Person and Education Sciences

(In brackets, the year of obtaining the PhD degree)

From the XXII to the XXV cycle

XXVIII cycle (ongoing)

• Elena Alberio (2016) - Born in Tradate (VA) in 1987. He obtained a three-year degree in Modern Literature at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan with the thesis Michelangelo's Drawings for the Expulsion of the Merchants from the Temple, and continued in this field of study also with a master's degree in History of Art and Archaeology, obtained with a thesis on other Michelangelo's drawings on the theme of the Resurrection. During his studies, he was able to collaborate on the design, installation and catalog of the exhibition The Last Michelangelo. Drawings and Rhymes around the Pietà Rondanini (Milan, Castello Sforzesco, 24 March-19 June 2011), curated by Prof. Alessandro Rovetta, and did an internship at the Museums Vaticani.La his doctoral research he is interested in the artistic commissions of Pope Paul III, considering in particular the relationship with Michelangelo.
  Publications:
  - File n. 2.12, 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, pp. 146-147.
• Maria Rita Ruggeri - Born on November 20, 1987. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Modern Literature in the A.Y. 2008/2009 and then a master's degree in Modern Philology in the A.Y. 2011/2012, with a thesis in History of the Italian language entitled: The relatives write to Federico Borromeo: transcription and linguistic analysis of fifty-two letters (1587-1590). After having deepened, during his university years, the aspects related to the use of the language in Italy between the second half of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth century (with particular attention to the processes of linguistic unification and Italianization found in the northern area and especially in Lombardy), he is now developing a research project on the correspondence of Federico Borromeo, observed as privileged sources for the study of history, culture and language between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
• Lucia Tantalo
• Stefania Triachini - Graduated in 2008 in Literary Civilizations and History of Civilizations at the University of Parma, with a thesis entitled Hymnographic Ambitions: from Manzoni's Sacred Hymns to Leopardi's Ahriman, she later enrolled at the University of Milan, where she obtained a master's degree in Modern Literature (March 25, 2011). Subject of study of the thesis Jesuit tradition and Americanism: Giuseppe Mattia De Torres and the Leopardi family were the former Mexican Jesuit De Torres (1746-1821) and his relations with two generations of the illustrious Recanati family, that of Monaldo and that of Giacomo. His is mainly aimed at the cultural relations that some Spanish members of the Society of Jesus, exiles in our peninsula, maintained with the Italian patriciate in the second half of the eighteenth century and in the first decades of the nineteenth century

XXVII CYCLE - in progress

• Brunella Baita (2016) - Born on February 19, 1984. In October 2007, at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, I obtained a three-year degree in Modern Literature with a thesis in History of the Italian language dedicated to the linguistic and stylistic aspects of Curzio Malaparte's Skin. Guided by Professor Michele Colombo, I also developed my master's thesis in Modern Philology (The language of Cletto Arrighi's narrative prose). I am now working on a research project aimed at studying local color in Italian regional fiction of the second half of the nineteenth century under the supervision of Professor Ermanno Paccagnini. I collaborate with the magazine "Otto/Novecento" as an external editor.
  Publications
  - Laurence Fontaine, Colporteurs di libri nell'Europa del XVIII secolo, translation by Brunella Baita and Susanna Cattaneo, Milan, CUSL, 2010 (Minima Bibliographica, 3). 
  - Giovanni Magistri, Descrizioneone dell'apparato fatto dal borgo di Castano Diocese di Milano, per accoglienza le Sante Reliquie nuova avute da Roma, e da Colonia, a cura di Ermanno Paccagnini e Brunella Baita, Milano, La Vita Felice, 2009 (introduction and explanatory notes by Ermanno Paccagnini; transcription, biography of Magistri and note to the text by Brunella Baita).
• Gianni Borgo (2015) - He graduated in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Milan with a thesis on "Freedom, evil, religious experience in the thought of Luigi Pareyson" (1995).

Subsequently, having obtained the qualification to teach in secondary schools, he was a teacher of Philosophy and History in Milan. In his research activity he deepened the connection between Christianity and freedom and then focused on the liberal Catholic tradition, in particular on the work of Antonio Rosmini and Luigi Sturzo. The doctoral thesis is dedicated to the reconstruction of the main phases of Luigi Sturzo's cultural and political activity during his stay in the United States (1940-1946).
Publications
- Pareyson tra filosofia e teologia, in "Segni e Conoscenza", 1998, January-August, pp. 17-32
- Christianity and the culture of freedom in Pareyson, in "Segni e comprensione", 2005, September-December, pp. 57-73.
- Politica e cultura in Luigi Sturzo, in "Storia e Politica", II (2010), 1, pp. 174–223.

• Michele Ricetti (2015) - Born in Tirano (Sondrio) on 30 January 1981. After attending the philosophical-theological two-year course and the first year of the theological three-year course at the Episcopal Seminary of Como (Theological Faculty of Northern Italy), he graduated in Educational Sciences in 2008, at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart with the thesis entitled The discrimination of Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic: between ethnocentrism and racism. The theme developed was born after having carried out the internship activity at the "Oné Respè" Association based in Santiago in the Dominican Republic. He then continued his studies at the same university, obtaining a degree in Pedagogical Design and Socio-educational Interventions, discussing in 2010 the thesis The Europe of Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894-1972).
  The research project on Pan-European Citizenship aims to analyze in depth, also given the particular situation today, the theme of citizenship in the European context since the second half of the eighteenth century. Particular attention will be paid to the pan-European theses addressed by Coudehnove-Kalergi at the beginning of the twentieth century.
• Stefania Triachini - Graduated in 2008 in Literary Civilizations and History of Civilizations at the University of Parma, with a thesis entitled Hymnographic Ambitions: from Manzoni's Sacred Hymns to Leopardi's  Ahriman, she later enrolled at the University of Milan, where she obtained a master's degree in Modern Literature (March 25, 2011). Subject of study of the thesis Jesuit tradition and Americanism: Giuseppe Mattia De Torres and the Leopardi family were the former Mexican Jesuit De Torres (1746-1821) and his relations with two generations of the illustrious Recanati family, that of Monaldo and that of Giacomo.  His is mainly aimed at the cultural relations that some Spanish members of the Society of Jesus, exiles in our peninsula, maintained with the Italian patriciate in the second half of the eighteenth century and in the first decades of the nineteenth century.

• XXVI CYCLE - in progress

  • Gabriele Antonini (2015) - Born in Iseo (Brescia) on October 20, 1985. I graduated in Literature from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Brescia campus) on 18 December 2007 with a thesis in Contemporary History entitled The Genocide in Rwanda and its International Implications . I graduated in Modern Philology, at the same university, on October 2, 2009, with a thesis in History of Literary Criticism and Historiography entitled "But psychoanalysis did not abandon me anymore". Freudian science and Zeno's conscience. In this work, elaborated under the guidance of Professor Marco Corradini, I have tried to outline the profile of Swabian criticism of psychoanalytic orientation in the period of greatest success of this method (approximately between 1970 and 1990) applied to the Trieste author Italo Svevo.
    In November 2010 I was appointed subject expert at the Institute of Philology and History of the Catholic University of Brescia.
    My research project aims to investigate a part of Italo Svevo's work that is considered minor: theater. In addition to a textual analysis of the thirteen Swabian comedies, we will try to understand what importance should be attributed to this portion of the literary production of the Trieste author, known to the general public almost exclusively for his activity as a novelist.
  • Marta Busani (2015)
  • Elena Gatti (2015) - I graduated in Modern Literature from the University of Bologna in 1993.
    In 1995 I attended the one-year postgraduate specialization course in Computer Science for Human Sciences.
  Management of Archives and Libraries, at the Department of Historical Disciplines of the University of Bologna. From 1996 to 2002 I worked on the Folia project of the Superintendence of Book Heritage of Emilia Romagna for the cataloguing and protection of incunabula and sixteenth-century incunabula present in the region, including those of the Archiepiscopal Seminary of Bologna.  From 2005 to 2007 I worked at the "L. Heilmann" library of the University of Bologna of which, In 2006, I became responsible. I am still a permanent employee of the University of Bologna.
  In 2006, I started collaborating with the ARUB (Bolognese Humanistic Renaissance Archive) at the Department of Italian Studies of the University of Bologna, managed by Dr. Leonardo Quaquarelli and Prof. Luisa Avellini its founder, under the guidance of whom I undertook a research work on the editions and typefaces of an important Bolognese printer of the fifteenth century (Francesco de' Benedetti).
  In 2010 I obtained a PhD in History and Computer Science (University of Bologna, Department of Historical Disciplines) under the guidance of Dr. Leonardo Quaquarelli. The objective of my research was the delineation of the technical-intellectual biography of de' Benedetti through the compilation of his typographical annals and the digital reconstruction of the font cases used in his years of activity.
  In 2009, with a scholarship that promotes the training abroad of young researchers from the University of Bologna, I spent a semester at the University of Oxford UK (tutor Ian MacLean, Senior Fellow of All Souls College). In 2011 I obtained a Diploma in Archival Paleography and Diplomacy at the State Archives of Bologna.
  My interests are in the history of books between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, especially in the Bolognese area but not only, and in the typography of the ancient regime. My current research project aims to compare two Bolognese typographic workshops between the 1400s and the early 1500s, with a focus on the social history of publishing, the economic aspects and the intellectual circuits that gravitated around publishers-printers.
  Publications
  - «A study not only arid, and fruitless, but frivolous, and almost nothing to the letters profitable»: reflections on the typographical annals, in "Schede Umanistiche", (2006), 1, pp. 99-110.
  - Reflections on some typographic registers in the incunabulist age, in "La Bibliofilia", (2009), 2, pp. 147-160.
  - A garden for the arts: «Francesco Marcolino da Forlì» the life, the work, the catalogue. Proceedings of the International Study Conference. Forlì, 11-13 October 2007, edited by P. Procaccioli, P. Temeroli, V. Tesei, Bologna, Compositori, 2009, in "Schede Umanistiche", (2010), 1, pp. 290-295.
• Francesco Parnisari (2014) - Born in Angera (Varese) on 9 February 1985. In 2008 he obtained a bachelor's degree in Historical Sciences at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan with a thesis entitled The parish church of Leggiuno between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Ecclesiastical institutions and society in a rural reality in Lombardy. He then continued his studies at the same university, discussing in 2010 the master's degree thesis The Verbanese clergy and the reception of the Tridentine provisions in the second half of the sixteenth century. The speaker, in both cases, was Prof. Emanuele Pagano. At the suggestion of the same professor, since 2011 he has been an expert on the subject at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy for the teaching of Modern History. In October 2010 he was admitted to the PhD in History and Literature of the Modern Age, tutored by Prof. Danilo Zardin. His project, concerning emigration in the area between Lake Maggiore and the Upper Varese area during the modern age, aims to highlight, through investigations conducted on largely unpublished documents, social and cultural aspects related to the migration phenomenon, with particular reference to movements to the ancient Italian and European states.
  Publications
  - Leggiuno and its inhabitants. Un'indagine storico-demografica (secoli XVII-XVIII)", "Verbanus", 29 (2008), pp. 249-274.
  - Giovanni Francesco Carnago curate of Laveno at the time of s. Carlo (1570-1584), in "Verbanus", 31 (2010), pp. 187-215.
  - Libraries and culture of the clergy in the parishes of Verbano in the second half of the sixteenth century. Angera, Brebbia-Besozzo e Leggiuno, "Archivio Storico lombardo", 137 (2011), pp. 103-162.