Armando Maggi
Professor of Italian Literature and the Committee on the History of Culture
Office: Wieboldt 118
amaggi@uchicago.edu
Professor Maggi's scholarship focuses on two major areas: Renaissance culture and contemporary literature. He has also published on female mysticism, early modern philosophy and religion, and the relationship between visual and verbal language. His most recent books are The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and the co-edited volume Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works (University of Chicago Press, 2009). A native of Italy, he earned his PhD at the University of Chicago. His previous books are In the Company of Demons. Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 2006) on the concept of 'familiar spirits' and the philosophy of love in Renaissance culture; Satan's Rhetoric, A Study of Renaissance Demonology (University of Chicago 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). Professor Maggi also has a keen interest in Italian baroque prose and poetry. He has published an article on Emanuele Tesauro's panegyrics on the shroud of Turin (Journal of Religion, fall 2005) and on the baroque view of Saint Francis of Assisi (Studi secenteschi, 2008). Professor Maggi is now writing two books: the first is an analysis of Renaissance and modern fairy tales; the second examines apocalyptic views in early modern Italy and Spain. Professor Maggi has also published more than 60 essays.
Education
- PhD, 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, 1995-1996) and University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (Assistant Professor, 1996-1999)
Selected Courses Taught
- Renaissance Treatises on Love
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Renaissance and Modern Fairy Tales
- Giordano Bruno and Tommaso Campanella
- Torquato Tasso
- La cultura del Seicento
- Italian Women Mystics
- Machiavelli e Guicciardini