Laura Ciffolillo
Laura Ciffolillo is a PhD student in Italian Studies at Rome's “La Sapienza” University, under joint supervision with Aix-Marseille University (ED 354, Centre Aixois d'Études Romanes) and University “Autónoma” of Madrid (IULCE, Instituto Universitario “La Corte en Europa”). She holds a double degree in literature with an Italian-French partnership (Alma Mater Università di Bologna / Université d'Alsace de Mulhouse - Strasbourg), and a Master's degree in Italian Studies, Linguistics and European Literary Cultures (Università degli Studi di Bologna).
The project
Title: The gift in European Renaissance culture
"The project proposes the study of the phenomenon of the gift in Renaissance literature and art, based in particular on its literary narration. It's a subject that falls within the field of the most recent studies, dedicated to highlighting the relationship between literary production, the socio-political context and artistic production of the period. In particular, the reference corpus is made up of “books of letters” (i.e. the collection of an author's correspondence organized and published by himself), but also by art treatises and artists' biographies - texts belonging to the new literary genres characteristic of the 16th century and new literary forms that spread from Italy to the European continent. The common denominator of the research is the consideration of reports of gratitude and testimonies of artistic gifts that played a major role in the construction and canonization of the classicism paradigm. The main objective is, on the one hand, to study the multiple facets of the gift between historical and political reality; secondly, to highlight the fictional construction of an anthropological phenomenon such as giving.."
Hosting institution: Aix-Marseille University
Selective Bibliography
- Décembre 2021 : Ciffolillo, L., Fortuna e contrasti mediali nella lectura Dantis: ‘la lettera e la voce’, («Destin et médialisation dans la lectura Dantis : ‘la lettre et la voix’ »), dans la revue Diacritica, numéro thématique dirigé par M. Panetta, VII, fasc. 5 (41), déc. 2021. (Journal ANVUR Classe A : périodique scientifique)