Claudia Chierichini, Ph.D. 2006
She received her laurea in Italian Literature and Classics (1996) from the University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’ with a thesis on Dante and the Roman Satirists, her M.A. in Archival Sciences, Paleography, and Diplomatics (1999) from the Archivio di Stato di Roma, and her Ph.D. in Italian Literature (2006) from Yale University with a dissertation on the dramatic production of the Congrega dei Rozzi in Siena, 1531-1552. Her research interests in Medieval and Renaissance literature and culture include the tradition of Classical literature, the dynamics between popular and cultivated literatures, the intersections between literature and the figurative arts, material culture and intellectual history, Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and Renaissance drama. She has published articles, essays, and encyclopedia entries on Dante Alighieri, Veronica Franco, Antonio Vignali, Luca Contile, the Congrega dei Rozzi, Mario Guarnacci, Margherita Sarfatti and Bernard Berenson. She is currently working on a three-volume edition of the body of texts produced by the Congrega dei Rozzi during the first half of the Sixteenth century.
Dissertation: Dissertation: “Rude Mechanicals in Sixteenth-Century Siena: the Congrega dei Rozzi, 1531-1552”