A curiosity for meat-loving aficionados of Italian literature: Antonio Frizzi (Ferrara, 1736-1800) wrote "La Salameide," a magniloquent 2,000-line poem in praise of salami, sausages, and other pork-derived cold-cuts.

Enjoy: https://www.google.ca/books/edition/La_Salameide_poemetto_giocoso_con_le_not/8qMtGl1Im3oC?hl=en&gbpv=0

@histodons @litstudies @italianstudies

My latest peer-reviewed essay is out in the latest issue of Bibliotheca Dantesca:

In "Foul Tales, Public Knowledge: Bringing Dante's Divine Comedy to Wikipedia," I discuss a pedagogical experiment I've nicknamed WikiDante: teaching students how to be activists and digital public historians by changing entries related to Dante on #Wikipedia.

The essay (open-access) is available here: https://repository.upenn.edu/bibdant/vol5/iss1/9/

I really see this essay as an invitation to other instructors in premodern studies to run similar projects; I'm really grateful to other medievalists who set examples that inspired WikiDante!

#medieval #litstudies #pedagogy #digitalhumanities @medievodons @litstudies

🚨 FELLOWSHIP KLAXON! 🚨

Have you received your Ph.D. in Italian Studies after Jan. 30, 2018? Come work with me! The Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto is accepting applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship starting July 1, 2023.

📅 Due date Jan. 30, 2023. Please share widely! Link: https://www.italianstudies.utoronto.ca/about-us/employment-opportunities/postdoctoral-fellow-positions #italianstudies @litstudies @histodons @medievodons @intellectualhistory

portrait of a woman on fire

Wenzel Jamnitzer and Abraham Jamnitzer, Statuette of Daphne with Coral Tines (c. 1580-86); Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen

#arthistory #art #Renaissance #earlymodern

My latest article, "Bloodstained Books in Renaissance Sicily: The Library of Matteo Barresi, Marquis of Pietraperzia," is out! Incredibly grateful to I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance for hosting this side project of mine—which triangulates book collecting, princely fantasies & murder in sixteenth-century Sicily.

Link: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/721730

(Get in touch if you don't have access and would like to read it! I'll send you a DM with a copy.)

#earlymodern #Renaissance #manuscripts #histodons #bookhistodons #bookhistory #manuscriptstudies #litstudies #rarebooks @histodons @litstudies @bookhistodons

having fun in the hot springs of Pozzuoli

Peter of Eboli, De balneis Puteolanis; BAV MS Barb. lat. 311 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.311 #histodons #manuscripts #medieval #bookhistory #bookhistodons @histodons

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Photo: David Rowlands, The Store Room or Warehouse of the Praiseworthy Art of the Pen (Netherlands, 1616), Newberry Library, Wing folio ZW 646.R622

Tomorrow at 12 EST! Super excited to join this conversation with Bryan Brazeau, Natalya Din-Kariuki, David Lines, and Nicholas Terpstra—hosted virtually by Toronto's CRRS and Renaissance Studies at Warwick.

Hope to see you there! Link to register: https://crrs.ca/crrsevents/global-renaissance-roundtable/ #histodons #litodons #earlymodern #renaissance

Hello, people of #Mastodon!

Time for a quick #introduction: I am a literary historian, so I'm looking forward to meet fellow #litodons, #histodons, and everything in between.

I will mostly toot on:

- Late #medieval, #Renaissance and #earlymodern manuscripts from Italy and other areas of Europe and the Mediterranean. Exchanges between languages, cultures, and regions are my jam!

- Everything related to premodern texts and questions of identity-making and community building. That includes gender, race, class, and how they intersect in the history of Italian literature and culture.

- Books, manuscripts, and art, especially from premodern Italy. If something made a premodern reader happy (like the manuscript below), it makes me happy, too.

You can also find me on #twitter: @lauraingalli