Paola Ugolini

PhD

Director of Graduate Studies

Associate Professor

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

915 Clemens Hall

Spring 2023 office hours

Monday and Friday, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm

Phone: (716) 645-0865

“The Court and Its Critics: Anti-Courtly Sentiment in Early Modern Italy.” (currently under review)
Companion to Pietro Aretino ed. by Marco Faini and Paola Ugolini, (Leiden: Brill) [Forthcoming 2019.]
“Self-Portraits of a Truthful Liar: Satire, Truth-Telling, and Courtliness in Ludovico Ariosto’s Satire and Orlando Furioso,” in S. Jossa and A. Moroncini, “Comedy, Satire, Paradox, and the Plurality of Discourses in Cinquecento Italy,” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 40.1, Winter / Hiver 2017 (Special Issue), 143-60
Veronica Gambara. Complete Poems: A Bilingual Edition. Critical introduction by Molly M. Martin. Edited and translated by Molly M. Martin and Paola Ugolini. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014.
“Paradoxical Virtues: Intellectuals Between the Court and the Academy in Agostino Mascardi’s Che la corte è vera scuola non solamente della prudenza, ma delle virtù morali.” The Italianist 34.1 (Spring 2014): 54-72.
“L’adulterio e la rappresentazione della donna nelle Novelle di Matteo Bandello.” Matteo Bandello: studi di letteratura rinascimentale. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, Vol. 2, Spring 2010.
“The Satirist’s Purgatory: Il Purgatorio delle Cortigiane and the Writer’s Discontent.” Italian Studies 64.1 (Spring 2009): 1–19.

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