Professor Helena Sanson publishes new book: a modern edition of Isabella Sori’s 1628 Ammaestramenti e ricordi, Difese, Panegirico (Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2021, 312 pp.) The Italian Section is delighted to announce the publication of a new book by Professor Helena Sanson, a modern edition, in Italian, of Isabella...

The Italian Section extends warmest congratulations to former undergraduate Livia Russell who has won the Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Undergraduate Prize 2020 for her Dissertation ‘Contact and intimacy: Mario Giacomelli’s photo-poetic encounters’ . The Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Prize aims to raise the profile...

The Robinson College Sykes Prize has been launched for 2020. The winning prize is £1000, with runners-up awards of £500 and £250 also available. More information can be found here: https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/college-life/arts-literature-and-theology/sykes-prize-2020 All current students are welcome to enter, hopefully...

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Abigail Brundin was given an honourable mention for her jointly authored book The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy (Oxford University Press, 2018) by the Society for Renaissance Studies 2020 book prize. The judges received over forty books this year and the standard was extremely...