Phd in DOCUMENTATION STUDIES, LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE

Research:

Arianna De Gasperis (Rome, 1997) is a PhD candidate in Documentary, Linguistic and Literary Sciences, curriculum History, Literature and Gender Studies, at University of Rome La Sapienza with a project on the evolution of the theme of adventure from the early 19th century phase of the contamination between mock-eroic poem and novel (Il poeta di teatro by Filippo Pananti, Vita e avventure di Marco Pacini by Giovanni Rosini, La Paglianeide by Cesare Paganini), to the the Sterne-influenced novel (Manoscritto di un prigioniero by Carlo Bini) and the comic-parodic novel (Le avventure di Pinocchio, together with Carlo Collodi's “macchietta” of the “birichino di strada”), and finally the Florence humour-guide at the end of the 19th century (Su e giù per Firenze by Pietro Ferrigni, Firenze umoristica by Giulio Piccini, Bozzetti umoristici, Figure da marciapiede, Avventure eroicomiche d'un monello by Giuseppe Petrai).

Her research activities focus on the links between adventure and laughter, particularly in the context of literary "humour" based on the philosophical, literary and linguistic model of Laurence Sterne and its reception in Tuscan literature, including Pinocchio's fortune in the 20th century (Pinocchio and propaganda, Pinocchio and Dino Buzzati). She also is interested in female writers between the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular the production of Sfinge, pseudonym of Eugenia Codronchi Argeli and the literary salotto created with Bianca Belinzaghi, in the context of the cultural environment of Romagna in the early 20th century.

She has presented and published her research in «Oblio», «Studi buzzatiani», «Humanities» and in several international and national conferences. From Septermber to December 2024, she was Visiting PhD at the University of Warwick (Coventry, UK), under the supervision of Fabio Camilletti.

Supervisor: Monica Cristina Storini
Co-supervisor: Massimo Fusillo

After obtaining a BA in Lettere moderne at Università La Sapienza in 2019, she obtained a MA in Filologia moderna with a thesis on Eugenia Codronchi Argeli ("La vittima: un romanzo di Sfinge (Eugenia Codronchi Argeli) (1865-1934)" (110/110 cum laude).