Fabio Finotti

Mariano DiVito Professor of Italian Studies; Graduate Chair, Italian; Director, Center for Italian Studies

Intertextual and rhetorical strategies in Italian literature. His research explores the relationships among different national traditions, codes, media, genres, and social structures. He is the author of several books, including Sistema letterario e diffusione del decadentismo (1988); Critica letteraria e linguaggio religioso (1989); Una ferita non chiusa. Misticismo, filosofia, letteratura in Prezzolini e nel primo Novecento (1992); Retorica della diffrazione. Bembo, Aretino, Giulio Romano e Tasso: letteratura e scena cortigiana (2004), as well as many articles on literary theory and on Italian literature, from Dante to the XXth century. He published editions of Fogazzaro, Prezzolini, D'Annunzio, Prati, Aleardi, Grossi, Carducci. He is currently working on the rhetorical metamorphosis and multiplications of the 'self' in Italian literature, from the medieval stage to the contemporary writers. A member of the Advisory Board of Lettere Italiane, Prof. Finotti is Presidente Vicario of the AISLLI (Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana).

• E-mail: finotti@sas.upenn.edu
• Office: 551 Williams Hall
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• Office Hours: Spring 2008: M 1-2; T 12:30-1:30