Francesca Terrenato, PhD
Born in Rome, Italy (1968)
Associate Professor and leader of research activity within the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy Sapienza, University of Rome
Research on cultural transfer and gender issues in Dutch literature
EDUCATION
1996 – 1999 University of Rome Roma Tre
PhD in Comparative Literature
Thesis Title: La biografia artistica nel Rinascimento: le Vite di Vasari e lo Schilder- Boeck di Van Mander (Artists’ Biography in the Renaissance: Vasari’s Lives and Van Mander’s Schilder-boeck). Supervisor: Professor J. H. Meter.
1988 – 1994 Sapienza, University of Rome
Master degree in Dutch language and literature
Dissertation Title: La prosa pittorica del primo Van Looy (The Painterly Prose of the Early Van Looy)
EMPLOYMENT
2008 – 2018 Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy
Assistant Professor Dutch Literature
2018-present Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy
Associate Professor Dutch Literature
• Responsible BA and MA courses Dutch Literature
• Member of the Seminar of Intercultural Studies of Sapienza, University of Rome
• Engaged in Research projects on visual culture, translation and cultural transfer in Italy, England, the Netherlands and Flanders in the seventeenth century and on migrant literature. Present research project: IMAGES AND DEVOTION. FROM BOOKS OF HOURS TO EMBLEM BOOKS IN ITALY AND THE LOW COUNTRIES (15th-17th Centuries)
SELECTED RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
Books
F. Terrenato (2017) Vestiti di carta. Le Vite di Vasari e lo Schilder-boeck di Karel van Mander [new edition], Roma: Libreria Editrice Orientalia, ISBN 978-88-96851-14-2
Book chapters and articles
F. Terrenato (2009), The Shaping of Individual and Collective Identities in Vasari's and Van Mander's Lives of Artists, in The I in the Making, ed. dy D. Rijser, B. Treffers, «FRAGMENTA», vol. 3, Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 127-146, ISBN 9782503532929, ISSN: 1784-410X
F. Terrenato (2010), The First Dutch Translation, in The First Translations of Machiavelli's Principe, ed by. R. De Pol, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 171-226, ISBN 9789042029620
F. Terrenato (2012), Nuda Movet Lachrimas: Women's Chastity and Virginity in Dutch Emblematic Discourse, in Emblematics in the early modern age, ed. by E. Canone, L. Spruit, Pisa-Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, pp. 77-102, ISBN 9788862274548
F. Terrenato (2014), Translation, Imitation and Criticism: Vasari’s Lives and Machiavelli’s Prince in the Early Seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, in Wissenstransfer und Auctoritas in der frühneuzeitlichen niederländischsprachigen Literatur (Berliner Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung 19), ed. by B. Noak, Göttingen: V&R Unipress, pp. 195-210, ISBN 978-3-8471-0310-3
F. Terrenato (2014), Voce: Paesi Bassi, in Enciclopedia Machiavelliana, 3 voll., ed. by G. Sasso, Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, II, pp. 270-1, ISBN 9788812005208
F. Terrenato (2016), Sul dorso di un toro. Il sogno di una cultura europea tra Paesi Bassi e Italia, in Quaderni del premio letterario Giuseppe Acerbi: Letteratura olandese, ed. by S. Cappellari, G. Colombo nr. 16 (2016), Associazione Giuseppe Acerbi, Castel Goffredo, 2016, pp. 37-41, ISBN 978-88-942165-0-9
M. P. Guarducci, F. Terrenato (2016). Gendered landscape/landskap in South African women's poetry. SEMICERCHIO, p. 96-105, ISSN: 1123-4075
F. Terrenato (2017), The Prince in the Dutch republic. Dutch and French Translations 1615-1705, in Machiavelli's Prince: Texts, traditions and translations, ed. by N. Gardini, M. McLaughlin, Roma: Viella Libreria Editrice.
F. Terrenato (2017). Noord-Zuid/Zuid-Noord. Aspecten van (vrouwelijke) migrantenliteratuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen. In: Herman van der Heide Arie Pos Marco Prandoni e Dolores Ross (a cura di). Een ladder tegen de windroos Nederlands tussen Noord- en Zuid-Europa: contacten, confrontaties en bemiddelaars (Lage Landen Studies 7). vol. 7, p. 61-75, Gent (BE):Academia Press, ISBN: 978-90-382-2665-1
F. Terrenato (2018) Sara Burgerhart (1782): female Bildung in a transnational/translational context, Dutch Crossing, 42:1, 37-46, DOI: 10.1080/03096564.2018.1419627