College: St Catharine's College听听听听听听听
Email: sm2388@cam.ac.uk
Supervisor: Prof Abigail Brundin
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Research Topic: Renaissance women鈥檚 writing and literary mourning
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About
Simone completed his听BA (2016) and MA (2018) summa cum laude听in Italian Literature from the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore, where he worked under the supervision of Prof Lina Bolzoni. His Bachelor鈥檚 thesis focused on Franco Fortini鈥檚 metrics and their connection with his poetics and theory of art. In his MA thesis, under the supervision of Prof Maria Cristina Cabani and Prof Alberto Casadei, Simone studied the topos of the mort d鈥檃mour in Renaissance lyric poetry and culture.
Simone鈥檚 main research interests are Renaissance women鈥檚 writing, Petrarch and the tradition of lyric poetry, with a particular focus on literary imitation, and the relationship between literature and social and cultural history. Other research interests include Italian contemporary literature, especially Pasolini and Fortini, and cinema.
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Research听听听听听听听
Simone is working on the genre of in morte poems by Renaissance women writers. His main research questions revolve around the problematic aspects of mourning and its gendered connotations: he is trying to explore how lyric poetry and social norms on mourning, and female mourning in particular, interacted.
His aim is to understand how these poets created a new public language, crafting their voice between the previous literary tradition, longstanding cultural stereotypes and representations about female mourning, and the social, cultural and ideological context of the time. Simone is undertaking a close reading of the texts that considers how the literary and hyper-codified language of Petrarchan lyric poetry might be subjected to profound revisions related to the new historical and cultural context and to the female gender.
In parallel with this work, Simone is also interrogating what this publicization of private grief meant for the four women writers and how it worked within their local networks both as literary work and as public discourse. He is trying to answer the question of what, in general, the function of this public mourning was, between memorialisation of the deceased husband, self-fashioning strategies, and social and literary mourning practices.
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Scholarships/Prizes
Sykes Studentship in Italian [2019-2022].
Funding for Cross-Faculty Research Seminars - Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, 澳门六合彩开奖记录 [2021-2022].
Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference Travel Award [September 2021].
Language Grant - St. Catharine鈥檚 College, 澳门六合彩开奖记录 [June 2021].
European Union Erasmus+ Traineeship Programme Funding [2018-2019].
Full Scholarship Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa [2013-2018].
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Teaching听听听听听听听
Supervisor for the first-year paper听 [2020-21 and 2021-22].
Supervisor for the paper IT8: Italian Literature, Thought, and Culture, 1500-1650 [2021-22]
Language Assistant for ITA1: Use of Italian [2021-22]
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Conference papers
鈥楾he Genre of in morte Poetry and the Early Modern Italian Female Voice鈥�. Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, San Diego, 28th-31st October 2021.
鈥楧eath Rites and Contagious Diseases: The Plague and Ritual Mourning in Boccaccio and Petrarch鈥�, From Dante to the present day: disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics in language, literature and culture, University of Split, 23rd-24th September 2021.
鈥楪ender, Genre, Role Model: Connecting the In Morte Poems of Sixteenth-Century Women Writers鈥�, Connections - Italian Graduate Conference 2021, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics - 澳门六合彩开奖记录, 17th-18th June 2021.
鈥楾he BBC Series Peaky Blinders and Machiavelli鈥檚 The Prince: A New Understanding of Machiavellianism in English Popular Media?鈥� - Roundtable 鈥橫achiavelli in Contemporary Media鈥�, American Association for Italian Studies Virtual Conference, 28th May-6th June 2021.
鈥楾he Genre of In Morte Poetry by Renaissance Women Writers: How to Reconcile Text and Context?鈥�, Questions - Italian Graduate Conference 2020, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics - 澳门六合彩开奖记录, 12th-13th October 2020.
鈥樷�淥rmai son fatta la madre della Malinconia鈥�: Francesca Turina鈥檚 Mourning Experiences and her Negotiation of Literary and Social Agency鈥�, Recovering Women's Identities between Centre and Periphery (16th-20th Centuries), Institute of Modern Languages Research - University of London, 5th-6th March 2020.
鈥楾ra metrica barbara e metrica biblica. Usi e funzioni dei versi lunghi in Franco Fortini鈥�, Il secolo di Franco Fortini. Conversazioni nel centenario della nascita, University Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski in Warsaw and Centro Studi Franco Fortini in Siena, 19th-20th May 2017.
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Publications
Articles
Simone Monti, 鈥楲a rabbia (1963): il film-saggio e la funzione-Benjamin nel cinema di Pasolini鈥�, The Italianist (2021), .
Simone Monti, 鈥楿n aspetto del petrarchismo di Bembo: il topos della morte per amore鈥�, Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, 12 (2020), pp. 165-201.
Simone Monti, 鈥楲e spie dell鈥檃ffanno. L鈥檈ndecasillabo dattilico tra Foglio di via e Poesia ed errore di Franco Fortini鈥�, Italianistica, 47 (2018), pp. 213-224.
Book chapters
Simone Monti, 鈥榃idows, poetry, and portraits: Livia Spinola and Francesca Turina on the portraits of their dead husbands鈥�, in Petrarch and Portraiture in Sixteenth-Century Italy, Amsterdam University Press (AUP), forthcoming.
Simone Monti, 鈥樷�淢ostragli nel mio cor l鈥檈ssempio vero鈥�: Marino e il ritratto della sua donna nella Galeria鈥�, in Parola all鈥檌mmagine. Esperienze dell鈥檈cfrasi da Petrarca a Marino, edited by Andrea Torre (Lucca: Maria Pacini Fazzi editore, 2019).
Simone Monti, 鈥楾ra metrica barbara e metrica biblica. Usi e funzioni dei versi lunghi in Franco Fortini鈥�, in Il secolo di Franco Fortini. Coversazioni nel centenario della nascita, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Varsavia (Roma: Artemide, 2019).
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Other activities and roles
Academic roles and research activities
Founder and co-organiser of the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Renaissance Seminar - Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics - 澳门六合彩开奖记录 [October 2021-Present].
Co-organiser of the Reading group Early Modern Women鈥檚 Writing [October 2021-Present].
Organiser of the Graduates鈥� and Fellows鈥� Research Seminar at St. Catharine鈥檚 College - 澳门六合彩开奖记录 [September 2021-Present]
MCR Education O铿僣er at St. Catharine鈥檚 College - 澳门六合彩开奖记录 [August 2021-Present].
Book Reviewer for the Renaissance Society of America [May 2021-Present].
Director of the student-led academic invites for Italian Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa [2016-17 and 2017-18].
Fieldwork Research at the Franco Fortini Archive in Siena [August 2016].
Public Engagement and Outreach Activities
Participation in the conception of the video Labirinto Ariosto 鈥� Giocare col Furioso attraverso i secoli (2018) by Lorenzo Garzella and Filippo Macelloni, produced by Nanof under the supervision of Prof Lina Bolzoni on the 500th anniversary of Orlando Furioso鈥檚 first publication [2017-2018].
Participation in the Public Reading of Ariosto鈥檚 Orlando Furioso (鈥楶isa legge l鈥橝riosto. Lettura pubblica itinerante dell鈥橭rlando Furioso鈥�) [June 2016].
Outreach Activity for the Scuola Normale Superiore at the highschool Liceo Classico-Scienti铿乧o Ariosto-Spallanzani in Reggio Emilia [May-June 2014].
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