DE CAPUA Paola

Since 2021 she has been Full Professor of Philology of Italian Literature (L-FIL-LET / 13) at the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations, University of Messina. She teaches Italian Philology (LT Lettere) and Methodology of Italian Philological Research (LM Literary civilization of Medieval and Modern Italy). She has coordinated the LM39 'Italian Language and Culture for Foreigners' degree course (2018-2021).Since 2022 she coordinates the ML14 'Civiltà letteraria dell'Italia medievale e moderna'. Since 2004 she has been a member of the Board of Professors of the PhD programme in 'Ancient and Modern Philology', subsequently named 'History and Philology', then 'Historical, Archaeological and Philological Studies' and currently 'Humanistic Studies', with administrative headquarters at the University of Messina. She is a member of the Council of the International Center for Humanitic Studiies (CISU, directed by Prof. D. Gionta). Since 2022 she is a member of theeditorial board of University Press of University of Messina. Since 1991 she has been a member of the editorial board of «Studi umanistici» (since 2003 «Studi medievali e umanistici»); from 2010-2011 she has been its co-director. Since 2020 she has been a member of the planning and research committee of the journal «Umanesimo dei moderni». Since 2007 she has been in the editorial board of the journale "Quaderni petrarcheschi". Since 2016 she has been a member of the editorial board of «Peloro. Rivista del Dottorato in Scienze storiche, archeologiche e filologiche dell’Università di Messina ", which became from 2020" Peloro. Rivista del Dottorato in Scienze umanistiche dell’Università di Messina». Since 2023 she is in the editorial board «Epistolographia».
From 2014 to 2017 she was a member of the Board of the Society of Philologists of Italian Literature (SFLI), of which she is currently a member. She is memeber of 'Accademia dell’Arcadia' and 'Accademia peloritana dei pericolanti' .She has been part of research projects of great scientific importance financed by MIUR (PRIN 1997-2003, 2005, 2007, 2010) and has been scientific responsable of several PRAs (University Research Programs: 1999-2009).
Since 2023, she has been a member of the Commission for National Scientific Qualification for the first and second band of university professors in the competition sector 10/F3-ITALIAN LINGUISTICS AND PHILOLOGY.
She has given papers at numerous national and international conferences. Her main field of interest is humanistic culture between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, in which she has worked along a number of routes and through different areas of the Peninsula (Rome, Florence, Bologna, Siena, Ferrara, Messina): from Petrarchian historiography to fifteenth-century literature, from the fortune of the Greek and Latin classics to philological humanism and consumer literature in the early sixteenth century. Along the lines of the fortune of the classics, there are contributions devoted to the reception of authors such as Oppiano, Plutarco and Pliny the Elder, with specific attention to some of the protagonists of fifteenth-century culture (Lorenzo Lippi, Raffaele Regio, Angelo Poliziano, Filippo Beroaldo the Elder): a path of study that has also been enriched by insights into philological humanism, aimed at investigating the achievements of a method that experienced a profound crisis in the transition from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century. Along these lines are several studies on the Roman environment, in which restlessness and new sensibilities found expression in forms of ephemeral literature. The recent study aimed at recovering and enhancing the value of printed texts produced on the occasion of the election of Hadrian VI also falls within this framework. Finally, a second and more circumscribed field of interest, nineteenth-century classicism, is grafted onto the theme of the fortunes of the classics. This has led both to research focusing on the Latin poetry of Giovanni Pascoli and to a handful of studies dedicated to Diego Vitrioli and the classical tradition in Italy.