Marco Faini

PhD

Marco Faini.

Marco Faini

PhD

Marco Faini

PhD

Scholarly Interests

Early modern Italian literature and religious life; satire, comic, and mock-heroic literature; early modern doubt; history of the book; literature and the visual arts.

Education

  • PhD, Università di Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’
  • Laurea, Università di Pavia

Selected Publications

  • Standing at the Crossroads. Stories of Doubt in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge: Legenda / MHRA, forth. 2023).
  • Doubting Women in Early Modern Italy, ed. by Marco Faini (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, forth. 2023).
  • Le doute dans l’Europe moderne, ed. by Élise Boillet and Marco Faini (Turnhout: Brepols, 2022 [Études Renaissantes, 36]).
  • A Companion to Pietro Aretino, ed. by Marco Faini and Paola Ugolini (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2021 [The Renaissance Society of America, 18]).
  • Pietro Bembo: A Life in Laurels and Scarlet (Cambridge: Legenda/MHRA, 2017 and 2018
        - Italian version: La porpora e l’alloro. Vita di Pietro Bembo (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2016, 2018)
         - French version: Le Lauriers et la pourpre: Pietro Bembo (Paris: Éditions Somogy, 2016)
  • La cosmologia macaronica. L’universo malinconico del Baldus di Teofilo Folengo (Manziana: Vecchiarelli, 2010)

Courses Taught

  • Masterpieces of Italian Literature
  • Medieval and Renaissance Worlds in Movies
  • Italian conversation and composition
  • Italian for Reading Knowledge

Recent Grants and Awards

  • Visiting Professor fellowship, ICUB, The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest, 2021-22
  • European Research Council Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Fellowship, Universities of Venice and Toronto, 2018-21
  • Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2016-17

Affiliations

  • Member, international Research Group Emodir (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism)
  • Member, International Research Group Cinquecento plurale
  • Member (Socio corrispondente), Ateneo di Brescia. Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Arti (est. 1802)
  • Member (Socio Ordinario), Accademia Raffaello, Urbino (est. 1869)