Scienze della Letteratura, dell'Arte e dello Spettacolo

Giuseppe Antonelli, Pietro Benzoni, Mauro Bignamini, Giovanni Battista Boccardo, Alberto Conte, Christian Del Vento, Rosangela Fanara, Federico Francucci, Gianfranca Lavezzi, Rossano Pestarino, Federico Saviotti, Luca Stefanelli, Mirko Volpi.

The field of philology and literary studies encompasses research ranging from the Middle Ages through to the Contemporary Age. These different historical areas are brought together within a shared framework, grounded in a long-standing tradition that addresses, on several levels, the study of texts—literary and otherwise. Particular attention is given to questions of transmission, editorial practices, linguistic, stylistic and metrical analysis, textual genesis, and authorial philology. The latter, especially in relation to twentieth-century manuscripts, has been significantly enriched by the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Manuscripts, founded at this University by Maria Corti in 1969.

Among the main areas of research are: editions of medieval Romance narrative texts; early Italian prose; Gallo-Romance lyric poetry; translation and adaptation between oc and oïl in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; Dante exegesis in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance; the Petrarchan lyric tradition (Sannazaro, Tansillo, Tasso); nineteenth-century literature (Foscolo, Manzoni, Pascoli); studies of twentieth-century authors’ papers and libraries (e.g. Gadda, Sereni, Manganelli); twentieth-century poetry (Montale, Saba, Sereni, Caproni, Zanzotto, Sinisgalli, Raffaello Baldini, and major dialect poets); twentieth-century fiction (Pirandello, Gadda, Italian and American postmodernist novels); the theory and practice of literary translation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy; Italian language and cinema; and the language of politics and journalism between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Ongoing projects and collaborations in this area include:

• The FRAGMINE project, dedicated to recovering and studying fragments of medieval vernacular manuscripts dispersed in libraries and historical archives across Northern Italy;
• The FISR project La resa del patrimonio culturale immateriale: per un museo virtuale della lingua italiana, which aims to create MULTI – the Multimedia Museum of the Italian Language;
• The PRIN project AMARGINE (Archivio digitale dei libri postillati di poeti italiani del secondo Novecento), in collaboration with the Universities of Genoa and Turin;
• Collaboration with the Interuniversity Research Centre Foscolo (CRIF), administratively based at the University of Pisa and including the Universities of Fribourg, Genoa, Milan, Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Parma, Pavia, and Perugia.

Angelini G., Campiglio P., Gemelli F., Mulas P.L., Schiavi L.C. 

The research areas in the field of art history cover a broad chronological span, from the early Middle Ages to the contemporary age. They are based on an uninterrupted tradition of studies, initiated by Wart Arslan's university teaching, which investigates the various manifestations of artistic production, architecture, and decoration, with preference to the filological-archaeological method, the stylistic-formal approach, and the historical-critical perspective.

The main areas of research are the history of painting and sculpture in the Middle Ages, with particular reference to the 10th-12th centuries; the relationship between liturgy and architecture; medieval archaeology and material culture of the Middle Ages; monastic spaces between the early Middle Ages and the new mendicant orders of the 13th century; Lombard miniature painting of the Renaissance in its relationship with painting and other arts (goldsmithing, enamel, engraving); artistic patronage at court in the Duchy of Milan (14th-16th centuries); architecture and figurative arts in the Baroque period; history of collecting and connoisseurship in the 19th century; international and Italian poetics and trends in art from the 1960s to the present day; the activity of art galleries in Italy; ceramic sculpture in the 20th century.

Donghi L., Fiaschini F., Innocenti Malini G. E., Ticozzi F., Villa F.

Research within the fields of performing and visual arts encompasses a variety of topics. These include historical and methodological projects aimed at studying and promoting Italian theatrical and cinematic heritage. Furthermore, researchers are exploring contemporary languages as expressed through cinema, photography, and performance, particularly about new technologies (with a focus on virtual reality).

More specifically, research perspectives related to the disciplines of theatre and performance focus on the history of acting, directing and scenic writing; on the theory and practices of performance as a privileged space for redefining the arts system; on social and community theatre, concerning participatory art projects and urban regeneration. On the side of the disciplines of cinema, photography and new media, the lines of research include the archival research (such as on materials from the Fondo Davide Turconi); the history of Italian cinema; the forms and styles of directing documentary and experimental cinema, with projects dedicated to production by the Officine Creative Laboratory. Finally, special attention is devoted to the forms and modes of self-portraiture and autobiography in contemporary media within the framework of the research activities of the Self Media Lab Study Centre, as well as to the definition and study of the medical-scientific imaginary shaped by new visual technologies. Finally, a recent addition is the Auditorium di San Tommaso, where film and theatre professors offer high-quality, free programming that is also open to the public.