Maria Teresa Rachetta

Maria Teresa Rachetta is a Lecturer in Romance Philology and Linguistics at Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Modern Literature and Culture. She earned her PhD in 2015 jointly from Sapienza University and the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on medieval Romance literatures, manuscript traditions, and textual criticism, with particular emphasis on parabiblical literature, historiography, and lyric poetry from the 12th to 15th centuries.

Her 15 most recent publications (2025-2021) explore topics such as

• textual infrastructure in Brunetto Latini’s Tresor (2025)
• critical editions of Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (2021-2023)
• micro-variance in Old French manuscripts (2023)
• Jewish apologetics in medieval French prose (2020-2023)
• Anglo-Norman literary practices (2022)
• Occitan legal texts (2022)

methodologies and cultural transmission across Mediterranean Europe.