Dr Francesco Feriozzi

Projects

Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (2026–2032)

• 2026–2028: Principal Investigator of the project IRP04:
  Tangible Politics: The Transmission of Dante Alighieri’s Monarchia (ca. 1350–1559)

Profile

Francesco Feriozzi is a postdoctoral researcher at UWA.  He holds a doctorate in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford and from 2023 to 2025 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Notre Dame within the project The Canon of Dante’s Works, 1300–1600.

His chief research interest lies in the transmission and survival of medieval literary texts from the time of their production to the end of the sixteenth century. His monograph on the reception of troubadour poetry in Renaissance Italy, The Second Mother: The Italian Quesitone della lingua and Troubadour Poetry (1500–1574), will be published by Oxford University Press. During his DPhil, Francesco has also produced a critical edition of Giovanni Maria Barbieri’s treatise Arte del rimare which will be published separately.

His current research project, Tangible Politics, examines the reception of Dante Alighieri’s Latin treatise Monarchia from the fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth from the point of view of the manuscripts containing the text, with special concern for its association with other works and for marginal annotations left by copyists and readers.

Research Interests

• Transmission and reception of medieval literature up to the end of the Renaissance
• Dante Alighieri’s works and influence
• Troubadour poetry
• History of philology and linguistic theories in the Renaissance
• Theories and methods of philology
• Alessandro Manzoni’s works