Phd in CLASSICAL AND MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES

email: valeria.tavazzi@uniroma1.it
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Valeria G.A. Tavazzi is professor in Italian literature at La Sapienza University since 16 May 2016; she is part of the team of Labex-Obvil, excellence laboratory on "Historiographie théâtrale comparée à l'epoque moderne" of Sorbonne University; she forms part of the scientific council of Italian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and is in the editorial board of 'Dizionario biografico degli italiani' by Treccani and in those of the journals «Studi (e testi) italiani» and «Diciottesimo secolo».
PhD in Italian Studies from 2006, she obtained a CNR Financing within the 2005 Research Promotion activity, was holder of a two-year, and two annual, research grants at La Sapienza University and a post-doctoral fellowship at Cini Foundation in Venice. Her studies were initially dedicated to Italian eighteenth century novel and later extended to theater (with particular emphasis to Goldoni), to music poetry and to Risorgimento literature.
She published three books ('Il romanzo in gara. Echi delle polemiche teatrali nella narrativa di Pietro Chiari e Antonio Piazza', Roma, Bulzoni, 2010; 'Carlo Goldoni dal San Samuele al Teatro comico', Torino, Accademia University Press, 2014; 'Goldoni e i suoi sostenitori', Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2018) and many essays on Chiari, Piazza, Carlo Gozzi, Pietro Verri, Zaccaria Valaresso and on literature related to the 1849 Roman Republic. She also edited Pietro Chiari's 'La commediante in fortuna' (Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2012).