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Cecilia Sideri is a Senior Researcher and Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick, holding a Marie Curie-UKRI Guarantee postdoctoral fellowship (2023–2025). She teaches Italian Palaeography and contributes to the MA Renaissance Culture core course, and in the academic year 2024–2025, she convenes the STVDIO Seminar series.
Education:
- PhD in Italian Studies, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (2020)
- Diploma in Palaeography, Diplomatics and Archival Studies, State Archives, Milan
- MA in Italian Philology (Filologia moderna), Università Cattolica, Milan
- BA in Humanities (Lettere), Università Cattolica, Milan
Research Interests: Her research focuses on the reception of Greek and Latin texts in the Renaissance and 19th century, the manuscript transmission of Latin classics in the Renaissance, the history of the book in the 15th and 16th centuries, Latin and Italian palaeography (15th–16th century), translation studies, and textual scholarship. Her current project investigates the influence of Greek texts on Italian vernacular culture in 15th-century Florence, with results published in a work-in-progress database (October 2024).
Scientific Awards:
- Marie Curie-UKRI Guarantee Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023–2025)
Advising and Grants: While no formal list of students is provided, she has taught at multiple institutions including the University of Verona and Università Cattolica of Milan. Her current fellowship serves as a major research grant supporting her work at Warwick. She has held prior fellowships including DAAD Short-term Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, and Short-term Fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Neo-Latin Studies and the Bibliographical Society of America.
Labs and Research Groups: She was a member of the LaMeDan research lab at the University of Verona, specializing in manuscript description and digitization. She is actively involved in organizing international academic events, including conferences on Guarino Veronese and Cristoforo Landino.
