Biography

Paola Ugolini is an Assistant Professor of Italian at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). She holds a PhD from New York University and a Laurea in Lettere from the Università di Bologna. Her research interests include conduct manuals, satires, paradoxical writings, the Italian academies, and the pastoral mode. She has published articles on Agostino Mascardi, on satires against courtesans, and on Matteo Bandello. She is the co-editor and co-translator of Veronica Gambara. Complete Poems.

Project Summary

This project analyzes critiques of courts and courtiers in early modern Italy. It intends to show how these critiques became the vehicles through which early modern Italian society discussed major issues such as subjectivity and identity, freedom and containment, anxieties over masculinity, and the role of the humanities in public life.