Alessandro Vettori, Ph.D. 1995

My book Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage (Brill, 2019) came out last year—and it was time (I started thinking about this project during Prof. Mazzotta’s class in 1990!). I am researching false documents for a book tentatively entitled Fake News Through History and also putting together a collection of essays on Iacopone da Todi with contributions from scholars all around the world. I continue to serve as Graduate Director for the Italian Department at Rutgers and during lockdown I started a virtual coffee with PhD students every Friday; we ended up see each other more frequently (although virtually) than we would on campus.