Simone Marchesi

Simone Marchesi is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Princeton University. His main research interest is the dialogue established with Latin classics by Italian writers from the medieval period, in particular Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. He has published two monographs in this field: Stratigrafie decameroniane (2004) and Dante and Augustine: Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics (2011). He has translated into Italian Robert Hollander’s monumental commentary on Dante’s Comedy (2011) and has recently edited the school version of the same commentary (Dante, La Commedia, 2016). His current research concerns medieval ideas about translation, as they are reflected in twelfth-to fifteenth-century vernacular fictions, a study provisionally entitled The Tower and the Garden.