The Center for Italian Studies is pleased to announce that Roberto Rea, Associate Professor of Italian Philology at Roma-Tor Vergata, and currently Fulbright scholar at the University of Chicago, will come to Notre Dame to give a seminar on Dante’s Vita nova.
Roberto Rea has been teaching Italian Philology and Dante Philology at Tor Vergata University of Rome since 2016. He mainly deals with Medieval literature, in particular the poetry of Stilnovo and Dante; he has also published numerous essays on the subsequent poetic tradition, from Leopardi to Montale. His interests include textual criticism, linguistics, manuscript tradition, intertextuality; representation of emotions, and ecocriticism.
At Tor Vergata University of Rome he is Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Modern Philology; Member of the Board of the Doctorate in “Comparative Studies”; Research Coordinator of the Department; Member of the Department’s Teaching Committee. He currently is Fulbright Chair Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Chicago, for Spring 2023.
He has published the books Studi leopardiani (Pisa, ETS, 2001); Stilnovismo cavalcantiano e tradizione cortese (Roma, Bagatto, 2007); Cavalcanti poeta. Uno studio sul lessico lirico (Roma, Nuova Cultura, 2008); a commented edition of Guido Cavalcanti's Rime (Roma, Carocci, 2011); a critical edition of Lapo Gianni's Rime (Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2019); Dante: guida alla Vita nuova (Roma, Carocci, 2021). He also edited the volumes Dal paesaggio all’ambiente. Sentimento della natura nella tradizione poetica italiana (Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2020) e Dante (with Justin Steinberg; Roma, Carocci, 2020). Some of his most recent essays are «Hector ubi est?». Ancora su «Inferno» X”, in Dante e la poesia in volgare del Due e Trecento (2023); Un’idea eliotiana di Dante per il Montale degli Ossi in L’Ellisse (2022); Early Italian Lyric, in Oxford Handbook of Dante (2021).