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Chiara Sbordoni
Visiting Assistant Professor, Italian
Ph.D., Università La Sapienza
Professor Sbordoni received her Ph.D. in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature from the Università La Sapienza in Rome in 2006. Her dissertation, which she is revising and expanding for publication, is the first comprehensive catalogue and study of fictional letters found in texts of all the main literary genres of Italian literature from the 14th century to the end of the 16th century. Besides epistolography, she is interested in the impact of literary models from the classical tradition on medieval authors such as Dante and Boccaccio and has worked on the influence of Ovid on Boccaccio’s Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta. She published an article on the relationship between Dante’s Comedy and St. John’s Apocalypse.
