Michele Rossi

My interests include Italian literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, with special focus on Petrarch, and interdisciplinary relations between literature, cinema, music, and art. I obtained my Italian laurea from the University of Padova, with a thesis entitled “Il dio Amore tra mitografia e mitopoiesi da Boccaccio a Monti” (2001). My advisor was Prof. Manlio Pastore Stocchi. In 2007 I got a PhD in Italianistica e Filologia Classico Medievale at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venezia, with Prof. Gino Belloni. My dissertation title was “Sulla prima diffusione del testo dei “Rerum vulgarium fragmenta” di Francesco Petrarca. Il ms. 4 della Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile di Padova e il ms. Correr 1494 della Biblioteca del Museo Civico Correr di Venezia”. I then joined the Italian Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where I am studying towards a second PhD. My current research focuses on Paduan Humanism and Humanist Educational Treatises.

Publications:

• “Metamorfosi settecentesche di Eros”, in “Atti dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti”, Tomo CLX, 2001-2002, pp. 343-421.
• Recensione a “Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. Codice Vat. lat. 3195. Commentario all’edizione in fac-simile”, a cura di Gino Belloni, Furio Brugnolo, H. Wayne Storey e Stefano Zamponi, Roma-Padova, Editrice Antenore, 2004, in “Studi petrarcheschi”, n.s., XIX, 2006, pp. 282-292.

I choose to come to Penn because both the Romance Languages Department and the Italian Studies program are very vibrant environments for my field of interest, Medieval and Renaissance literature.

• E-mail: microssi@sas.upenn.edu