Nicolo Maldina

After graduating in Italian from the University of Bologna (2008), where he was also awarded a scholarship by the Collegio Superiore, Dr Maldina obtained his PhD from the University of Pisa in 2012. As recipient of a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Leeds, Dr Maldina worked for three years (2012-2015) as active member of the AHRC-project “Dante and Late-Medieval Florence. Theology in Poetry. Practice and Society” (co-led by the Universities of Leeds and Warwick), and of the ERC-funded project “Italian Voices. Oral Culture, Manuscript and Print in Early Modern Italy (1450-1700), led by Professor Brian Richardson. Between 2015-2020 Dr Maldina was Lecturer in Italian at the University of Edinburgh; he joined the University of Bologna in 2020.
Dr Maldina research interests are in Medieval and Early-Modern Italian Studies. His most recent contributions to this field are tied to his long-lasting interest in Dante, considered in a broad cultural and historical context and, in particular, in the ways in which the Commedia adapts, adopts and responds to different textual forms produced within medieval religious movements (in particular the Dominicans and the Franciscans). Dr Maldina has also worked extensively on Giovanni Boccaccio (in particular the Corbaccio and the De casibus virorum illustrium), on the influence of the Bible in medieval literature (especially the influence of the Psalms on medieval lyric poetry up to Petrarch’s Canzoniere), as well as on religious and didactic literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (with a strong emphasis on preaching and hagiography), and on Renaissance poetry (in particular Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso).
Dr Maldina is member of the editorial board of the journals L'Alighieri, Bollettino Dantesco Ravennate, Griseldaonline and of the website of the “Commissione per i Testi di Lingua” of the University of Bologna.