Francesco Ciabattoni is Assistant Professor at GeorgetownUniversity. Among his almae matres are the Università degli Studi di Torino and the Johns Hopkins University, where he received his PhD in 2006.
His book Dante’s Journey to Polyphony is a study of the role of music in Dante’s Commedia, for the University of Toronto Press.
Among his research favorites are Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Pasolini, the Middle Ages, the interplay of music and literature.

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:
· Dante’s Journey to Polyphony, U of Toronto P. 2010.

Articles and Book Chapters:
·  “Dante’s Organa: the Comedy from Unholy Racket to Sacred Music,” Italian Quarterly (Winter/Spring 2006) 5-23.
·  “Il mito di Enea nel Secretum: naufragio sull’umanesimo” in Filologia e critica, fasc. I, n. 31 (2006) 75-87.

·  “Pier Paolo Pasolini e le canzoni di Claudio Baglioni” The Italianist, vol.27 (2007.ii) 233-50.

· “Narratological Aspects of Giuseppe Berto’s La Gloria” inBerto: Thirty Years Later. Atti del Convegno di New York City (1 novembre 2008). Eds. Luigi Fontanella and Alessandro Vettori. Padova: Marsilio Editore) 2009.

· “Boccaccio’s Miraculous Art of Story-telling” Italica 87:2 (2010) 167-78.

Volumes edited:
· The Decameron Third Day in Perspective: Volume Three of Lectura Boccaccii. Toronto: U of T Press, P.M. Forni and F. Ciabattoni eds, (in preparation).
· Romance Quarterly Special Issue dedicated to the Italian Middle Ages: RQ Volume 54, n.3, Summer 2007, P.M. Forni and F. Ciabattoni eds.

· The Humanist Workshop. Essays in Honor of Salvatore Camporeale. Italian Quarterly, S. Barsella and F. Ciabattoni eds. (in preparation 2011)

Reviews:

· Santa Casciani ed.: Dante and the Franciscans (Brill, 2006) Annali d’Italianistica Vol. 26 (2008) pp. 460-63.
· Teodolinda Barolini: Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture. (Fordham UP, 2006) MLN 123, 2008.
· Manuele Gragnolati: Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture. (U of Notre Dame P, 2005) MLN 122 (2007):

Poetry:
· Paradosso terrestre. Rome : Il Filo, 2008
· ”Pioggia nella sala periodici” and “Febbraio,” Gradiva n. 31-32 (double issue, 2007).

CONTACTS:
Phone: +1 202 687-5652
Email: fc237@georgetown.edu

Mail address:

Georgetown University. Department of Italian.

Box 571049.

Intercultural Center 307 Washington,

DC 20057-1049.