Dr Giacomo Comiati

I am currently a researcher in Italian Literature at the Department of Literary and Linguistic Studies of the University of Padua, Italy.

I was recently awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship, which I will begin in April 2026. My project — Lyric Poetry in Venice in the Heterodox Renaissance, 1545–1657 — will examine the impact of Protestant ideas on lyric poetry produced in Catholic Venice during the Tridentine and Post-Tridentine periods.

I read Italian Modern Philology and Literature in Padua, where I also attended the Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori, and then obtained my PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Warwick with a dissertation devoted to the influence of the Latin poet Horace onto sixteenth-century Italy. I then became Junior host research fellow at the Dahlem Humanities Centre of the Freie University in Berlin. Later, I worked as postdoctoral research fellow in the AHRC-funded project 'Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c.1350-c.1650Link opens in a new window', first based at the Warwick Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, and then at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern languages of the University of Oxford.

My research interests mainly concern Renaissance Italian literature, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century poetry in Latin and Italian, Renaissance exegesis, the Early-Modern reception of Latin antiquity, and the works of Boccaccio.