Lorenzo Dell'Oso

Biography

Lorenzo is a Research Fellow in Italian at Trinity College Dublin. His current research project “Theology, Aristotelianism, and Poetry in Late-Medieval Italy: Dante’s Intellectual Formation in Florence and Bologna (1283-1307)” aims to provide an extended and interdisciplinary study of knowledge acquisition by lay literates (i.e. those without a formal Latinate education) in the late Middle Ages and, more specifically, to analyse the theological and philosophical formation of Dante Alighieri, one of the most influential literates of the Western world. Lorenzo holds a BA in Medieval and Modern Literature (2011) and an MA in Modern Philology (Università di Pavia, 2013), a Master’s degree (2015) and a PhD in Italian (University of Notre Dame, 2020). He previously was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Teaching Scholar of Italian at the University of Notre Dame (2020-21). He has been visiting at the University of California at Berkeley (2013) and the University of Cambridge (2018).