Biography

Nicoletta Marcelli obtained her BA degree in 1998 at the University of Florence in Italian Renaissance Literature. Her first PhD research at SISMEL (Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, Florence) was devoted to the historiography manuscripts of XIIth century. Since 2004 she received a permanent assignment as secondary school teacher of Italian and Latin Language and Literature. In 2012 she obtained a second PhD at the University of Florence with a dissertation on the Latin poems of Gentile Becchi (1430-1497). Her fields of interests are mainly devoted to the XVth and XVIth centuries Florentine literature, both Latin and vernacular, with particular regard to Leonardo Bruni, Leon Battista Alberti, Cristoforo Landino, and Machiavelli.

Project Summary

The project is devoted to the literary production of the leading intellectuals who took part in the meetings at the Rucellai Gardens. The purpose of the research is mainly focused on the relationship between political commitment and literary practise in the works of the Orti Oricellari participants. Therefore, special attention will be paid to historiography, politics, and poetry through a selected number of authors, including Bernardo Rucellai, Alessandro de’ Pazzi, Luigi Alamanni, Antonio Brucioli, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Jacopo Nardi.