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Professor Catriona Seth is expert guest on BBC's "Fake or Fortune"

The most recent episode of the BBC's much-loved history of art programme "Fake or Fortune", presented by MML graduate Fiona Bruce and gallery owner Philip Mould, centred on a picture by a Scottish painter, Katherine Read (1723-1778).

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Dr Luca Costa has been awarded a prestigious MHRA Research Scholarship, supporting outstanding early-career postdoctoral researchers to revise their doctoral thesis for publication within the Faculty.

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Greek Studies in 15th Century Europe

"Greek Studies in 15th Century Europe" is a Marie Curie individual research project held by Dr. Paola Tomè and financed by the European Union at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages in Oxford.

Italian Research Seminar

About The Italian Research seminar is convened by DPhil students and seeks to bring together members of the sub-faculty at all levels (professors, researchers, and students), as well as anyone interested in any aspect of Italian studies.

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Leopardi and Post-Enlightenment Studies at Oxford

Leopardi and Post-Enlightenment Studies at Oxford promotes the study of Leopardi within a global and post-Enlightenment framework.

Books

‘Dreaming again on things already dreamed’: 500 years of Orlando furioso (1516-2016)

The Argentinian poet Jorge Luis Borges, whose visionary poem ‘Ariosto y los árabes’ inspired the title of this book, defined Ariosto’s Orlando furioso as a dream.

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Cultural Reception, Translation and Transformation from Medieval to Modern Italy

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Book cover of Emma Bond's Curating Worlds

Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature

Emma Bond, Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies, has published a monograph showing how museum practices shed new light on literary form. How and why do books deploy objects in order to narrate the past?

Dante in Oxford

Oxford University's Paget Toynbee Fund has sponsored a number of significant initiatives on Dante in recent years, first a series of Lectures starting in the mid-1990s, and more recently a number of...