“A letter on Consolation: Innocence and Politics”

A lecture by Elsa Filosa

Elsa Filosa is Assistant Professor of Italian at Vanderbilt University. She holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Laurea in Modern Philology from the Università degli Studi di Milano. Her research focuses on Fourteenth century Italian Literature, with particular emphasis on Boccaccio. She published a book (Tre Studi sul De mulieribus claris. Milan: LED Edizioni Universitarie, 2012), several articles on American and Italian journals, and co-edited the proceedings of the ABA Conference of 2010 and 2013. She has been for two mandates the Secretary of the American Boccaccio Association.

In 2015-2016, she has been the recipient of the Villa I Tatti Fellowship in Florence, where she did research for her next book, titled: The Florentine Conspiracy of 1360: Political Turmoil in Boccaccio’s Life and Work.