Simona Lorenzini

Simona Lorenzini is a Senior Lector in the Department of Italian Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Humanist and Renaissance Civilization from the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (Florence, 2008) and a Ph.D. in Italian and Renaissance Studies from Yale University (2016). Her research centers on medieval and early modern Italian literature, with a particular focus on Boccaccio’s Latin and vernacular works, the pastoral genre, and early modern women. Simona recently co-edited Women’s Agency and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Tuscany, 1300-1600 (Viella, 2022) with Deborah Pellegrino. Other publications include: “Et, ben che spesso semplice paura / solare eclypse or squarciar nuvolette / faccia:” Giovanni Boccaccio as Natural Thinker,” in Giornale di Filosofia (forthcoming, 2025); “Mirroring and Finding Herself in the Pastoral Spring: The Myth of Narcissus in Isabella Andreini’s La Mirtilla,” in Imagined Networks in Pre-Modern Italian Literature. Literary Mothers, Literary Sisters, edd. E. Buonocore and G. Cardillo (Lexington Books, 2024); “A Flower in the Garden: Devotional Advice and Rhetorical Strategies in Brigida Baldinotti’s Letters,” in Women’s Agency and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Tuscany (1300-1600); “The Tale of Pinuccio and Niccolosa (IX.6),” in The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective, edd. S. Barsella and S. Marchesi (University of Toronto Press, 2022); La corrispondenza bucolica tra Giovanni Boccaccio e Checco di Meletto Rossi e L’egloga di Giovanni del Virgilio ad Albertino Mussato (Leo S. Olschki, 2011).