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Modern Languages Student One of Eight Students Honoured in the University’s Encaenia Ceremony

Perpetua Haydn Taylor (French and Italian, New College) was one of eight students honoured in the University’s Encaenia ceremony.

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UKRI funded project on African collections in Italian museums begins

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Dr Luigi Pinton has secured a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the Faculty

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Greek Studies in 15th Century Europe

"Greek Studies in 15th Century Europe" is a Marie Curie individual research project held by Dr. Paola Tomè and financed by the European Union at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages in Oxford.

Italian Research Seminar

About The Italian Research seminar is convened by DPhil students and seeks to bring together members of the sub-faculty at all levels (professors, researchers, and students), as well as anyone interested in any aspect of Italian studies.

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Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c. 1350-c. 1650

This collaborative research project was funded for 3 years (1 January 2017-31 December 2019) by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project was led by Prof.

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Books

‘Dreaming again on things already dreamed’: 500 years of Orlando furioso (1516-2016)

The Argentinian poet Jorge Luis Borges, whose visionary poem ‘Ariosto y los árabes’ inspired the title of this book, defined Ariosto’s Orlando furioso as a dream.

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Cultural Reception, Translation and Transformation from Medieval to Modern Italy

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Book cover of Emma Bond's Curating Worlds

Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature

Emma Bond, Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies, has published a monograph showing how museum practices shed new light on literary form. How and why do books deploy objects in order to narrate the past?

Dante in Oxford

Oxford University's Paget Toynbee Fund has sponsored a number of significant initiatives on Dante in recent years, first a series of Lectures starting in the mid-1990s, and more recently a number of...