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Doctoral Fellowship Competition: *DEADLINE 31ST MAY*The Department is offering one fully-funded fellowship for PhD study, starting October 2012. The deadline for applications is 31st May 2012. Click here for further details. Success in Research Funding: THREE new awardsIn 2012, the Department has been awarded three major research grants and fellowships:
1. AHRC Major Research Grant on 'Dante and Late Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice, and Society', a collaborative project between the Italian departments at Leeds and Warwick, in which Professor Simon Gilson is the lead Warwick investigator. The project runs from February 2012 to July 2015.
2. Dr Eva Del Soldato, a PhD graduate of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, will be coming to Warwick's Department of Italian in September 2012 for a two-year Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship.
Her project studies the role of Antonio Brucioli (c. 1498-1566) in the vernacularization and dissemination of the works of Aristotle in sixteenth-century Florence and Venice. A figure largely ignored in modern scholarship, Brucioli represents a crucial intersection of religious and philosophical interests and of informal contexts of learning. Eva's research will lead to the first sustained study of this figure in 70 years, contributing to the new wave of interest in the spread of Aristotle’s works in the vernacular throughout the Italian peninsula. Eva will be mentored by Dr David Lines (the project's scientist in charge), who is leading an AHRC-funded project on 'Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy, c. 1400-c. 1650'. Further details on this project can be viewed here. 3. Dr Pietro Podolak will join the Departments of Italian and Classics as a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow in 2012-13, working on 'The Revival of Plato in Renaissance Florence'. His mentor is Dr Maude Vanhaelen. |
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