Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics
Raised Faculty Building
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
United Kingdom
Nicolò Morelli (PhD Cambridge, 2018) specialises in medieval and early modern Italian literature. Following the completion of his PhD, he became Affiliated Lecturer (2019) in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, where he has most recently attained the position of Teaching Associate in Italian (2022). In recognition of his commitment to professionalism in teaching and learning, he has been an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2018.
During his time at the University of Cambridge, Dr Morelli has contributed to a variety of projects such as the undergraduate-led video interview with writer Dacia Maraini; the Italian Section’s Residential Course in Tuscany; and the design of university admissions tests provided by Cambridge Assessment for the Italian Government. He currently coordinates the Cambridge-Intesa Sanpaolo Fund on behalf of the Faculty’s Italian Section. He strongly supports widening participation at universities and regularly contributes to activities aimed at promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in higher education. Enquiries from current and potential students are welcome.
- Medieval and early modern Italian literature
- Manuscript studies, palaeography, and editorial techniques
- Translation and use of the Italian language
- Animal imagery in medieval and early modern literature
- Petrarch and Occitan poetry
- Petrarch’s transnational reception in England
- Text and visual art in medieval and early modern Italian culture
- Italian humanism
- Textual criticism and philology of Italian literature
Petrarch and Portraiture in Renaissance Italy (co-edited project)
Petrarch and Sixteenth-Century Portraiture, edited by Ilaria Bernocchi, Nicolò Morelli, and Federica Pich (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming)
‘Petrarch’s Deer in Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta 190 and the Visio Beatifica’, Italian Studies, 76.3 (2021), 237–53
‘I sonetti di Lorenzo Moschi’, Studi e Problemi di Critica Testuale, 95.2 (2017), 271–315
