Marco Faini
PhD
Assistant Professor of Italian
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)