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CORSO DI DOTTORATO

Person and Education Sciences

Milan

Campus
Milan
Language
Italian
Course duration
3 years

XXV CYCLE

  • Lucia Gasparini (2013) - Graduated from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in 2003, in Modern Literature (historical-artistic address) with a thesis in Aesthetics under the guidance of prof. Roberto Diodato. The thesis was an opportunity to deepen the theme of color and its meaning in painting, especially of the twentieth century. In 2006, she graduated from the School of Specialization in Art History of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart with a thesis in Museology supervised by Prof. Alessandra Galizzi Kroegel. In addition, in 2009, she graduated from SSIS, obtaining the qualification to teach Latin, Italian and History for high schools.
    His field of research continues to be that of museology, in particular the historical development of the museum institution and the evolution of its relationship with the public. He is also interested in the current issue of intangible cultural heritage (defined by UNESCO only in 2003) and how the museum can mediate with the public. Prof. Cecilia De Carli follows her current research.
  • Ottavio Abele Ghidini (2014) - In 2007 I obtained a three-year degree in Literature at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Brescia campus) and in 2009, at the same university, I was proclaimed a master's degree in Modern Philology. Starting from the three-year thesis, carried out under the guidance of professors Carlo Annoni and Marco Corradini, I dealt with the biblical, patristic and liturgical sources of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata and Gerusalemme conquistata . Currently, maintaining the same research methodology (the study of intertextuality), I am carrying out a critical comparison between the works of the two greatest authors of the Italian nineteenth century: Giacomo Leopardi and Alessandro Manzoni. In this investigation, which will be the specific topic of my doctoral thesis, I am accompanied by professors Carlo Annoni and Pierantonio Frare. I collaborate with the magazine «Testo». I am an expert on the subject (Italian literature) at the Institute of Philology and History of the Catholic University of Brescia and at the Department of Italian and Comparative Studies of the Catholic University of Milan.
    Publications
    - "I too want to become a giant". Nuovi contributi intertesti fra Liberata e Conquistata, in "Rivista di letteratura italiana", XXIX (2011), 1, pp. 33-50.
  • Paolo Maria Gilberto Maino (2013) - Born in Busto Arsizio on August 29, 1974. I graduated in Literature with a classical specialization in May 1999 at the University of Milan with a thesis in the archaeological field on Roman Milan. I obtained the teaching qualification through an ordinary competition and I have been a tenured teacher since September 2006. Currently my place of employment is the Liceo Scientifico A. Tosi in Busto Arsizio. Since February 2008 I have been collaborating with the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart where I carry out teaching activities (writing workshop for first-year students of Literature in Milan, thesis writing workshop for law undergraduates at the Piacenza campus, seminar in History of the Italian language, subject expert in History of the Italian language). Since October 2009 I have started my doctoral research work on the language of the tidying up of the Decameron by Lionardo Salviati (1582).
    I deal in particular with the linguistic issues of the second half of the Italian sixteenth century.

XXIV CYCLE

  • Alice Crosta (2012) - Born in Milan in 1981. In 2006, he graduated with a four-year degree in Modern Literature from Università Cattolica with a thesis on Gabriele D'Annunzio's Alcyone. Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Langella, co-supervisor: Prof. Chiara Colombo. In 2007, master's degree in Publishing and Editorial Product Management. In 2008, translations from English for publishing and start of the PhD in History and Literature of the Modern and Contemporary Age. Tutor: prof. Pierantonio Frare. In 2012, discussion of the doctoral thesis entitled: Alessandro Manzoni and the Anglo-Saxon culture. The study analyzes the possible influences of some Anglo-Saxon authors on Manzoni and the author's fortune in Great Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century. Some of the material was found at the British Library in London. Main research directions: Manzoni and the Romantic and Victorian authors, Manzoni and the exiles of the Risorgimento, Manzoni and the Oxford movement, Manzoni and the American intellectuals.
    Publications:
    - An episode of Manzoni's fortune in England: the reviews of Mary Shelley, «Iris» vol.
I, 2012 (website www.irisjournal.org/journal/issue_1/Shelley_Manzoni_Iris.pdf).
  • Federica Maveri (2014) - Born on June 25, 1971. After graduating in Law from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in December '95, she obtained the qualification and practiced law until 2004. She enrolled in the Faculty of Modern Literature at the University of Milan, and graduated in June 2007 in Contemporary History, under the guidance of Prof. Edoardo Bressan, with a thesis on Giovanni Battista Guzzetti, a significant figure of priest in the Ambrosian Church of the twentieth century. Appointed in 2008 as a subject expert for the chair of Contemporary History of Prof. Maria Bocci at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, she began in October 2009 – followed by Prof. Bocci herself – the research work for the doctorate dealing with the history of Catholic women, from early Christian feminism to the associations of the Gioventù Femminile dell'Azione Cattolica, with particular attention to the diocese of Milan in the first half of the twentieth century.
    Publications 
    - Female citizenship: 'Non son più i bei tempi di Penelope', «Nuova Secondaria», XXVIII (2010), 2, pp. 35-36. 
    - Carlo Figini: a theologian behind the scenes. Avvio allo studio, «Bollettino dell'Archivio per la storia del movimento sociale cattolico in Italia», XLIV (2009), 2, pp. 253–263. 
    - Un maestro di Venegono: monsignor Giovanni Battista Guzzetti (1912-1996), Milano, NED, 2008. 
    - Armida Barelli, entry in the Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione, edited by G. Chiosso and R. Sani, forthcoming.
  • Carla Pagliarulo (2013) - Born in Benevento, on November 21, 1984. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Modern Literature in 2006 at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan with a thesis entitled Witnesses of the Italian legend of Attila at the Orszagos Szechenyi Konyvtar, with a grade of 110 cum laude. The research was the result of a study experience in Budapest at the Hungarian National Library Orszagos Szechenyi Konyvtar. The results of the research have been partly published in an article by Prof. G. Domokos, Hungarian references in an anonymous Venetian chronicle of the fifteenth century, in «Con dottrina e con volere insieme. Saggi, studi e scritti vari dedicato a Béla Hoffmann», Szombathely, Savaria University Press, 2006, pp 173 ff. Master's Degree in Modern Philology, obtained in July 2008 at the same Lombard university and with the same result, with a thesis entitled Prove di commento ad alcuni componimenti puerili di Giacomo Leopardi (1809-1810). During the academic year 2008-2009 she worked as an Assistant at the Sophia University Institute (Incisa in Val d'Arno, Florence) for the teaching of Italian language to foreign students. He currently works at the Giordani Archive in Rocca di Papa (Rome) in order to bring to light some correspondence that the man of letters and politician from Tivoli had with some of his contemporaries, with whom he proposed in fact to show how Catholic culture – especially in the field of literature and art – was not a subculture. The material is unpublished, so the project would like to end with a publication. Since 2009 he has also been a scholarship holder at the CUC (Catholic University Center), an organization of the CEI, for which he carries out a research entitled: Giacomo Leopardi and the Hermetic. An encounter between a Catholic vision of life and art and the aesthetics of the "atheist" poet. He occasionally collaborates with some literary magazines.
    Publications
    - Nelle cose che vedi (commento a una poesia di Valerio Abbondio), in "Cenobio", (LVII), 2008, 3, pp. 36 ff.
    - The "last poems" of Mario Luzi, in "Nuova Umanità", XXI, 2009, 3, pp. 489 ff.
    - Giovanni Casoli: gli istanti mortali non sono una vita, in "Nuova Umanità", XXXII, 2010, 5, pp. 578 ff.
  • Elena Pala (2012)
    - Tailor-made fascists. Donna-crisi e donna-madre, le due variante mussoliniane dell'emancipazione femminile, in R. Chiarini (a cura di), Donne al lavoro (1900-1950), Brescia, Tipografia Camuna, 2008, pp. 39-44.
    - The Exodus in Brescia. I documenti, in R. Chiarini (ed.), Foibe/Esodo. Una storia negata, Brescia, Tipografia Camuna, 2008, pp. 68-87.
    - The foibe. I documenti, in R. Chiarini (ed.), Foibe/Esodo. Una storia negata, Tipografia Camuna, Brescia, 2008, pp. 33-47.
    - E. Pala - R.
  • Chiarini, Brescia motore di modernità "né futurista né passatista", Brescia, La Compagnia della Stampa, 2009.
    - The Defence Information Service of the Italian Social Republic. Il caso del nucleo di controspionaggio di Brescia, in "Annali dell'Archivio storico della resistenza bresciana e dell'età contemporanea", 5 (2009), 1, pp. 159-186.
    - E. Pala - R. Chiarini, Brescia industriale. Una corsa lunga un secolo (1910-2010), Brescia, La Compagnia della Stampa, 2010.
    - Fifty years of soroptimist friendship. Il Club di Brescia (1961-2011), Brescia, Tipografia Camuna, 2011.
    - 1943-1945: how the Italians "resisted" in the six hundred days of the Republic of Salò. Guida didattica per studenti, Brescia, Tipografia Gavardese, 2011.
    - Garibaldi in a black shirt. The myth of the Hero of the Two Worlds in the Republic of Salò. 1943-1945, Milan, Mursia, 2011.
    - Tra focolare e patria Le "donne di Salò" nelle pagine de «La Domenica del Corriere» (1943-1944), in "Nuova Storia Contemporanea", 15 (2011), 1, pp. 15–30.
  • Giancarlo Pontiggia (2012)
  • Sarah Sivieri (2014) - Born in Gattinara (VC) on June 16, 1978. I graduated in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart with a thesis on Laura Mancinelli, Aliud per alia dicere. A reading of Laura Mancinelli's work, under the supervision of Professor Enrico Elli.
    My doctoral thesis, Gianna Manzini screenwriter, aims to reconstruct Gianna Manzini's twenty-year radio and television activity. The project has a twofold articulation: firstly, based on the unpublished material collected from various archival collections (Mondadori Foundation in Milan, Archives of the Twentieth Century of the Sapienza University of Rome, National Central Library of Rome, RAI display cases in Rome and Milan), it aims to identify the entire work carried out by the writer for radio and television; secondly, it aims to analyze the stylistic and structural differences that affect Gianna Manzini's writing in the transition from one medium to another, with particular attention to short stories.
    At the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, I am a collaborator of the "Research Center of Culture and Literature of United Italy" directed by Professor Giuseppe Langella and since 2010, on the proposal of Professor Enrico Elli, an expert in the subject of modern and contemporary Italian literature. I am also a member of the M.O.D (Italian Society for the Study of Literary Modernity) and I collaborate with O.B.L.I.O (Bibliographic Observatory of Nineteenth-Twentieth Century Italian Literature), a review magazine of the same society, directed by Professor Nicola Merola.
    I work in the publishing field, where I am a scientific editor and translator from English and Spanish.
  • Maria Chiara Tarsi (2012) - She graduated in Modern Literature from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart with a thesis on The maternal figure in twentieth-century Italian poetry; he is an expert in the subject for the teachings of Italian for Communication and Italian Literature and is a member of the "Research Center for Literature and Culture of a United Italy". He studied the poetry and culture of the thirties of the twentieth century (Papini, Bargellini, Betocchi); at the same time she dedicated herself to the study of sixteenth-century literature, and in particular of Michelangelo's poetic production. His doctoral research focused on the edition and commentary of the collection of rhymes that the artist prepared and of which there is evidence in the manuscripts.
    Publications
    - The perspective of salvation in the last Betocchi, in "Sacra doctrina", 55 (2010), 1, pp. 212-230.
    - Cards nos. 4.1, 4.2, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.11, in A. Rovetta (ed.), L'ultimo Michelangelo. Disegni e rime intorno alla Pietà Rondanini, Catalogue of the exhibition (Milan, Castello Sforzesco, 24 March - 19 June 2011), Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 2011.  

    • XXIII CYCLE

      • Bianca Garavelli (2012) - She was born and lives in Vigevano. She graduated in Pavia with Maria Corti, with a thesis on the Stilnovistic language in Dante's Vita Nuova . In 2011, on the proposal of Professor Pierantonio Frare, she was appointed Subject Expert in Italian Literature, Modern Italian Literature, Italian Language and Italian Grammar at the Faculty of Education of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan campus.
        He is a literary critic for the newspaper "Avvenire"; he collaborates with the "Treccani scuola" portal.
      He is a member of the technical jury of the "Metauro" Prize for published poetry, based in Urbino (president Umberto Piersanti), and in the technical jury of the "Tracce di territorio" fiction prize, organized by the Cairoli Rotary Club and the Tracce di territorio Association (President Mino Milani).
      He directed the series "The Great Classics of Poetry" for Fabbri Editori, which came out on newsstands between 1997 and 2000.
      He has published some creative texts: he made his debut with the book of poetry L'insomnia beata (Edizioni di "Steve", preface by Antonio Porta, 1988). She then continued as a narrator, publishing some novels, including Il mistero di Gatta Bianca (Laterza 1999, second edition 2000), Beatrice (Moretti & Vitali, 2002), Il passo della dea (Passigli, 2005), Amore a Cape Town (Avagliano, 2006, Premio "Angeli nel cielo del Cilento" 2007). In 2010 the volume of criticism was published, a map of the literature of the last twenty years through articles and interviews published in "Avvenire", "Stilos" and "Readings", In the pages of the soul (Moretti & Vitali).
      He is dedicated to the study and dissemination of Dante's work: he has edited the commentary on the Divine Comedy (Bompiani, 2000-2001; complete edition in a single volume 2006), the guide manual to the Divine Comedy. Paradiso (Alpha Test 2004), followed by the guide manual to the Divine Comedy. Inferno (Alpha Test 2009), the volume The Divine Comedy. Canti scelte (Rizzoli Bur 2006) and the volume by Ètienne Gilson, Dante e Beatrice. Dante's Essays (Medusa 2004). For some years she has been engaged, alone or with actors and musicians, in the guided reading of the Divine Comedy in churches, places of art and schools. In 2006 he translated and edited The debate on the "Romance of the Rose" by Christine de Pizan, Jean Gerson, Jean de Montreuil (Medusa); in 2007 he translated and edited Christine de Pizan's Book of Peace and Ètienne Gilson's essay The School of the Muses, also for Medusa.
      It has an official website: www.biancagaravelli.it
      Publications
      - Ornela Vorpsi, in "Readings", LXII (2007), 640, pp. 21-23.
      - Reliable witnesses to describe evil. The "Gothic" genre, in "Readings", LXIII (2008), 649, pp. 20-22.
      - Commentare Dante, in N. Tonelli - A. Milani (eds.), Dante nelle scuole (Atti del Convegno dell'Università di Siena, 8-10 marzo 2007), Firenze, Franco Cesati Editore, 2009, pp. 31-34.
      - Guide to The Divine Comedy. Inferno, Milan, Alpha Test, 2009.
      - Geography or metaphysics. Luoghi della poesia contemporanea, in E. Pigliapoco (ed.), Patrie poetiche. Luoghi della poesia contemporanea, Ancona, peQuod, 2010, pp. 66-80.
      - The angelic system. God and angels as an astronomical system in Dante's "Paradise", in "Poesia e spiritualità", II (2010), 4, pp. 210-216.
      - In the pages of the soul, Bergamo, Moretti & Vitali, 2010.
    • Filippo Gorla (2012) - Born in Melzo (MI) on 22 December 1982. In 2004 he obtained a bachelor's degree in Historical Sciences with a thesis entitled The Roman Navy in the High Empire, developed under the guidance of Prof. Giuseppe Zecchini. In it he reconstructed the historiographical panorama on the subject, discussing some problems related to the organization of the Roman navy in the period between the end of the Republic and the principality of Marcus Aurelius. In 2007 he obtained a master's degree in Historical Sciences with a thesis entitled Carthage in Fascist Culture, developed under the guidance of Prof. Agostino Giovagnoli, in which he examined the intersection between the sciences of Italian antiquity and fascist ideology. As part of the XXIII cycle of the PhD in History and Literature of the Modern and Contemporary Age, she is carrying out, under the guidance of Prof. Maria Bocci, a research on the relationship between fascism and religions, with particular attention to the role played by the political-ideological journals of the regime.
    • Silvio Mara (2011) - Publications:
      - Una biografia inedita di Leonardo scritto dal conte Della Torre di Rezzonico, in M. Ballarini, G. Barbarisi, C. Berra, G. Frasso (eds.), Tra i fondi dell'Ambrosiana: manoscritti italiani antichi e moderni, Atti del convegno (Milano, 15-18 maggio 2007), Milano, Cisalpino, 2008, t. II, pp. 865–890.
      - Giuseppe Bossi e i rapporti tra Brera e l'Ambrosiana, in S.
    • Sicoli (ed.), Milano 1809: la Pinacoteca di Brera e i musei in età napoleonica, Atti del convegno (Milano, 2-3 dicembre 2009), Milano, Electa, 2010, pp. 191–197.
      - Un Libro di disegni della Biblioteca Ambrosiana, in "Arte Lombarda", 158-159 (2010), 1-2, pp. 74-118.
    • Valentina Marchesi (2011) - She was born in Milan in 1983. She graduated in Modern Literature at the Catholic University of Milan (July 2007), discussing a thesis in Italian Literature dedicated to The first draft of Pietro Bembo's De Urbini Ducibus (supervisor Prof. Uberto Motta). In the same university he won (October 2007) as a scholarship holder a three-year PhD position in History and literature of the modern and contemporary age, developing a research project on The critical prose of Eugenio Montale, currently being published after the discussion of the related thesis (April 2011). He has also benefited from postgraduate scholarships at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice (2008) and at the University of Lausanne (2010). He has participated in some conferences in Italy and abroad (Urbino, 2006; Rome, 2008; Budapest, 2010; Turin, 2011).
      Since 2002 he has collaborated with some publishers, mainly in Milan, in the fields of non-fiction and school manuals. He currently continues to collaborate with the Chair of Italian Literature II of the Catholic University of Milan, where he continues his research, mainly dedicated to the literary civilization of the Renaissance.
      Publications
      - A case of conscience. La stagione editoriale forlivese (1939-43): nota per una provincia consapevole, in "Otto/Novecento", XXIX (2005), 2, pp. 59-141.
      - Montale avanti Contini: i primi giudizi su «Ossi di seppia» e dintorni (1925-1932), in "Testo", XXVII (2006), 2, pp. 37-58.
      - Preface to Ippolito Nievo, La pazza del Segrino, Milan, Aretè-Edizioni di Brianze, 2007.
      - Bembian variants: Guidubaldo in Ambr. O 205 sup., Atti del Seminario di Studi L'età di Guidubaldo e Castiglione (Urbino, Università degli studi "Carlo Bo", 15-16 giugno 2006), in "Humanistica", III (2008), 2, pp. 11-19.
      - Contini meets Montale (1933-1940), in "Aevum", LXXXII (2008), 3, pp. 889-902.
      - From Petrarch to Bembo. The "condition" of the modern poet, in Modern and modernity. Italian literature, Proceedings of the XVII ADI Congress (Rome, University "La Sapienza", 17-20 September 2008), online at: https://www.italianisti.it
      - Preface to Stendhal, Diario del Viaggio in Brianza (agosto 1818), Milano, Aretè-Edizioni di Brianze, 2009.
      - Pietro Bembo, I Duchi di Urbino. De Urbini Ducibus liber, critical edition, translation and commentary by Valentina Marchesi, Bologna, Emil, 2010 (Biblioteca del Rinascimento e del Barocco, 2).
      - Pietro Bembo in Urbino (1506-1512). Tracce di una memoria petrarchesca, in "Testo", XXXI (2010), 2, pp. 16-35.
      - La tradizione manoscritta del De Urbini Ducibus di Pietro Bembo, in Dal testo alla rete. Literature, art, culture and history in new perspectives, Proceedings of the II Itadokt International Congress (Budapest, Eötvös Loránd ELTE University, 22-24 April 2010), edited by Endre Szkárosi and József Nagy, Budapest, Eötvös Loránd University, 2010, pp. 83-101.
      - A guest in the center of Europe. Montale e la Svizzera, in "Cenobio", LIX (2010), 3, pp. 43-55.
      - V. Marchesi, Montale e il confine della prosa. Intorno a Due prose veneziane, in "Quaderni della Sezione di Italiano della Faculté des Lettres dell'Università di Losanna", II (2011), pp. 209-229.
    • Elena Scolastica Rampazzo (2011)
    • Daniele Ludovico Viganò (2013) - Born in Milan in 1974. He graduated in Philosophy (Aesthetics) at the University of Milan, discussing a thesis in Soviet Architecture and Iconography of the Thirties. He is an expert on the subject and a doctoral student in History and Literature of the Modern and Contemporary Age at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.
      A qualified lecturer for the chair of Philosophy and History, he obtained the qualification for teaching the Catholic religion (IRC). To this day he is a teacher of Philosophy, History and Religion at high schools.
      She attended the advanced training course English for Academic Purposes promoted by the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He has held some lectures at the Cardinal Giovanni Colombo Foundation in Milan, formerly the University of the Third Age.
    • He has also been a speaker at conferences in schools and universities and has held cycles of seminars on Jewish Philosophy and Iconography.
      His education was enriched by some publications concerning the Soviet world, excerpts from his degree thesis and the studies practiced in Germany at the Philipps Universität Marburg in the framework of the annual Erasmus exchange program.
      Finally, he developed professional skills in the field of Russian and German culture, in particular as a scholarship holder at the LII Study Week Reflections on the GDR at the Bruno Kessler Foundation-Italo-Germanic Historical Studies in Trento. 

      XXII CYCLE

      • Ludovico Como (2011)
      • Chiara Delorenzi (2011)
      • Maria Grimoldi (2013)
      • Massimo Migliorati (2011)
      • Rita Zama (2011)