Caterina holds a B.A. in Italian Philology from the Sapienza University of Rome, with a thesis on the commentary to the canzone Donna me prega by the Florentine academician Paolo Del Rosso. Her work included a diplomatic transcription and a critical philological study of the commentary, drawing attention to a text transmitted through a single 1568 edition.
She earned an M.A. in Italian Philology from the Sapienza University of Rome with a dissertation on the debate over the gnoseological value of literature, traced from Plato and Aristotle to Petrarch and Boccaccio.
She is currently working on her dissertation, provisionally titled The Origins of Civil Community: Dynamics of Violence, Power, and Consent in Boccaccio’s Literary Corpus. The project investigates the “political” in Giovanni Boccaccio’s literary corpus, examining how dynamics of violence, power, consent, and dissent structure social and civil coexistence.
Caterina's research interests focus on early Italian lyric poetry, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Her related interests include manuscript culture, reception studies, and the interplay between philosophy, political theory, and literature in the Middle Ages.
Recent Courses in RLL
- ITAL 23425 Love in the Middle Ages (Spring 2025)