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Beatrice Arduini
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Geoffrey Turnovsky
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Related Research

Hannah Frydman, “‘Confidences épistolaires de la Vénus publique’: Real-time Communication, Voyeuristic Reading, and Social Media’s Erotic Pre-History in the Petite Correspondance.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies vol. 52, nos. 1–2 (Fall–Winter 2023–24): 89-106. https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2023.a911801.
Beatrice Arduini and Jelena Todorović. "Dante, dalla giovinezza all’esilio: la Vita Nova e il Convivio, i loro disegni ideologici, materiali e culturali.” Atti del Convegno Dante e il prosimetro: dalla “Vita nova” al “Convivio.” Eds. Anna Maria Cabrini and Paolo Borsa. Quaderni di Gargnano 5 (2021). Milan: Milano University Press, 2023.
Revisiting Places: Can We Still Be Early Modern? Keynote Address, Early Modern French Conference of the Society for Early Modern French Studies, 5–7 July 2022, St Andrews. In Early Modern French Studies 2022: 1-16. Online. Print forthcoming. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/20563035.2022.2152301
Hannah Frydman, “Reading Incognito: Periodicals, Sapphic Fictions, and Lesbian Communication," Dix-Neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes 26, no. 1 (2022): 35-55, https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2022.2038515.
Geoffrey Turnovsky, "Reading Exercises. French Literature in the Classroom," Romanic Review 112, 2 (Sept 2021): 213-234.
Beatrice Arduini and Jelena Todorović. "Biscioni's Dante." Textual Cultures 14.2 (2021). 85-96.
Beatrice Arduini, "Memorie letterarie nel Convivio di Dante." The Romanic Review 112.1 (2021). 62-72.
Beatrice Arduini, Dante's Convivio: The Creation of a Cultural Icon, Florence: F. Cesati Press, 2020.
Beatrice Arduini, "Invective and Emotional Tones in Dante's Convivio." In 'Dante Satiro': Satire in the Middle Ages and in Dante's Works. Eds. Fabian Alfie and Nicolino Applauso. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 117-131.
Beatrice Arduini, "La politica linguistica del Convivio di Dante." Medioevo Letterario d'Italia 6 (2019). 45-58.