Laura Costanza is a PhD student in Italian Studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. She previously studied at the University of Padua, where she earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.
Her dissertation focuses on Torquato Tasso as a reader of Plato. The project aims to reconstruct Tasso’s engagement with Plato and the influence of Platonism on his theoretical and literary production, based on a study of the marginalia he left in Plato’s Opera omnia in Marsilio Ficino’s translation and commentary (Basilea, Froben, 1539)
More broadly, her research interests include Italian Renaissance literature, with a particular focus on the works of Torquato Tasso, Venetian female lyric poetry (especially Maddalena Campiglia), and the intellectual milieu of Vicenza in the late sixteenth century.