• 2018 | Italian National Scientific Habilitation to work as Associate Professor of Italian Literature.
• 2013 | Doctorate, Italian Studies. Universities of Florence, Bonn and Paris 4 Sorbonne.
• 2009 | MA, Medieval and Humanistic Philology. University of Florence.

Academic Positions and Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Spring 2020 ‒ Spring 2023 | Researcher at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich. Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
• Fall 2017 ‒ Spring 2020 | Postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Host institution: Art History Department, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich; academic host: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfisterer.
• Spring 2018 | Fellowship awarded by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien, Innsbruck. Declined due to incompatibility with the Humboldt fellowship.
• Fall 2016 | Fellowship awarded by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, department of Prof. Dr. Alessandro Nova.
• 2015/2016 | Melville J. Kahn fellowship awarded by Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence.
• Spring 2014 | Fellowship awarded by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, New York.

Awards and Honors   

• 2017 | William Nelson Prize awarded by the Renaissance Society of America for the best article published in Renaissance Quarterly during 2016, for “Vincenzo Danti’s Deceits,” co-authored with Michael Cole.
• 2013 | Full publication grant for the doctoral dissertation awarded by the Center of Studies on Italian Literature “Aldo Palazzeschi,” Florence.

Teaching Experience

• Spring 2017 and 2015 | Lecturer of Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, Middlebury College / School in Italy, Florence.
• 2009‒2015 | Teaching fellow of Italian literature (ca. 1300‒1700), University of Florence.

Selected Publications (as of Spring 2020)

Books

• The Poetry of Artists at the Court of Florence. Forthcoming. 
• Cellini, Benvenuto. Rime. Critical study and annotated edition. Florence: Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2014. 586 pp.

Edited Volumes

• Machiavelli, Niccolò. Lettere familiari (National Edition, sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Culture). Critically edited and annotated by Francesco Bausi, Alessio Decaria, Diletta Gamberini, et al. Rome: Salerno Editrice, 2021, 3 vols. Forthcoming.

Edited journal issues

• Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 63.2 (2021), thematic issue “Bad Reception: Expressing Disapproval of Art in Early Modern Italy.” Co-edited with Alessandro Nova and Jonathan Nelson. Forthcoming.

Articles, book chapter and encyclopedia entries

• “Anti-Petrarchist Portraiture or Differently Petrarchist Portraiture? A Literary Outlook on Some Unidealized Female Sitters in Cinquecento Art.” Invited contribution for the volume Petrarch and Cinquecento Portraiture. Eds. Ilaria Bernocchi, Federica Pich, and Nicolò Morelli. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. In progress.
• “The Fiascos of Mimesis: Ancient Models for Renaissance Verse ridiculing Art.” Forthcoming in the Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 63.2 (2021), thematic issue “Bad Reception.”
• “Rappresentare le lacerazioni dell’animo: archetipi letterari dell’amphibolía di Pomponio Gaurico.” Forthcoming in I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 23.2 (Fall 2020).
• “‘... havendo io sempre riconosciuto da voi tutto quello [...] che io so e vaglio’: le diverse militanze michelangioliste di Agnolo Bronzino.” Forthcoming in Letteratura & Arte 18 (2020).
• “Nel nome del fratello: Pietro Vasari e la memorializzazione poetica dell’arte nell’Italia di fine Cinquecento.” Italique‒Poésie italienne de la Renaissance 22 (2019): 81–104.
• “Fra topica e prassi di committenza artistica: Benedetto Varchi e il modello antico del ‘consiglio al pittore.’” Schriften des Italienzentrums der Freien Universität Berlin 3 (2019): 60 –70.
• “‘Divine’ or not? Poetic Responses to the Art of Michelangelo.” Tributes to David Freedberg: Image and Insight. Ed. Claudia Swan. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. 431–42.  
• “Benvenuto Cellini’s Letter to Giovanni Caccini, November 27, 1565 (Chicago, Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 5A 56).” Entry for the Italian Paleography website (project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation): https://italian-paleography.library.utoronto.ca/content/about_IP_036; Newberry Library / University of Toronto / Saint Louis University, 2019.
• “‘Antica purezza e dantesca gravità:’ forme dell’appropriazione della poesia di Michelangelo nella Firenze di Cosimo I.” Italique–Poésie italienne de la Renaissance 21 (2018): 199–233. 
• “The Poetry of the Portraits.” Platz da im Pantheon! Künstler in gedruckten Porträtserien bis 1800. Eds. Annalena Döring, Franz Hefele and Ulrich Pfisterer. Passau: Dietmar Klinger Verlag, 2018. 65−79.
• “The Artist as a Dantista: Francesco da Sangallo’s Dantism in mid-Cinquecento Florence.” Dante Studies 135 (2017): 169–91.
• “La ‘concucia nana’ di Federico Zuccari: critica d’arte in versi all’ombra del Giudizio Universale per la cupola di Santa Maria del Fiore.” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 59.3 (2017): 362–87.
• “I colloqui poetici degli artisti della corte fiorentina con Benedetto Varchi.” La Rivista. Études culturelles italiennes Sorbonne Universités 5 (2017): 61–69.
• “Cellini, Borghini e la disputa sulle esequie di Michelangelo, fra questioni di ‘Paragone’ e di committenza.” Intrecci virtuosi. Letterati, artisti e accademie nell’Italia centrale tra ’500 e ’600. Eds. Carla Chiummo, Antonio Geremicca, and Patrizia Tosini. Rome: De Luca editori d’arte, 2017. 39–50.
• “Vincenzo Danti’s Deceits,” in collaboration with Michael Cole. Renaissance Quarterly 69.4 (Winter 2016): 1296–342.
• “A Bronze Manifesto of Petrarchism: Domenico Poggini’s Portrait Medal of Benedetto Varchi.” I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 19.2 (Fall 2016): 359–83.
• “Benvenuto Cellini, o del sapere ‘pur troppo dire il fatto suo’ a Cosimo de’ Medici.” Annali d’Italianistica 34 (2016): 199–218.
• “Benvenuto Cellini.” Peer-reviewed entry for the Oxford Bibliographies: Renaissance and Reformation: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/renaissance-and-reformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• “Benedetto Varchi, Giovann’Angelo Montorsoli e il Tempio dei ‘Pippi’: un inedito dialogo in versi agli albori dell’Accademia Fiorentina del Disegno.” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 57.1 (2015): 139–44.
• “‘E’ principi grandi hanno per male che un lor servo dolendosi dica la verità delle sue ragioni.’ La censura dei Trattati di Benvenuto Cellini.” Schifanoia 44/45 (2013/2014): 47–62.
• “Una silloge d’autore nelle Rime di Benvenuto Cellini?” Studi di Filologia Italiana. Bollettino dell’Accademia della Crusca 70 (2012): 183–259.
• “Apocrifi celliniani: nove poesie erroneamente attribuite all’artista.” Medioevo e Rinascimento 22 (2011): 93–121.
• “Per una nuova edizione delle Rime di Benvenuto Cellini.” Studi di Filologia Italiana. Bollettino dell’Accademia della Crusca 68 (2010): 175–94.