Biography

Igor Candido is Associate Professor in Italian at Trinity College Dublin. He holds two doctoral degrees in Italian literature, a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University (2011) and a Dr.Phil. from the University of Turin, Italy (2009). In 2013-2014 he was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship to conduct research at Freie Universität Berlin. He has lectured and taught in Italy, the US, Germany, Ireland and written on Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Poliziano, De Sanctis, Pascoli, Emerson, Longfellow. He has provided the critical edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson's translation of Dante's Vita nuova (Aragno editore, 2012) as well as a monograph on Boccaccio as reader and imitator of Apuleius of Madauros (Boccaccio umanista. Studi su Boccaccio e Apuleio, Longo editore, 2014). He has just finished editing a volume titled Petrarch and Boccaccio. The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World (Walter De Gruyter, 2018) and is currently working on a new commented edition of Petrarch's The Life of Solitude (Toronto University Press, under contract). He is also editing a special issue of Ecdotica(Carocci editore, 2025). His new research project is tentatively titled "The Prehistory of the Novel. Studies in the Origins and Silent Transmission of Western Narrative Fiction." He is one of the editors of: Lettere italiane, and Archivio Novellistico Italiano and is a member of the scientific board of the "Rassegna Europea della Letteratura Italiana" and "Griselda Online". He collaborates with Italian and American journals such as "L'Indice dei libri del mese" and "Modern Language Notes".

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Igor Candido, L'esilio di Dante nella letteratura inglese e americana tra Otto e Novecento (con una premessa storica al Dante dei puritani), Letture classensi, 45, 2016, p85 - 103Journal Article, 2016, URL
  • Legere quod scripserunt primi, scribere quod legant ultimi: itinerari della lettura (e della scrittura) tra Petrarca e Boccaccio in, editor(s)G. Rizzarelli and C. Savettieri , C'è un lettore in questo testo? Rappresentazioni letterarie della lettura in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016, pp43 - 67, [Igor Candido]Book Chapter, 2016, URL
  • Igor Candido, Il pane tra le favole o del Convivio di Boccaccio: l'Introduzione alla Quarta Giornata, Heliotropia, 12, 2015, p51 - 85Journal Article, 2015, URL
  • Igor Candido, Boccaccio sulla via del romanzo. Metamorfosi di un genere tra antico e moderno, Archivio novellistico italiano, 1, 2016, p6 - 26Journal Article, 2016
  • Igor Candido, Boccaccio umanista. Studi su Boccaccio e Apuleio, Ravenna, Longo editore, 2014, 1 - 165ppBook, 2014, URL
  • Vita Nuova, Igor Candido, (Filosofia anglo-americana), Torino:, Aragno editore, 2012, 1 - 308Critical Edition (Book), 2012, URL
  • Christopher Celenza, Il Rinascimento perduto. La letteratura latina nella cultura italiana del Quattrocento . Ed. and trans by Igor Candido, Rome, Carocci, 2014Book, 2014, URL
  • Modern Language Notes, 124, 5, (2009), Igor Candido and Francesco Caruso, [eds.]Journal, 2009, URL
  • Archivio Novellistico Italiano, 1, 1, (2016), Igor Candido, [eds.]Journal, 2016, URL
  • Igor Candido, 'Boccaccio', Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, 2020, -Bibliography, filmography, etc., 2020, DOI , URL
  • Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio on Conversion. in, editor(s)Igor Candido , Petrarch and Boccaccio. The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2018, pp153 - 175, [Igor Candido]Book Chapter, 2018
  • Igor Candido, Il cor inquietum di Dante e il cor quietum di Boccaccio nella Storia di Francesco de Sanctis, Lettere italiane, 67, (2), 2015, p225 - 249Journal Article, 2015
  • Boccaccio rinnovatore di generi classici in, editor(s)F. Ciabattoni, E. Filosa and K. Olson , Boccaccio 1313-2013. Proceedings of the Second Triennial American Boccaccio Association Conference, Ravenna, Longo editore, 2015, pp225 - 236, [Igor Candido]Book Chapter, 2015, URL
  • Igor Candido, Ovidio e il pubblico del Decameron, Levia Gravia, 15-16, 2014, p1 - 15Journal Article, 2014
  • Branca e il MS Hamilton 90 della Staatsbibliothek di Berlino in, editor(s)Cesare De Michelis and Gilberto Pizzamiglio , Le lezioni Di Vittore Branca, Florence, Olschki, 2014, pp35 - 52, [Igor Candido]Book Chapter, 2014, URL
  • Venus duplex: Apuleio dal Teseida alla Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine in, editor(s)E. Filosa and M. Papio , Boccaccio in America. Proceedings of the ABA Conference, Amherst, Longo editore, 2012, pp221 - 239, [Igor Candido]Book Chapter, 2012, URL
  • Igor Candido, Poetry and Imagination: Emerson interprete di Dante, in Vita Nuova, Turin, Aragno editore, 2012, 1 - 175ppBook, 2012, URL
  • Igor Candido, Psyche's Textual Journey from Apuleius to Boccaccio and Petrarch. In: The Afterlife of Apuleius, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies , 140, 2021, p65 - 78Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Igor Candido, 'The Bible of Love:' Emerson's and Rossetti's Early Translations of The Vita Nuova, Studj romanzi, n.s., 2018, p125 - 148Journal Article, 2018
  • Igor Candido, European Influences and American Identity in Longfellow's Dantism, Dante Studies, 129, 2010, p103 - 123Journal Article, 2010
  • The Role of the Philosopher in Late Quattrocento Florence: Poliziano's Lamia and the Legacy of the Pico-Barbaro Epistolary Controversy in, editor(s)Christopher S. Celenza , Angelo Poliziano's Lamia in Context , Leiden, Brill, 2010, pp95 - 129, [Igor Candido]Book Chapter, 2010, URL
  • Igor Candido, Rassegna di studi danteschi in Nord America (1990-2010), Lettere italiane, 62, (1), 2010, p114 - 150Journal Article, 2010
  • Igor Candido, La fabula di Amore e Psiche dalle chiose del Laur. 29.2 alle due redazioni delle Genealogie di Boccaccio e ancora in Dec. X, 10, Studi sul Boccaccio, 37, 2009, p171 - 196Journal Article, 2009
  • Igor Candido, Apuleio alla fine del Decameron: la novella di Griselda come riscrittura della lepida fabula di Amore e Psiche, Filologia e critica, 32, (1), 2007, p3 - 17Journal Article, 2007
  • Igor Candido, Il Libro della Scrittura, il Libro della Natura, il Libro della Memoria: l'esegesi dantesca di C. S. Singleton fra tradizione giudaico-cristiana e trascendentalismo emersoniano, Modern Language Notes, 122, (1), 2007, p46 - 79Journal Article, 2007
  • Igor Candido, Review of The Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose. Ed. by R. J. Moll. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval, 2013, by William Caxton , The Medieval Review , 2015Review, 2015, URL
  • Igor Candido, Review of Tre studi sul "De mulieribus claris". Milan: LED, 2012, by Elsa Filosa , Studi sul Boccaccio, 41, 2013, p403-408Review, 2013
  • Igor Candido, Review of Il giusto Enea e il pio Rifeo. Pagine dantesche. Florence: Leo Olschki, 2012, by Edoardo Fumagalli , The Medieval Review , 2013Review, 2013, URL
  • Igor Candido, Review of La Commedia di Dante Alighieri, a c. di R. Hollander. Florence: Olschki, 2011), by Dante Alighieri , L'Indice dei libri del mese, (6), 2012, p22Review, 2012
  • Igor Candido, Review of Dante. Il paradigma intellettuale. Un'inventio degli anni fiorentini. Florence: Olschki, 2011, by Maria Luisa Ardizzone , L'Indice dei libri del mese, (5), 2012, p22Review, 2012
  • Igor Candido, Review of Boccaccio's Expositions on Dante's Comedy, by Michael Papio , Studi sul Boccaccio, 39, 2011, p412-416Review, 2011
  • Igor Candido, Review of Fuga in "Paradiso". Storia intertestuale di Cunizza da Romano. Ravenna: Longo editore, 2010, by Valter Puccetti , L'Indice dei libri del mese, 11, 2011, p43Review, 2011
  • Igor Candido, Review of Dante. Storia di un visionario. Bari: Laterza, 2008, by Guglielmo Gorni , Lettere italiane, 51, (2), 2011, p334-338Review, 2011
  • Igor Candido, Review of Dante e la questione della lingua di Adamo (D.v.e., I 4-7; Par. XXVI 124-38). Rome: Salerno, 2010, by Massimiliano Corrado , L'Indice dei libri del mese, (4), 2011, p23Review, 2011
  • Igor Candido, La straordinaria fortuna di Dante in America, L'Indice dei libri del mese, 1, 2011, p14Review Article, 2011
  • Igor Candido, Review of Perché Dante? Rome: Aracne, 2010, by John A. Scott , L'Indice dei libri del mese, 1, 2011, p14Review, 2011
  • Igor Candido, Review of Girolamo Cardano, De sapientia libri quinque,Florence: Olschki, 2008, by Marco Bracali , Neo-Latin News , 58, (1-2), 2010, p100-102Review, 2010
  • Igor Candido, Review of Filologia e critica dantesca. Brescia: La Scuola, 2008), by Saverio Bellomo , Modern Language Notes, 125, (1), 2010, p248-250Review, 2010
  • Igor Candido, Review of Parole come fatti. La metafora relizzata e altre glosse al 'Decameron'. Napoli: Liguori, 2008, by Pier Massimo Forni , Lettere italiane, 48, (4), 2008, p630-634Review, 2008
  • Igor Candido, Review of Dante nella crisi religiosa del Cinquecento italiano. Da Trifon Gabriele a Lodovico Castelvetro. Rome: Vecchiarelli, 2005, by Davide Dalmas , Modern Language Notes, 123, (1), 2008, p198-201Review, 2008
  • Igor Candido, Review of The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, by Christopher Celenza , Lettere italiane, (3), 2007, p453-458Review, 2007
  • Igor Candido, Boccaccio Reading Cino Reading Dante in Filostrato V 62-66, Modern Language Notes, 134, (supplement), 2019, p105 - 117Journal Article, 2019, DOI , URL
  • Introduction in, editor(s)Igor Candido , Petrarch and Boccaccio. The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2018, pp1 - 14, [Igor Candido]Book Chapter, 2018
  • I confini del Decameron: Fiammetta e Corbaccio a confronto in, editor(s)Philippe Guerin, Manuele Gragnolati , Aimer ou ne pas aimer: une question, deux textes: Boccace Elegia di madonna Fiammetta et Corbaccio. Colloque International organisé par les Universités Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris 3 et Sorbonne Université, 25-26 janvier 2018 , Paris, PSN, 2018, pp191 - 207, [Igor Candido]Book Chapter, 2018
  • Igor Candido, Review of La realtà come invenzione. Forme e storia della novella italiana , by E. Menetti, , L'Indice dei librid el mese, 2017, p21Review, 2017
  • Igor Candido, Review of L'eccezione italiana: L'intellettuale laico nel Medioevo e l'origine del Rinascimento, by Ronald Witt , LÍndice dei libri del mese, (2), 2018, p19Review, 2018
  • Igor Candido (ed.), Petrarch and Boccaccio. The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2018, 1 - 380ppBook, 2018, DOI , URL
  • Igor Candido, Per una rilettura della Vita Nova: la prima visio in somniis, Lettere italiane, 71, (1), 2019, p21 - 50Journal Article, 2019
  • Igor Candido, Visuali retrospettive, Review of Dante leggero, by Marco Veglia , L'Indice dei libri del mese, (12), 2018, p27Review, 2018
  • Igor Candido, Carte d'identità letterariedei narratori decameroniani, Griseldaonline, 19, (2), 2020, p221 - 244Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
  • Le lettere perdute di Francesco Bruni a Petrarca, Boccaccio, Salutati e tre inedite a Francesco e Bene del Bene in, editor(s)Sabrina Ferrara , Échanges épistolaires autour de Pétrarque et Boccace, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2021, pp329 - 358, [Igor Candido]Book Chapter, 2021
  • Igor Candido, Chiara Fenoglio, Raffaello Palumbo Mosca, Silvia Ricca, Daniele Santero, La letteratura permanente. Poeti, scrittori, critici per Giorgio Ficara, Milano, La Nave di Teseo, 2022, 1 - 624ppBook, 2022
  • Igor Candido, «Un modello di edizione insieme critica ed esegetica»: la Vita nuova di Barbi, Studi danteschi, 85, 2020, p1 - 25Journal Article, 2020
  • Igor Candido, Dante conviviale: mito classico e dottrina cristiana in Pascoli, Rivista di letteratura italiana, 39, (3), 2021, p45 - 55Journal Article, 2021, URL
  • Igor Candido, Singleton's unpublished edition of the Vita nuova, Modern Language Notes, 137, (1), 2022, p175 - 208Journal Article, 2022, URL
  • Mulier ficta: la creazione del personaggio femminile da Dante a Manzoni in, editor(s)I. Candido, C. Fenoglio, G. Ricca, D. Santero , La letteratura permanente. Poeti, scrittori, critici per Giorgio Ficara, Milan, La Nave di Teseo, 2022, pp197 - 209, [Igor candido]Book Chapter, 2022
  • Linking the ancients to posterity: Petrarch's ideal and intended readership in De vita solitaria in, editor(s)Bernhard Huss , Affects and Community-Formation in the Petrarchan World, Berlin, 2022, pp53 - 61, [Igor Candido]Book Chapter, 2022, URL
  • I due sensi della Vita nova o delle ipostasi d'Amore in, editor(s)Paolo Borsa, Anna Maria Cabrini , Dante e il prosimetro: dalla "Vita nova" al "Convivio",, Milan, Lededizioni, 2023, pp35 - 62, [Igor Candido]Book Chapter, 2023, DOI , URL
  • Igor Candido, Avventurati incontri. , Review of Testi e vicende del Trecento, by Renzo Bragantini , L'Indice dei libri del mese, (7/8), 2021, p41Review, 2021, URL
  • "The Vita Nuova Will Yet Have American Successors": Translating Dante in Nineteenth-Century New England in, editor(s)J. Blakesley and F. Coluzzi , English Life of the Vita Nuova, London, Routledge, 2022, pp76 - 92, [Igor Candido]Book Chapter, 2022
  • Il Dante dei puritani e l"eredità della teologia gotica in, editor(s)I. Pontoriero and M. Veglia , "E sarai meco senza fine cive". Temi, personaggi e fortuna della cultura politica e giuridica di Dante, Bologna, Bologna University Press, 2023, pp145 - 162, [Igor Candido]Book Chapter, 2023, DOI
  • Apulée et la loi pétrarquienne de l'imitation in, editor(s)Joseph Dalbera , Les Métamorphoses d'Apulée à travers les lieux et les âges Réceptions, réécritures, héritages, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2024, pp103 - 122, [Igor Candido]Book Chapter, 2024, URL
  • Igor Candido, Review of Studi sul Boccaccio 39, 2011, American Boccaccio Association Newsletter, 2013, p12-13Review
  • Igor Candido, Ricordo di Mauthausen, Gusen, Ebensee e di Marziano Guglielminetti. Bollettino Aned, 2007, - 14-16Miscellaneous
  • Igor Candido, 'The Bible of Love:' Emerson's and Rossetti's Early Translations of The Vita Nuova, Dante's Vita Nuova: Archaeologies of a Text, New York, April 8, 2016, Maria Luisa Ardizzone and Teodolinda BaroliniInvited Talk, URL
  • Igor Candido, I 'romanzi' di Boccaccio tra antico e moderno, Padua, March 17, 2016, University of PaduaInvited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Psyche's Textual Journey from Apuleius to Boccaccio and Petrarch, The Afterlife of Apuleius, London, April 3-4, 2016, Warburg InstituteInvited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Love's Metaphors Lost: Boccaccio's Fiammetta and the Birth of the Psychological Novel, Metaphors and Other Ways we Choose by, Berlin, November 7, 2015, TopoiInvited Talk
  • Igor Candido, L'esilio di Dante nella letteratura inglese tra Otto e Novecento, Letture classensi, Ravenna, October 31, 2015, Biblioteca classenseInvited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Boccaccio sulla via del romanzo. Metamorfosi di un genere tra antico e moderno, Berlin, July 6, 2015, Freie UniversitaetInvited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Lettura del De vita solitaria di Petrarca, Turin, June 1, 2015, University of TurinInvited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Boccaccio alessandrino: filologia, intertestualità, ermeneutica, Rome, February 26, 2015Invited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Dante's Theological Judgment and Boccaccio's Suspension of Assent, The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World: Petrarch and Boccaccio between the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance, Berlin, June 11-12, 2014, Igor CandidoInvited Talk
  • Igor Candido, "Diresti ch'ei scrivesse il Proemio leggendo le Eroidi di Ovidio": ars amatoria e ars consolatoria nel Decameron, Convegno «Umana cosa è aver compassione degli afflitti...»: raccontare, consolare, curare nella narrativa europea da Boccaccio al Seicento, Turin, December 12-13-14 , 2013Invited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Il pane tra le favole o del convivio di Boccaccio: l'Introduzione alla Quarta Giornata, Convegno Boccaccio politico, Bologna, July 19-21, 2013Invited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Branca e il MS Hamilton 90 della Staatsbibliothek di Berlino, Convegno Le lezioni di Vittore Branca, Padua and Venezia, May 7-8, 2013Invited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Dante in the Light of John's Revelation: Rereading Vita Nuova 3 and Purgatorio 30, Dartmouth, February 5, 2013Invited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Dante's unquiet heart and Boccaccio's quiet heart in De Sanctis's History of Italian Literature, Conference: Francesco de Sanctis and the Unity of Italy, Los Angeles, April 28-30, 2011, L. Ballerini and M. CiavolellaInvited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Apuleio alla fine del «Decameron»: tra riscrittura e mitopoiesi, Conference "Classico e moderno", Turin, January 16, 2008Invited Talk
  • Igor Candido and Gaia Gubbini, Dante and the Knowledge of His Time, December 10, 2015, BerlinMeetings /Conferences Organised
  • Igor Candido, The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World: Petrarch and Boccaccio between the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance, June 10-13, 2014, BerlinMeetings /Conferences Organised
  • Igor Candido and Francesco Caruso, Freccero Symposium, May 2-3, 2008, BaltimoreMeetings /Conferences Organised
  • Igor Candido, "Poesia e immaginazione": Emerson interprete di Dante, University of Turin, 2004Thesis
  • Igor Candido, "The Cardinal Facts of European History": Ralph Waldo Emerson e la letteratura italiana, University of Turin, 2009Thesis
  • Igor Candido, Boccaccio and Myth: Eros, Psyche, and Classical Myth in the Fourteenth Century, Johns Hopkins University, 2011Thesis
  • Igor Candido, I confini del Decameron: Fiammetta e Corbaccio a confronto, Aimer ou ne pas aimer: une question, deux textes: Boccace Elegia di madonna Fiammetta et Corbaccio. Colloque International organisé par les Universités Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris 3 et Sorbonne Université, 25-26 janvier 2018, Paris, 26 January 2018, 2018, Manuele Gragnolati and Philippe GuerinInvited Talk, URL
  • Igor Candido, Forme dell'immaginazione e rappresentazioni della lettura nella letteratura italiana', Pisa, Scuola Normale, 13-14 November, 2018Invited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Preliminary Observations on a new bilingual edition of Boccaccio's Decameron., BonHum, Tours, Univ. Francois Rabelais, 25 January, 2019Invited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Metamorfosi d'Amore nella Vita nova, Seminario dottorandi, University of Pisa, Pisa, 15.12.2021, 2021, A. Borrelli, M. C. CabaniInvited Talk
  • Il Dante dei puritani tra esilio e teologia gotica, International conference «E sarai meco sanza fine cive». Temi, personaggi e fortuna della cultura politica e giuridica di Dante, Bologna, 30.11.21-2.12.21, 2021, Marco VegliaInvited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Beatrice oltremondana: Dall'Eden all'Empireo, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, 12.7.2021, 2021Invited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Linking the ancients to posterity: Petrarch"s De vita solitaria, Workshop ONLINE "Affects and Community- Formation in the Petrarchan, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, 11/12.3, 2021Invited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Teoria e storia del dantismo americano,, SCUOLA ESTIVA INTERNAZIONALE IN STUDI DANTESCHI, XIV edition, Università Cattolica, Milan, 13.7-25.9, 2020Invited Talk
  • Igor Candido, La storia della salvezza in Dante: dalla Vita Nova al Purgatorio, 13.12.2019, 2019, M. ZaccarelloInvited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Francesco Bruni's Lost Letters and Petrarch's Florentine Circle, Échanges épistolaires autour de Pétrarque et Boccace, Tours, Univ. Francois Rabelais, 16 June, 2019, S. FerraraInvited Talk
  • Igor Candido, Accoppiamenti giudiziosi: intimità dei personaggi decameroniani, L"arte di narrare le passioni in Europa , University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 9 May, 2019, E. MenettiInvited Talk

Research Expertise

My research has been comparative in two directions. My interest in Dante and medieval culture led me to a scholarly project tracing the appreciation of Dante in North America, from its real roots in the era of Emerson to the twentieth-century. In a book concerning Emerson"s translation of Dante"s New Life, I have presented a historical study that sets Emerson's work in context, a study that accompanies the first critical edition of his Dantean translation; in a critical study of American scholarship on Dante I offer a comprehensive reading of American Dante criticism in the post-Singleton era; in an article appeared in "Dante studies", I propose an innovative reading of Longfellow"s Dantism in the light of the unpublished lectures delivered at Harvard College from 1838 to 1852. My first monograph received 10 reviews, 6 in newspapers, which highlighted the interest in the work beyond my academic field and could anticipate the impact that it was going to exercise on the field of comparative studies. My study on Emerson and Dante opened new research paths: I am now working on a new monograph that will consider Emerson"s interest in and knowledge of Italian literature as a whole. The new monograph should appear in the series "Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature." Dante's medieval context is equally important for me. For this reason, I worked on Boccaccio as a writer and interpreter of myths. By combining textual criticism, reception studies, and cultural history, my project for the first time defined Boccaccio"s literary and philosophical debts to Apuleius of Madauros. My study successfully challenged the scholarly paradigm of Vittore Branca's "Boccaccio medievale", which for almost fifty years was an admired standby. One of the foremost Boccaccio scholars has indeed labeled my "Boccaccio umanista" as our `own Boccaccio", the new Boccaccio of the current generation of scholars. At the centre of my research lies a set of problems in the "Decameron": in particular, I demonstrated that the fable of Eros and Psyche is the most important source of the Griselda tale (Dec. X, 10), a tale that enjoyed wide circulation from Petrarch"s translation into Latin and Chaucer"s adaptation in his Clerk's Tale. I then became convinced that Boccaccio"s classicism needed to be rethought; he was an avid student of Apuleius not only as a source of myths, but also as a source for Neoplatonic philosophy. By using palaeographic, philological, and hermeneutical instruments and methods, my monograph provided the first comprehensive study on Boccaccio as reader, glossator, and imitator of Apuleius, as well as a new thought-provoking contribution on his still underestimated humanism. In investigating the diffusion of Apuleius in medieval Italy, I conducted an innovative reassessment not only of Boccaccio, but of medieval textual culture at large. More specifically, the analysis of Boccaccio"s reading strategies contributed to challenge authoritative narratives that assume a sharp divide between Middle Ages and Renaissance humanism. My second monograph received 8 scholarly reviews.

  • Title
    Petrarch and Boccaccio as Pre-Modern Humanists
    Summary
    The first aims to provide the first comprehensive study on Boccaccio as reader, glossator, and imitator of Apuleius. At the center of this research lies a set of problems in the Decameron and its particular focus revolves around Boccaccio's rewritings of the fable of Cupid and Psyche. The second project aims to provide a new commented edition of Petrarch's De vita solitaria for the LPIL series of Toronto University Press.
    Funding Agency
    Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
    Date From
    January 2013
    Date To
    December 2014
  • Title
    Global Humanities Junior Research and Teaching Stay at Freie Universitaet Berlin
    Summary
    Funding Agency
    Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst
    Date From
    October 2015
    Date To
    February 2016

Languages and literature, Philosophy, Ethics and Religion, Other Humanities,

Recognition

  • Singleton Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2005-2006 2005-2006
  • Gilman Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2009-2010 2009-2010
  • Gilman Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2006-2007 2006-2007
  • Prize for the best Thesis in Lettere Moderne, University of Turin 2005
  • PhD fellowship in Italian studies, XX Ciclo, Università degli Studi di Torino 2005-2006 2005-2006
  • PhD fellowship in Italian studies, XX Ciclo, Università degli Studi di Torino 2007-2008 2007-2008
  • PhD fellowship in Italian studies, XX Ciclo, Università degli Studi di Torino 2006-2007 2006-2007
  • Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin, Dahlem Humanities Center, 2013-2014 2013-2014
  • "Presidente della Repubblica" Special Prize for Poetry, Savigliano 2002
  • Gilman Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2010-2011 2010-2011
  • Global Humanities Research Fellowship - The Thematic Network "Principles of Cultural Dynamics" (DAAD funded exchange program), Freie Universität Dahlem Humanities Center and Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center, July 2015- February 2016 2015-2016
  • Fellow-by-Courtesy, Dept of German and Romance Languages, Johns Hopkins University, March 2015-March 2016. 2015-2016
  • Singleton Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2008-2009 2008-2009
  • Gilman Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2007-2008 2007-2008
  • American Boccaccio Association
  • Member of 2017-2019 TEEBOC [Translated Electronic Edition Boccaccio texts with Commentary]: This project brings together a Groupement de Recherche International (GDRI) dedicated to the annotation, translation and digitalization of the entire corpus of Giovanni Boccaccio"s works. The Principal Investigator is Dr. Sabrina Ferrara (Centre d"études supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François-Rabelais, Tours). Dr Igor Candido is the project co-ordinator for activities 2 and 3 (Meetings, seminars, conference organization). 2017
  • Member of the editorial board, Archivio Novellistico italiano. The Archivio is the only journal devoted to the novella. 2015
  • Member of Editorial Board, Lettere italiane. Lettere italiane is one of the oldest and most prestigious journals of Italian literature. 2018
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the Funded Project "Narrare le passioni" PI: Prof. Elisabetta Menetti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. 2018
  • Member of BONHUM Boccace Numérique Humaniste (Boccace Digital Humanist). Model of Digital Publishing of Texts and French Translations of Boccaccio. BoNHum is pilot project that proposes a publishing prototype combining fundamental research with the new digital technologies, in order to provide scholars with a new approach to canonical texts. This PRCI project has the ambition to promote Boccaccio's work as a cultural and literary heritage of Europe in age of Humanism. PI: Dr. Sabrina Ferrara. 2020
  • Member of the editorial board of the Journal Griseldaonline 2019
  • Member of the International Research Network of the University of Turin "Institutions of the novel". My contribution is to the study of the prehistory of the literary genre. 2022