Armando Maggi
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
1115 E. 58th Street.
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: Wieboldt 118
Phone: 773/702-8481
Email: amaggi@uchicago.edu
Professor, Italian Literature and the College, and Committee on History of Culture
Professor Maggi's scholarship includes works on Renaissance and baroque culture, literature, and philosophy with particular focus on treatises on love, religious texts, and the relationship of word and image. Prof. Maggi is also an expert of Christian mysticism, with works on medieval, Renaissance, and baroque women mystics. His latest works are, however, a book on the modern poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini and an edited volume on Petrarch. A native of Italy, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. His latest books are In the Company of Demons. Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance (U of C Press, early 2006) on the concept of 'familiar spirits' and the philosophy of love in Renaissance culture; Satan's Rhetoric, A Study of Renaissance Demonology (U of C Press, 2001); and a critical edition of Guido Casoni's treatise (1591) Della magia d'amore (Palermo: Sellerio, 2003). He is also the author of Uttering the Word (Suny, 1998) on the mystic Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, and Identità e impresa rinascimentale (Longo, 1998). Prof. Maggi also has a keen interest in Italian baroque prose and poetry. He has completed an article on Emanuele Tesauro's panegyrics on the shroud of Turin (Journal of Religion, fall 2005). Prof. Maggi is now writing a series of essays on self-commentaries written by late Renaissance poets, including Torquato Tasso. Prof. Maggi's new book The Resurrection of the Body. Pasolini From Saint Paul To Sade will come out with the University of Chicago Press. The same press will also publish The Panoptycal Petrarch, which prof. Maggi has edited with Prof. Victoria Kirkham. Prof Maggi has published more than 60 essays.
Education
- Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1995.
- Laurea in Lettere, Università degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza, 1982
Awards, Honors and Professional Experience
Full time positions at Purdue University (Visiting Assistant Professor, 1995-96) and University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (Assistant Professor, 1996-99).
Selected Courses Taught
Renaissance Treatises on Love; Pier Paolo Pasolini; Giordano Bruno and Tommaso Campanella; Torquato Tasso; La cultura del Seicento; Italian Women Mystics; Machiavelli e Guicciardini.