After some years of teaching in Dublin, Oxford and Verona, Michelangelo Zaccarello is professor of Filologia italiana at the University of Pisa and is currently president of ICoN-Italian Culture on the Net. He has held Fulbright scholarships at Indiana University (2011-12) and Northwestern (Evanston IL, Jan-Apr 2022). H

is main research areas are the textual scholarship of early Italian literary texts, mainly comic verse and short stories (with critical editions of Burchiello, Pulci, Sacchetti), and digital philology. He has spent visiting terms in several North-American universities (UC Berkeley, UA Tucson, Notre Dame, Toronto) and in European ones: Cambridge (UK), Helsinki (Finland), Nitra (Slovakia), Lausanne (Switzerland).

Of his more than a hundred publications, many appeared outside Italy: Belgium, Estonia, France, Finland, UK, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, USA. Amongst his recently published volumes on textual scholarship: L’edizione critica del testo letterario (Mondadori 2017), Teoria e forme del testo digitale (Carocci 2019), Leggere senza libri (Cesati 2020).

Lecture

Il vino: un viaggio attraverso la storia e la cultura italiana

03 Feb, 14:30-15:15, @ Aula Magna, Department of Agriculture Food and Environment

Winemaking in Italy dates back to the Roman Empire, and the first ever treatise on the various wines was written by Sante Lancerio (bottigliereto pope Paul III) and already tackling several modern issues (wine colour and strength, order of serving and combination with the various foods). Today Italy is home to the world’s greatest wine fait (Vinitaly, in Verona every Spring) and hosts a number of outstanding traditions (food culture, regional recipes, general wellbeing): this WS offers a multi-faceted introduction to many of such aspects, from various theoretical standpoints but also through the direct experience of winemaking “in the process”, by means of a direct experience of its various stages.