Biography

Laura Refe received her laurea and diploma from “La Sapienza” in Rome, and her PhD (Humanistic Literature) and a post-doctoral Fellowship (Italian Philology) from the University of Messina. Her research focuses on Humanism and Renaissance intellectual history, manuscripts, libraries, readers, and literary culture. Between 2003 and 2010, she worked on many projects for the Italian Ministry of Education, and for the Universities of Messina and of Rome. She has published several articles on Humanism and Renaissance, and a monograph on the marginal notes of Petrarchs’s manuscript Par.Lat. 5054 (2004); she will soon publish a critical edition of the Petrarca’s Epistola ad posteritatem.

Project Summary

The project proposes a broad interdisciplinary approach to the study of Poliziano’s students at the ‘Studio fiorentino.’ This aims to clarify the dynamics of exchange and interaction between the most important intellectuals of the ‘Studio,’ and in particular to see the Humanists in relation to a European cultural background.