Matteo Pace
Connecticut College, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies (he/lui)
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Matteo Pace is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Connecticut College. In his research, he focuses on the intersections between vernacular cultures and medical thought in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. He is the editor of Dante and the Sciences of the Human: Medicine, Physics, and the Soul (Springer, 2024). His publications focus on Boccaccio’s Decameron in its medical context (Studi sul Boccaccio, 2016; Mediaevalia, 2025), on Giacomo da Lentini and the Aristotelian tradition (Traditio, 2020), on Guido Guinizzelli, Avicenna, and Taddeo Alderotti’s medical philosophy (Romanic Review, 2022), on Catherine of Siena’s theology of blood (Italica, 2022), and on Dante’s relativity of perception (Dante Studies, 2024). He is currently working on a second book manuscript, tentatively titled Of Poets and Physicians: Literature and Medicine in Thirteenth-Century Italy, investigating how the medical milieu of the thirteenth century contributed to shaping vernacular secular culture.
Rome’s Urban Poetry / Poesia Urbana di Roma
This panel invites submissions that explore the rich tradition of urban poetry in the city of Rome: from the material representation of verse in public spaces to the sites of the city as the subjects themselves of poetic creation, Rome has been a city embedded in its people’s words for centuries. From poesia romanesca to Italian-language verse spanning genres and mediums, this session aims to examine Rome both as a city where poetic culture has long played a prime role in its residents’ lives, and as a subject and source of inspiration. Possible topics might include, but are not limited to: anonymous verse; mural poetry and scritture esposte; pasquinate and talking statues; memorials and epigraphs; urban vernacular(s), romanesco, and romanaccio; Rome’s cinema di poesia; poetics of urban architecture; Rome’s political poetry; poetry urbi et orbi…
Matteo Pace
Connecticut College, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies (he/lui)
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