Dr Eugenio Refini
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Eugenio Refini BA-MA Pisa, University of Pisa/Scuola Normale Superiore PhD Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore
Main Research Interests - Drama, Rhetoric and Poetics in 16th century Italy and France - Latin and Vernacular Reception of Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy - Literature and the Figurative Arts in 15th and 16th century Italian Culture - The Commentary Tradition and the Reception of Horace during the Renaissance - Literary Culture and the Academies (Siena, Florence, Rome)
Profile I studied Italian and French in Pisa (Scuola Normale Superiore and University of Pisa, 2002-2007). I then took my PhD in Italian at the Scuola Normale Superiore (2010). I devoted my MA dissertation (“tesi di laurea”) – which recently appeared as a book – to an unpublished commentary on Horace's Art of Poetry by the humanist and philosopher Alessandro Piccolomini (1508-1579). My PhD project dealt instead with allegorical drama in late Renaissance Italy (I focused on the works of the natural philosopher and writer Fabio Glissenti, based in Venice between the 1590s and 1615). I was visiting student at the University of Geneva (2005-2006) and at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (2005 and 2007-2008). I am member of the “Gruppo di studio sul Cinquecento francese” (http://www.cinquecentofrancese.it/), the network “The History of Physiognomy” (http://physiognomy.history.qmul.ac.uk/) as well as the “Accademia Senese degli Intronati” (http://www.accademiaintronati.it/).
I am currently Research Fellow at the University of Warwick (Department of Italian / Centre for the Study of the Renaissance) within the AHRC project “Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy. 1400-1650” (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/projects/vernaculararistotelianism). |
