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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Professor Anna Pegoretti

Prof Anna Pegoretti
Position(s): 
Professor of Medieval Italian Literature and Culture
Department/Section: 
Italian
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
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Faculty of Modern and听Medieval Languages and Linguistics

Raised Faculty Building

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Sidgwick Avenue

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CB3 9DA

United Kingdom

About: 

Anna Pegoretti (PhD Pisa, 2009) works on Italian medieval literature, with a specialization in Dante studies. She is the author of Dal 鈥渓ito diserto鈥 al giardino. La costruzione del paesaggio nel 鈥楶urgatorio鈥 di Dante (Bononia University Press, 2007); Indagine su un codice dantesco. La 鈥楥ommedia鈥 Egerton 943 della British Library (Felici, 2014), devoted to the earliest entirely illuminated manuscript of Dante鈥檚 poem, MS Egerton 943 housed at the British Library; Dante a Trento! Usi e abusi di una retorica nazionale (1890-1921) (Castelvecchi, 2022), examining the peculiar history of the Dante monument in Trento, inaugurated in 1896 while the region was under Austria-Hungary鈥檚 rule.

She has taught at Roma Tre University for several years and served as a Visiting Professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 2021. She has also been a Notre Dame Rome Associate Fellow (2023鈥2025). She is a co-editor of the leading international journal of Dante studies .

She has collaborated with the science-theatre festival in Trento and has been a guest on the Italian national radio Rai Radio 3. She also collaborates with the leading Italian publishing house Mondadori Scuola. 听

Teaching interests: 

Prof. Pegoretti teaches topics related to medieval Italian literature and culture across various papers for the Italian Section and for the MPhil in Literature, Culture and Thought. She offers supervision across a range of topics related to literature and culture in 13th鈥14th century Italy, with special attention to Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Franciscan literature.

Research interests: 
  • Dante studies (including reception studies)
  • Franciscan studies
  • literature and the history of ideas听
  • literature and late medieval education
  • manuscript textual culture
  • interplay between words and images
  • Boccaccio studies
  • Literary geography 听
Recent research projects: 

Her current research focuses primarily on Dante鈥檚 theological and philosophical culture, and on his intellectual formation in relation to the educational practices and institutions of his time, with special attention to the schools of the Franciscan friars. She has been a co-investigator of a major research project titled , co-led by a network of Italian universities.

She is also involved in the development of a digital encyclopedia of the Decameron (PI Prof. Maurizio Fiorilla, Roma Tre University), with special attention to geography in Boccaccio鈥檚 masterpiece.

Published works: 

Select Published works

2024. Now Feed Yourself: Anglo-American and Italian Scholarship on Dante, ed. by T.J.Cachey jr., Z.G. Bara艅ski, and A. Pegoretti, Italian Perspectives, 63 (Oxford, Legenda 鈥 Modern Humanities Research Association), pp. 15鈥44.

2024. 鈥楴ovit脿 da Santa Croce鈥, in Letture classensi, 52. Dante lettore, ed. by S. Nobili (Ravenna: Longo), pp. 15鈥35.

2024. 鈥楢utomi, simulacri, pesi morti: antropologie disfunzionali tra Cavalcanti e Dante鈥, in La 鈥渃ompiuta gioia鈥. Dante e la filosofia, ed. by L. Bianchi, S. Pelizzari, and A. Tabarroni (Ravenna: Longo), pp. 33鈥59.

2022. Forum 鈥楧ante and Cosmology鈥, coordinated by Theodore J. Cachey jr., Anna Pegoretti, Chiara Sbordoni, Dante Studies, 140, 135-265.

2022. Dante a Trento! Usi e abusi di una retorica nazionale (1890-1921) (Roma: Castelvecchi).

2022. 鈥楲a pratica della disputa nella biblioteca e nell鈥檈sperienza di Dante鈥, in La biblioteca di Dante. Atti del Convegno (Roma, 7-9 ottobre 2021), Atti dei Convegni Lincei, 345 (Roma: Bardi edizioni), 2022, pp. 423鈥59.

2019. 鈥業l curriculum del poeta-teologo: Boccaccio e il viaggio di Dante a Parigi鈥, Studi sul Boccaccio, 47, 129鈥58.

2018. 鈥楲eonardo e Dante. Appunti per una ricerca inevitabile鈥, in听Da Dante a Berenson: sette secoli tra parole e immagini. Omaggio a Lucia Battaglia Ricci,听ed. by A. Pegoretti, and C. Balbarini (Ravenna: Longo), pp. 197鈥219.

2018. 鈥楨arly Reception until 1481鈥, in听Companion to Dante鈥檚 Commedia, ed. by Z.G. Bara艅ski, and Simon Gilson (密桃视频: 密桃视频 University Press), pp. 245鈥58.

2017. 鈥樷淣elle scuole delli religiosi鈥: materiali per Santa Croce nell鈥檈t脿 di Dante鈥, 尝鈥橝濒颈驳丑颈别谤颈, n.s., 50, 5鈥55.

2016. 鈥楧ismembered Voices and Acoustic Memories: Dante in Giulio Cesare Croce鈥, Italian Studies, 71.2, 76鈥88.

2015,听鈥楩颈濒辞蝉辞蹿补苍迟颈鈥, Le tre corone. Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, 2, 11鈥70.

2014.听Indagine su un codice dantesco. La 鈥楥ommedia鈥 Egerton 943 della British Library, (Ghezzano (Pisa): Felici).

2011. 鈥樷淒i che paese se鈥 tu di ponente?鈥 Cartografie boccacciane鈥, Studi sul Boccaccio, 39, 83鈥113.

2007. Dal 鈥渓ito diserto鈥 al giardino. La costruzione del paesaggio nel 鈥楶urgatorio鈥 di Dante (Bologna, Bononia University Press).