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Renaissance

Valeria Cesaraccio

Contact: Valeria.cesaraccio@warwick.ac.uk

Valeria Cesaraccio is a PhD candidate at Warwick’s Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (2023-2027). She is supervised by Prof. David Lines and Prof. Paul Botley. Her PhD is fully funded by a Chancellor’s International Scholarship.

Her doctoral project (“Teaching and Learning Latin in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Theory and Practice”) investigates the interaction between Latin and Italian in Sixteenth-century school in Italy, examining some minor teachers and their didactic works on grammar, rhetoric, epistolography, and other helpful didactic tools, such as Latin-Italian dictionaries and Italian translations of classical authors.

Valeria obtained her MA degree in Philology, Literatures and History of Antiquity at University of Torino (2022) and her BA degree in Humanities at University of Sassari (2019).

Her research interests include Renaissance education, Neo-Latin and the historical development of Italian language.

Publications

  • Entries: accozzo, ardia, barbaricino, bardana, bassallu, carasau, carta da musica, cussorgia, gallurese, giara, girò, maiore, mezzoradu, nuraghe, stria, in Piccolo vocabolario storico dei sardismi in italiano, ed. by Luigi Matt and Dino Manca (Sassari: Edes, 2025), forthcoming;
  • ‘Per un vocabolario storico della terminologia codicologica, diplomatica e paleografica’, Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano, 7 (2024), forthcoming;

  • ‘Contributi sparsi. Lemmi singoli: “carta nuragografica”, “nuragologia”, “nuragologico”, “nuragologo”, “protonuraghe”, “pseudonuraghe”’, Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano, 7 (2024), forthcoming;

  • Review of Alessandro Aresti, Il glossario latino-bergamasco (sec. XV) della Biblioteca Universitaria di Padova (ms. 534). Nuova edizione con commento linguistico, note lessicali e indici delle voci (Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2021), in Studi linguistici italiani, 50.1 (2024), 159‒61;
  • ‘Contributi sparsi. Lemmi singoli: “medionuragico”, “paleonuragico”, “postnuragico”, “prenuragico”, “protonuragico”, “tardonuragico”’, Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano, 6 (2023), 142–44, 146–51. DOI: 10.30453/144;
  • ‘Retrodatazioni da un manoscritto scolastico di metà Cinquecento’, Studi linguistici italiani, 49.1 (2023), 161‒70. DOI: 10.61001/112459;
  • ‘Contributi sparsi. Lemmi singoli: “elfico”, “gnomico”, “nanica”, “nanico”’, Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano, 5 (2022), 243–50. DOI: 10.30453/131;
  • ‘Contributi raccolti tramite il riscontro di neologismari. Gennaro Vaccaro, Dizionario delle parole nuovissime e difficili, 1968: lettere H, J, K, N’, Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano, 3 (2020), 188–89, 197–201, 211–215. DOI: 10.30453/087.

Conferences and workshops

  • ‘Esercizi di scrittura: il Liber epistolarum Philippi Venuti Cortonensis’. International doctoral workshop: Cultural Exchanges through Letters between the 14th and 16th Centuries, University of Turin (22–23 January 2025);

  • ‘(Self-)Portrayals of Teachers and Students in Sixteenth-century School Exercises and Manuals’. Northern Early Modern Network Conference, University of Edinburgh (11–12 June 2024).

Internships

  • One-month internship at the University Library of Naples, CERL Internship and Placement Grants, October–November 2024. Cataloguing 40 incunables at Naples UL and creation of new entries for both the MEI (Material Evidence in Incunabula) and the OOI (Owners Of Incunabula) databases.

Teaching experience

  • Class on Latin and Vernacular (module name: Topics in Renaissance Thought and Culture), 27 January 2025, University of Warwick.