Dante's Education

Gianferrari explores the early education Dante would have received in medieval Florence and its influence on his literary works. He reconstructs literacy instruction in late-medieval Italy to offer a compelling new reading of two of the world most famous literary works, Dante's Vita nova and Commedia.

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Filippo Gianferrari is Assistant Professor of Literature in the Department of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has received a BA and MA in Letteratura italiana from the Università degli Studi di Bologna, and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame. Before joining UCSC, he has taught at Vassar College and Smith College. He works on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, lay education, and political theology in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Filippo has published mostly on the topic of Dante's intellectual formation and Primo Levi.