Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages
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University of Cambridge
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Cambridge
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United Kingdom
Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja took up his post as Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian Studies, at Pembroke College in 2013. He studied for his BA in Filologia Medievale e Umanistica at the University of Milan, supervised by Prof. Violetta de Angelis, with a thesis on Dante’s biblical and classical sources. During his time as an undergraduate, he also received training in medieval philosophy at Paris-Sorbonne under the supervision of Prof. Ruedi Imbach. For his MPhil (2009-10) and PhD he studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He completed his doctoral research in 2013 with a dissertation on the legacy of Alexander the Great in Medieval and Early Modern Italy. He is a life-time scholar of Gates Cambridge (the academic branch of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation).
Medieval and early modern cultural history.
Authors and areas of particular interest include: Cecco Angiolieri, Rustico Filippi, Duccio, Cimabue, Giotto, Cavalcanti, Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio; medieval and early modern reception of classical authors; the medieval Alexander; the magic lore; dream books and dream interpretation; all aspects of medieval and early Renaissance Italian poetry and poetics; palaeography and codicology; volgarizzamenti; criminal legal theories and practices; interdisciplinary readings (literature and law, visual culture, music, theology and philosophy).
Dr Camozzi’s current research interests centre on satire, and the criminal and legal history of insults. He is also writing a book on parabolic epistemology in Dante, Giotto and Sufism.
SATYRANDO – Criminal, Literary & Visual History of Insults in Late Medieval Italy
Frames From a Student Round Table: Paradiso XV - http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2203916
Articles
- Dante & the Medieval Alexander [forthcoming] (2018)
- Vita di Alessandro con figure secondo il manoscritto Cracovia, Biblioteca Jagellonica, Ital. Quart. 33 (olim Firenze, Bibl. Ricc. 1222) [Turnhout: Brepols] (2017)
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‘Le illustrazioni del Romanzo di Alessandro in Italia tra Due e Trecento con una nota sul manoscritto Lipsia, Universitätsbibliothek, Rep. II. 4°.143’ in Per I romanzi di Alessandro Magno. Storie, incontri, tradizioni testuali, ed by Giuseppina Brunetti [Bologna : Bononia University Press] (2018)
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‘Ugolino and the Practice of Divination through Dreams’ in Dante’s Volume from Alpha to Omega, Yale University, March 26-28 2010, ed by Carol Chiodo, Christiana Purdy Moudarres [Tempe Ariz.: ACMRS] (2018)
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‘19. Inside Out’ in Vertical Readings in Dante’s “Comedy”, ed by George Corbett and Heather Webb [Cambridge: Open Book Publishers] (2016)
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‘Profeta e satiro. A proposito di Inferno XIX’ Dante Studies, 133 (2015), pp. 27-45
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‘Il quarto del Convivio. O della satira’ Le Tre Corone, 1 (2014), pp. 27-53
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‘The Oneirocriticon of Achmet in the West – A Contribution Towards an Edition of Leo Tuscus’ Translation’ Studi Medievali, 55 (2014), pp. 719-758
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‘Un re sulla soglia del Paradiso terrestre – Per una lettura divinatoria del primo sogno di Dante’ in Miscellanea di studi in memoria di Violetta de Angelis, ed. by Giancarlo Alessio, Filippo Bognini [Pisa : ETS] (2013), pp. 243-259
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‘Il veglio di Creta alla luce di Matelda - Una lettura comparativa di Inferno XIV e Purgatorio XXVIII’ The Italianist, 29.1 (2009), pp. 3-49
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‘Una possibile fonte per l’antropofagia cranica, le cagne, le lune e il sogno di Ugolino’ Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, 19/12/2008
