Gemma Donati

Gemma Donati serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Literature and Culture at Sapienza University of Rome, teaching Philology of Italian Literature I/II, Medieval and Humanistic Philology, and Humanistic Philology across Modern Letters and Linguistics undergraduate programs.

Her research specializes in Italian philological traditions with concentrated expertise in medieval manuscript transmission, Renaissance humanism, and textual criticism. Key investigations encompass Petrarchan textual lineages, critical editing of Vatican Library historical documents, and 20th-century scholarly correspondence networks within Italian intellectual history.

Recent publications (2016-2023) reveal consistent methodological engagement with manuscript studies, rare text preservation, and the historical sociology of philological practice. Her work bridges literary analysis with material bibliography, particularly examining how scribal practices and editorial interventions shape canonical Italian literary traditions from Petrarch to modern humanist scholarship.