'Epics of Epidemics in the Italian Literary Imagination'

You are cordially invited to join the Department of Transnational Italian Studies for a lecture by Professor Martin Marafioti from Pace University on “Epics of Epidemics in the Italian Literary Imagination”. This event is planned within Prof. Roberta Ricci's class "Novel, History, and the Making of Italy: Alessandro Manzoni and the Romantic Movement" (ITAL B320) and is being co-sponsored by Health Studies. It is open to the broad BMC community and anyone interested. Please contact rricci@brynmawr.edu for more information.

Martin Marafioti is Professor of Italian in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Pace University, where he has taught since 2004. He completed his Ph.D. in Italian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, specializing in Italian Medieval and Early Modern literature and the intersections between literature and medicine. He has recently published a translation of Michele Savonarola’s Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara, a Fifteenth Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics [Ed. Gabriella Zuccolin] with Iter Press, University of Toronto (2022); and a monograph titled Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy (Routledge, 2018), dedicated to the role of narrative throughout periods of epidemic illness.