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 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 Classics at University of Sassari (2019).

Her research interests include Renaissance education, Neo-Latin and the history 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 Dino Manca and Luigi Matt (Sassari: Edes, 2025), pp. 7–8, 20–22, 26–36, 39–40, 71–76, 84–89, 109–17, 119–20, 123–25, 153–57, 166–68, 177–86, 267–69. ISBN: 9788860256478;
‘Per un vocabolario storico della terminologia codicologica, diplomatica e paleografica’, Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano, 7 (2024), pp. 198–205;
‘Contributi sparsi. Lemmi singoli: “carta nuragografica”, “nuragologia”, “nuragologico”, “nuragologo”, “protonuraghe”, “pseudonuraghe”’, Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano, 7 (2024), pp. 156, 161–63, 165–66;
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), pp. 159‒61;
‘Contributi sparsi. Lemmi singoli: “medionuragico”, “paleonuragico”, “postnuragico”, “prenuragico”, “protonuragico”, “tardonuragico”’, Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano, 6 (2023), pp. 142–44, 146–51. DOI: 10.30453/144;
‘Retrodatazioni da un manoscritto scolastico di metà Cinquecento’, Studi linguistici italiani, 49.1 (2023), pp. 161‒70. DOI: 10.61001/112459;
‘Contributi sparsi. Lemmi singoli: “elfico”, “gnomico”, “nanica”, “nanico”’, Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano, 5 (2022), pp. 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), pp. 188–89, 197–201, 211–215. DOI: 10.30453/087.

Conferences and workshops

‘Explaining Cicero at School: A Sixteenth-Century Classroom Dialogue on the Interpretatio of the De officiis’. International Association for Neo-Latin Studies Conference, Aix-en-Provence (14–19 July 2025);
With Luigi Silvano, ‘Le «Epistulae Magni Turci» di Laudivio Zacchia come esercizi di scrittura’. International conference: Falsum est, mihi crede! Percorsi del falso letterario tra Antichità e Rinascimento, Sapienza University of Rome (4 June 2025);
‘Learning Latin in the Sixteenth Century: Manuscript Exercises of Translation and Letter Writing’. Renaissance Society of America Conference, Boston (20–22 March 2025);
‘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

Latin for Research: Beginner’s level intense short course, University of Warwick (May 2025);
Class on Latin and Vernacular (module name: Topics in Renaissance Thought and Culture), University of Warwick (27 January 2025).