Dario Galassini (IRC - Government of Ireland PhD Scholar)

Dario graduated from the Università di Bologna (BA 2017, MA 2020) with two theses on Dante Studies supervised by Prof. Giuseppe Ledda and at the Conservatorio di Musica di Bologna (additional BA 2021).

He is a final-year Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar. His PhD project, entitled 'Poeta che mi guidi': Dantean Afterlives in the Poetry of Giorgio Caproni, Antonia Pozzi, Vittorio Sereni, and Mario Luzi, is supervised by Dr Daragh O'Connell and has received funding from the Departmental 'Eduardo Saccone' Scholarship and the Irish Research Council. As an official member of the Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland, he has co-curated the Online Exhibition La Commedia Divina: 100 lithographs by Liam Ó Broin and also organised and mediated a series of Dante Dialogues on the topic of Dante and our Modern era.

His main research interests are Dante Studies, Reception Studies, and Contemporary Italian Poetry.

Publications:

Articles

(forthcoming 2024) '"Poetessa isolata"? Per riposizionare Parole di Antonia Pozzi nella poesia del Novecento', in Atti del Convegno "Per un nuovo canone del Novecento letterario italiano. Le poetesse" (Rome: AdI Editore, 2024).

(forthcoming 2023) 'Variazioni narrative e allegoriche sulla selva dantesca nell'opera di Giorgio Caproni', Tenzone, 22.

(2023) '"Celebrating 700 anni di Dante": A New Branding', Perspectives Médiévales, 44.

(2021) 'La selva, le fiere, la guida: memorie dantesche di ‘Inferno’ I nella poesia di Giorgio Caproni', L’Alighieri. Rassegna Dantesca, 56.

Academic Reviews

(forthcoming 2023) The Afterlife of Dante's Vita Nova in the Anglophone World. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Translation and Reception History, edited by F. Coluzzi and J. Blakesley (New York, London: Routledge, 2022), L'Alighieri. Rassegna Dantesca.

(forthcoming 2023) Narrative Strategies for Participation in Dante’' Divine Comedy, by Katherine Powlesland (Cambridge: Legenda, 2022), Bibliotheca Dantesca.

(2022) Dante Beyond Influence. Rethinking Reception in Victorian Literary Culture, by Federica Coluzzi (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021), L'Alighieri. Rassegna dantesca, 59.