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Simone Marchesi holds a Laurea from the University of Pisa, a Master’s degree in Italian Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in Comparative Literature. He is a Professor in the Department of French and Italian, with primary research interests focusing on the dialogue between classical late-antique texts and medieval Italian writers, particularly Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. His published works encompass monographs such as 'Stratigrafie decameroniane' (Olschki, 2004) and 'Dante Augustine: Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics' (University of Toronto Press, 2011). Marchesi has also contributed to edited collections, including 'Dante Boccaccio: Dante Alive' (Routledge, 2022) and 'Decameron Day IX Perspective' (University of Toronto Press, 2022). His forthcoming work, 'Vernacular Edens', explores the literary motif of the garden in late-medieval vernacular fiction. Nationally, he has served as Vice-President and President of the American Boccaccio Association and is the Editor in Chief of the Electronic Bulletin for the Dante Society of America, which publishes 'DanteNotes'.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.