Paola Ugolini

PhD

Paola Ugolini.

Paola Ugolini

PhD

Paola Ugolini

PhD

Scholarly Interests

Early modern Italian literature, culture and conduct manuals; Satire; Chivalric poems; Gender studies

Education

  • PhD, New York University
  • MA, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia
  • Laurea, Università di Bologna

Selected Publications

Books:

  • The Court and Its Critics. Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020
  • A Companion to Pietro Aretino, ed. by Marco Faini and Paola Ugolini. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021
  • Veronica Gambara. Complete Poems: A Bilingual Edition. Critical introduction by Molly M. Martin. Ed. and trans. by Molly M. Martin and Paola Ugolini. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014
  • Women Warriors in the Early Modern World, co-edited with Lucia Gemmani. Under contract with Amsterdam University Press

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Essays:

  • “Doubt and Self-Assertion in Gaspara Stampa’s Rime,” Women as Agents of Doubt in Early Modern Italy, ed. by Marco Faini. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming
  • “The Pen is the Sword: The Language of Battle in Veronica Franco’s Rime,” Quaderni d’Italianistica, 44.3, Fall 2024
  • “Gaspara Stampa e Paola Antonia Negri: nuove proposte di lettura,” Rivelazioni, letture, preghiere. Donne nell’Italia della prima età moderna, ed. by Erminia Ardissino and Elisabetta Selmi. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, November 2023
  • “‘Il poter dir.’ Sincerity, Truth, and Faithfulness in Orlando Furioso 37,” I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Vol.25, No.1, Spring 2022, 69-88
  • “‘Voi del Vostro honor habiate cura.’ Note sul sonetto 94 di Gaspara Stampa,” Schede Umanistiche vol. 31, dicembre 2018 (published in 2019), 83-102
  • “Self-Portraits of a Truthful Liar. Satire, Truth-Telling, and Courtliness, in Ludovico Ariosto’s Satire and Orlando Furioso,” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 40.1, Winter / Hiver 2017 (Special Issue), 143-60
  • “The Satirist’s Purgatory: ‘Il Purgatorio delle Cortigiane’ and the Writer’s Discontent,” Italian Studies, Vol. 64 No. 1, Spring 2009, 1–19

Creative Writing:

  • “Poems,” Italian Poetry Review, no. XIX, 2024
  • “Poemas,” translated by Nuno Brito, InComunidade, January 31, 2024

Courses Taught

  • The Italian Renaissance
  • Italian Theater
  • The Italian Novella
  • Dante’s Divine Comedy
  • Italian Conversation and Civilization

Recent Grants and Awards

  • Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Villa I Tatti, Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2014-15 academic year

Affiliations

  • Member, international research group Cinquecento plurale