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Dr. Igor Candido

Associate Professor (Italian)
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 candidoi@tcd.ie

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Biography

Igor Candido is Associate Professor in Italian at Trinity College Dublin. He holds two doctoral degrees in Italian literature, a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University (2011) and a Dr.Phil. from the University of Turin, Italy (2009). In 2013-2014 he was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship to conduct research at Freie Universität Berlin. He has lectured and taught in Italy, the US, Germany, Ireland and written on Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Poliziano, De Sanctis, Pascoli, Emerson, Longfellow. He has provided the critical edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson's translation of Dante's Vita nuova (Aragno editore, 2012) as well as a monograph on Boccaccio as reader and imitator of Apuleius of Madauros (Boccaccio umanista. Studi su Boccaccio e Apuleio, Longo editore, 2014). He has just finished editing a volume titled Petrarch and Boccaccio. The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World (Walter De Gruyter, 2018) and is currently working on a new commented edition of Petrarch's The Life of Solitude (Toronto University Press, under contract). He is also editing a special issue of Ecdotica(Carocci editore, 2025). His new research project is tentatively titled "The Prehistory of the Novel. Studies in the Origins and Silent Transmission of Western Narrative Fiction." He is one of the editors of: Lettere italiane, and Archivio Novellistico Italiano and is a member of the scientific board of the "Rassegna Europea della Letteratura Italiana" and "Griselda Online". He collaborates with Italian and American journals such as "L'Indice dei libri del mese" and "Modern Language Notes".

Research Projects

 Petrarch and Boccaccio as Pre-Modern Humanists
 Global Humanities Junior Research and Teaching Stay at Freie Universitaet Berlin

Representations

Details Date
Member of the International Research Network of the University of Turin "Institutions of the novel". My contribution is to the study of the prehistory of the literary genre. 2022
Member of BONHUM Boccace Numérique Humaniste (Boccace Digital Humanist). Model of Digital Publishing of Texts and French Translations of Boccaccio. BoNHum is pilot project that proposes a publishing prototype combining fundamental research with the new digital technologies, in order to provide scholars with a new approach to canonical texts. This PRCI project has the ambition to promote Boccaccio's work as a cultural and literary heritage of Europe in age of Humanism. PI: Dr. Sabrina Ferrara. 2020
Member of 2017-2019 TEEBOC [Translated Electronic Edition Boccaccio texts with Commentary]: This project brings together a Groupement de Recherche International (GDRI) dedicated to the annotation, translation and digitalization of the entire corpus of Giovanni Boccaccio"s works. The Principal Investigator is Dr. Sabrina Ferrara (Centre d"études supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François-Rabelais, Tours). Dr Igor Candido is the project co-ordinator for activities 2 and 3 (Meetings, seminars, conference organization). 2017
Member of Editorial Board, Lettere italiane. Lettere italiane is one of the oldest and most prestigious journals of Italian literature. 2018
Member of the editorial board, Archivio Novellistico italiano. The Archivio is the only journal devoted to the novella. 2015
Member of the editorial board of the Journal Griseldaonline 2019
Member of the Scientific Board of the Funded Project "Narrare le passioni" PI: Prof. Elisabetta Menetti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. 2018

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
German Fluent Medium Medium
Italian Fluent Fluent Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
American Boccaccio Association 2012
Igor Candido, I due sensi della Vita nova o delle ipostasi d'Amore, Quaderni di Gargnano, Dante e il prosimetro: dalla "Vita nova" al "Convivio",, Milan, 17.10.2020, edited by Paolo Borsa, Anna Maria Cabrini , 5, Lededizioni, 2023, pp35 - 62, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Igor Candido, Il Dante dei puritani e l"eredità della teologia gotica, SEMINARIO GIURIDICO DELLA UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLOGNA, "E sarai meco senza fine cive". Temi, personaggi e fortuna della cultura politica e giuridica di Dante, Bologna, edited by I. Pontoriero and M. Veglia , (331), Bologna University Press, 2023, pp145 - 162, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
Igor Candido, Chiara Fenoglio, Raffaello Palumbo Mosca, Silvia Ricca, Daniele Santero, La letteratura permanente. Poeti, scrittori, critici per Giorgio Ficara, Milano, La Nave di Teseo, 2022, 1 - 624pp, Book, PUBLISHED
"The Vita Nuova Will Yet Have American Successors": Translating Dante in Nineteenth-Century New England in, editor(s)J. Blakesley and F. Coluzzi , English Life of the Vita Nuova, London, Routledge, 2022, pp76 - 92, [Igor Candido], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Mulier ficta: la creazione del personaggio femminile da Dante a Manzoni in, editor(s)I. Candido, C. Fenoglio, G. Ricca, D. Santero , La letteratura permanente. Poeti, scrittori, critici per Giorgio Ficara, Milan, La Nave di Teseo, 2022, pp197 - 209, [Igor candido], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Igor Candido, Linking the ancients to posterity: Petrarch's ideal and intended readership in De vita solitaria, Schriften des Italienzentrums der Freie Univ. Berlin, Affects and Community-Formation in the Petrarchan World, Berlin, 11-12.3.2021, edited by Bernhard Huss , 8, 2022, pp53 - 61, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  URL
Igor Candido, Singleton's unpublished edition of the Vita nuova, Modern Language Notes, 137, (1), 2022, p175 - 208, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Le lettere perdute di Francesco Bruni a Petrarca, Boccaccio, Salutati e tre inedite a Francesco e Bene del Bene in, editor(s)Sabrina Ferrara , Échanges épistolaires autour de Pétrarque et Boccace, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2021, pp329 - 358, [Igor Candido], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Igor Candido, Psyche's Textual Journey from Apuleius to Boccaccio and Petrarch. In: The Afterlife of Apuleius, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies , 140, 2021, p65 - 78, Notes: [Also available in Open access], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Igor Candido, Dante conviviale: mito classico e dottrina cristiana in Pascoli, Rivista di letteratura italiana, 39, (3), 2021, p45 - 55, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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Igor Candido, Metamorfosi d'Amore nella Vita nova, Seminario dottorandi, University of Pisa, Pisa, 15.12.2021, 2021, A. Borrelli, M. C. Cabani, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Il Dante dei puritani tra esilio e teologia gotica, International conference «E sarai meco sanza fine cive». Temi, personaggi e fortuna della cultura politica e giuridica di Dante, Bologna, 30.11.21-2.12.21, 2021, Marco Veglia, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Igor Candido, Beatrice oltremondana: Dall'Eden all'Empireo, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, 12.7.2021, 2021, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Igor Candido, Linking the ancients to posterity: Petrarch"s De vita solitaria, Workshop ONLINE "Affects and Community- Formation in the Petrarchan, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, 11/12.3, 2021, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Igor Candido, Teoria e storia del dantismo americano,, SCUOLA ESTIVA INTERNAZIONALE IN STUDI DANTESCHI, XIV edition, Università Cattolica, Milan, 13.7-25.9, 2020, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Igor Candido, Preliminary Observations on a new bilingual edition of Boccaccio's Decameron., BonHum, Tours, Univ. Francois Rabelais, 25 January, 2019, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Igor Candido, La storia della salvezza in Dante: dalla Vita Nova al Purgatorio, 13.12.2019, 2019, M. Zaccarello, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Igor Candido, Francesco Bruni's Lost Letters and Petrarch's Florentine Circle, Échanges épistolaires autour de Pétrarque et Boccace, Tours, Univ. Francois Rabelais, 16 June, 2019, S. Ferrara, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Igor Candido, Accoppiamenti giudiziosi: intimità dei personaggi decameroniani, L"arte di narrare le passioni in Europa , University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 9 May, 2019, E. Menetti, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Igor Candido, I confini del Decameron: Fiammetta e Corbaccio a confronto, Aimer ou ne pas aimer: une question, deux textes: Boccace Elegia di madonna Fiammetta et Corbaccio. Colloque International organisé par les Universités Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris 3 et Sorbonne Université, 25-26 janvier 2018, Paris, 26 January 2018, 2018, Manuele Gragnolati and Philippe Guerin, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Global Humanities Research Fellowship - The Thematic Network "Principles of Cultural Dynamics" (DAAD funded exchange program), Freie Universität Dahlem Humanities Center and Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center, July 2015- February 2016 2015-2016
Fellow-by-Courtesy, Dept of German and Romance Languages, Johns Hopkins University, March 2015-March 2016. 2015-2016
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin, Dahlem Humanities Center, 2013-2014 2013-2014
Gilman Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2010-2011 2010-2011
Gilman Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2009-2010 2009-2010
Singleton Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2008-2009 2008-2009
Gilman Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2007-2008 2007-2008
Gilman Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2006-2007 2006-2007
Singleton Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2005-2006 2005-2006
PhD fellowship in Italian studies, XX Ciclo, Università degli Studi di Torino 2007-2008 2007-2008
PhD fellowship in Italian studies, XX Ciclo, Università degli Studi di Torino 2006-2007 2006-2007
PhD fellowship in Italian studies, XX Ciclo, Università degli Studi di Torino 2005-2006 2005-2006
Prize for the best Thesis in Lettere Moderne, University of Turin 2005
"Presidente della Repubblica" Special Prize for Poetry, Savigliano 2002

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

My research has been comparative in two directions. My interest in Dante and medieval culture led me to a scholarly project tracing the appreciation of Dante in North America, from its real roots in the era of Emerson to the twentieth-century. In a book concerning Emerson"s translation of Dante"s New Life, I have presented a historical study that sets Emerson's work in context, a study that accompanies the first critical edition of his Dantean translation; in a critical study of American scholarship on Dante I offer a comprehensive reading of American Dante criticism in the post-Singleton era; in an article appeared in "Dante studies", I propose an innovative reading of Longfellow"s Dantism in the light of the unpublished lectures delivered at Harvard College from 1838 to 1852. My first monograph received 10 reviews, 6 in newspapers, which highlighted the interest in the work beyond my academic field and could anticipate the impact that it was going to exercise on the field of comparative studies. My study on Emerson and Dante opened new research paths: I am now working on a new monograph that will consider Emerson"s interest in and knowledge of Italian literature as a whole. The new monograph should appear in the series "Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature." Dante's medieval context is equally important for me. For this reason, I worked on Boccaccio as a writer and interpreter of myths. By combining textual criticism, reception studies, and cultural history, my project for the first time defined Boccaccio"s literary and philosophical debts to Apuleius of Madauros. My study successfully challenged the scholarly paradigm of Vittore Branca's "Boccaccio medievale", which for almost fifty years was an admired standby. One of the foremost Boccaccio scholars has indeed labeled my "Boccaccio umanista" as our `own Boccaccio", the new Boccaccio of the current generation of scholars. At the centre of my research lies a set of problems in the "Decameron": in particular, I demonstrated that the fable of Eros and Psyche is the most important source of the Griselda tale (Dec. X, 10), a tale that enjoyed wide circulation from Petrarch"s translation into Latin and Chaucer"s adaptation in his Clerk's Tale. I then became convinced that Boccaccio"s classicism needed to be rethought; he was an avid student of Apuleius not only as a source of myths, but also as a source for Neoplatonic philosophy. By using palaeographic, philological, and hermeneutical instruments and methods, my monograph provided the first comprehensive study on Boccaccio as reader, glossator, and imitator of Apuleius, as well as a new thought-provoking contribution on his still underestimated humanism. In investigating the diffusion of Apuleius in medieval Italy, I conducted an innovative reassessment not only of Boccaccio, but of medieval textual culture at large. More specifically, the analysis of Boccaccio"s reading strategies contributed to challenge authoritative narratives that assume a sharp divide between Middle Ages and Renaissance humanism. My second monograph received 8 scholarly reviews.