and Boccaccio, and in their relations to Dante's works; in medieval scientific (especially
astronomic and geographic) knowledge. My approach to these topics is constantly
underpinned by my interest in the history of the book and education.
I am currently Newton International Fellow for
the British Academy at the SMLC of the University of Leeds, where I am also a
member of the LCDS (link!). I am
working on the project "Franciscan
Florentine Culture in the Age of Dante", which aims to re-evaluate Dante's
response to the Franciscan movement. In particular, it will do so by focusing
on a crucial environment for the poet's intellectual growth, the Florentine
Franciscan convent of Santa Croce during the second half of the thirteenth
century. The research will deal with a large amount of manuscripts and
documents, and will be enriched by a significant body of recent scholarship
which has largely remained unconnected with studies into Dante. Because of its
interdisciplinary character, the research aims to reach significant
improvements in Dante studies as well as in medieval studies on a crucial
environment of the late Middle Ages.
At the University of
Leeds I am organizing an International Seminar Series on 'Mendicant Orders and
Literature in Italy (13th-14th c.)'. More information can be found here (link).
Books
Dal' lito diserto' al giardino: la costruzione del paesaggio nel 'Purgatorio' di Dante,
(Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2007)
'Or ti riman, lettor, sovra 'l
tuo banco'. Il ms. Egerton 943 della British Library, PhD thesis, University of Pisa, 2009 (Pisa: Felici Editore, series 'Studi
italianistici', forthcoming in 2012)
Articles
'"Di che paese se' tu di Ponente?' Cartografie boccacciane', Studi sul Boccaccio, 39 (2011), pp. 83-113
'Allégorie et conscience de l'espace dans le Purgatoire de Dante', in Le paysage allégorique: entre image mentale et pays transfiguré, ed. C. Imbert and P. Maupeu (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, series 'Interférences', 2011), pp. 125-140 (transl. from English by C. Imbert)
'L'immagine come possibile commento al testo: la rappresentazione dei lussuriosi nel ms. della Commedia Egerton 943', in Testo e commento: prima giornata di studi della Scuola di Dottorato in Letterature e Filologie Moderne, ed. M.C. Cabani e G. Poggi (Pisa: Felici, 2008), pp. 109-135
'Immaginare la veste di un angelo: il caso di Purg. IX, 115-116' L'Alighieri, 27 (2006), pp. 141-151
'Dalla periferia al centro dell'universo: il viaggio
di Dante e la logica della distanza', in La letteratura degli Italiani, 1: centri e periferie. Atti del XIII Congresso dell'Associazione degli Italianisti (forthcoming on http://www.italianisti.it/)
Reviews
Since 2005 I have written several book reviews on different aspects of Dante studies, Boccaccio and Brunetto Latini for the Italian Journals L'Alighieri, Lettere Italiane, Studi sul Boccaccio, and Studi Medievali. I also wrote a review of a Seminar for Franciscana, and the entry 'L'enciclopedismo, la letteratura scientifica e di viaggio' for the encyclopedia Il Medioevo, 9: il basso Medioevo, ed. U. Eco (Milano: Motta-Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, 2009).