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Dr Cecilia Sideri

I am a Senior Researcher and Assistant Professor (holding a Marie Curie-UKRI Guarantee postdoctoral fellowship 2023-2025) in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, where I teach Italian Palaeography, and modules in the MA Renaissance Culture core course. In the academic year 2024-2025 I also convene the STVDIO Seminar series programmeLink opens in a new window. My current project at Warwick examines the influence of Greek texts on the Italian vernacular culture in the Renaissance, with a particular focus on 15th-century Florence. The first results are available in a database (work-in-progress version released in October 2024, available hereLink opens in a new window).

After studying for BA and MA at the Università Cattolica of Milan, I completed my PhD at the University of Venice in 2020. Prior to taking the current position at Warwick, I was Junior Researcher (‘rtd-a’) of Italian Philology at the University of Verona (where I as a member of the LaMeDan research-lab, specialised in the description and digitisation of manuscripts), DAAD Short-term fellow at the Freie Universität of Berlin, as well as Short-term fellow of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck and of the Bibliographical Society of America. I taught a number of courses of Mediaeval and Humanistic Philology, of Italian Linguistics and Latin Palaeography at the University of Verona, and I was adjunct professor of Italian for Communication at the Università Cattolica of Milan.

 

Research interests:

  • Reception of Greek and Latin texts in the Renaissance and in the 19thcentury
  • Manuscript transmission of the Latin classics in the Renaissance
  • History of the Book in the 15thand 16thcentury
  • Latin and Italian Palaeography (15th-16thcentury)
  • Translation studies
  • Textual scholarship

Qualifications:

  • PhD in Italian Studies - Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
  • Diploma in Palaeography, Diplomatics and Archival Studies - States Archives, Milano
  • MA in Italian Philology (‘Filologia moderna’) - Università Cattolica, Milano
  • BA in Humanities (‘Lettere’) - Università Cattolica, Milano