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Professor Emma Bond leads a new UKRI-funded grant on the African collections of Italian explorer, Luigi Robecchi Bricchetti.

The Faculty are delighted to welcome Dr Luigi Pinton who has secured a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the Faculty. The Leverhulme scheme is highly competitive and funds early career scholars to undertake a three year research project.

Oxford Modern Languages Alumna, Professor Dame Marina Warner, has been awarded an honorary degree by the American University in Paris. Marina read French and Italian at Lady Margaret Hall.
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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.
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?
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...