Elvira Giosi
Lecturer in Italian
At UNC since 2007

Areas of Research: Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Language Instruction

Telephone: 919-843-2042

Email: giosi@email.unc.edu

Mailing Address:
214 Dey Hall, CB#3170
Dept of Romance Languages & Literatures
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3170

Synopsis:

Elvira Giosi was educated in Italy. She obtained a “Laurea” degree from the University La Sapienza, in Rome, and then came to the United States to complete her Ph.D. in Italian Literature at Rutgers University. She defended her dissertation on Dante’s Divine Comedy in 2005 and since then she has been teaching Italian Language and Literature at Stony Brook University, NY (2005-2006), and St. Louis University (2006-2007). She is at UNC since August 2007.

Bibliography

. La profezia di Beatrice in Purgatorio XXXIII nel contesto delle attese escatologiche francescane, Cosenza, Rubbettino, (forthcoming, 2008).


. « Il problema della volontà nel Secretum del Petrarca», in La Fusta, September 2005.

. «Il concetto di virtù in relazione al fine nel Principe di Machiavelli», in Campi Immaginabili, spring 2006.

. «Ficino ed il sincretismo filosofico nelle Conclusioni amorose del Tasso», in Campi Immaginabili, fall 2006.

. «A Franciscan explanation of Dante’s cinquecento diece e cinque», in The Medieval Franciscan Movement, Volume 2: Dante and the Franciscans, Brill, 2007.

. «La presenza di Seneca nel De vita solitaria», in La Fusta, fall 2006.

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