Antonio Ricci
Associate Professor
Email: aricci@yorku.ca
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PhD, University of Toronto
European Literature and Cultural History. The history of the book (the print culture of Renaissance Italy, reading, bibliography). Italian Studies. Renaissance Studies.
Degrees
PhD, University of TorontoM.A., University of Toronto
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesProfessional Leadership
Chair, Committee on Research Policy and Planning, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. 2017–19.
Executive Committee, Faculty Council of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. 2020–23.
Comitato Nazionale per il V Centenario della pubblicazione dell’Orlando Furioso, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (National Committee for the 5th centenary of the publication of Orlando Furioso, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Republic of Italy). 2015–December 2018.
Peer Review Committee, SSHRC Connection Grant. June 2017, December 2017.
Senate of York University. 2009–12 and 2016–19.
Co-organizer and co-director, York U. Summer Studies Program in Italy (Florence and Rome). 2010–12.
Co-ordinator, Canada-EU Academic Mobility program (CEMMENTI), York International. 2007–09.
Community Contributions
National Board of Directors, Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies. 2005–present. President of the Toronto Chapter, 2005–12.
Cultural Advisory Council of Villa Charities Inc., May 2018–present.
Research Interests
- Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography, Houghton Library, Harvard U - 2015
- Charles Montgomery Gray Fellowship, The Newberry Library, Chicago - 2015
- Visiting Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies - 2021–22, 2022–23
- York Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies - 2016–2017
- Connection Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - 2016
“Real Presences: Literature and Artifacts in Early Modern Italy.” In Rituals of Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Edward Muir. Eds. M. Jurdjevic & R. Strom-Olsen. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2016. 235–257.
“The Business of Print in Ducal Florence: The Case of Anton Francesco Doni.” In Dissonanze Discordi [Discordant Dissonances]. Ed. Giovanna Rizzarelli. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013. 45–70.
“Lorenzo Torrentino and the Cultural Programme of Cosimo I de’ Medici.” In The Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici. Ed. K. Eisenbichler. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. 103–119.
Angela Nuovo. The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance. Trans. L.G. Cochrane. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2013. In SHARP News 23.4 (Autumn 2014): 17.
Arnaldo Ganda. Filippo Cavagni da Lavagna: Editore, tipografo, commerciante a Milano nel Quattrocento. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2006. In Renaissance Quarterly LXI.2 (2008): 507–509.
“Et in arcadia ego: La nascita della tradizione bibliografica ariostesca.” Italica 93.3 (Fall 2016): 433–56.
“The Renaissance in Toronto: Early Modern Italian Books in the Collections of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.” Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 37.3 (2014): 181–212.
“Ariosto Cancels Machiavelli.” Communities of Print: Authors, Readers, and Printers in the Early Modern World. Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium Conference, September 2024.
“The Making of a Renaissance Bestseller: Giolito and the Orlando Furioso.” Witches and Fairies before and after Ariosto. The Center for Italian Studies at U. of Pennsylvania, April 2017 (plenary, invited).
“Men in Black: Collectors and Bibliographers of the Orlando Furioso.” Ariosto After 500 Years: A Symposium. The Graduate Center – CUNY & New York U. 20.X.2016 (plenary, invited).
“Real Absences: Books and Texts in Early Modern Italy.” Rethinking Early Modernity: Methodological and Critical Innovation since the Ritual Turn. Centre for Reformation & Renaissance Studies, Victoria U. in the U. of Toronto, June 2014.
“Literature and Artifacts: Ariosto among the Bibliographers.” Philological Concerns: Textual Criticism throughout the Centuries. U. of Toronto, 2013.
“Anton Francesco Doni e la stampa fiorentina nel principato mediceo.” Dissonanze concordi: Temi, questioni e personaggi intorno ad Anton Francesco Doni, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2012 (invited).
“Orlando Furioso and the History of the Book.” Ariosto: Roundtable on Trends in Criticism. American Association for Italian Studies. Pittsburgh, 2011.
“The Culture and Business of Print in Ducal Florence.” Rethinking Early Modern Print Culture. Centre for Ref. and Ren. Studies, Victoria U. in the U. of Toronto, 2010.
“The Prince and his Publishers: The Politics and Practice of Printing in Sixteenth-Century Florence.” Further Transactions of the Book: A Conference at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, 2006 (org. by Anthony Grafton, Ann Blair, and Kathleen Lynch; invited.)
“‘Il noi diviso’: The Discourse of National Identity in Contemporary Italian Culture.” AAIS. Genoa, 2006.
“Una patria di carta: The Migrant Press and the Construction of Italian-Canadian Identity,” with Matteo Brera. For public launch of the digital platform of the Angelo Principe Italian Canadian Newspaper Collection. Columbus Centre, Toronto, June 28, 2022.
“Dante’s Francesca: The Seduction of Literature and the Lure of Beauty.” Ernescliff College, Young Professionals Speaker Series, June 8, 2021.
“Renaissance Readers and Their Books: Representations of a Fugitive Act.” Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies & College of the Humanities, Carleton University, March 7, 2021.
“A Tex Willer Evening: A Celebration of the Italian Comic Book Tex.” Columbus Centre/Villa Charities, Toronto, 23 October 2019. Panel conversation, discussant.
“History of Books. From Paper to Electronics: How Books, Readers and Means of Reading Have Changed over Time.” Librissimi: The Toronto Italian Book Festival 2018. Columbus Centre, 5 May 2018.
“The Book: From Print to Digital.” Keynote lecture and round-table on “The Book and Cultural Diversity”, held as part of UNESCO’s World Book and Copyright Day. Univ. of Toronto, 2010.
“The Publishing Industry in Italy Today.” Introductory lecture and round-table on “Italian Books,” held as part of UNESCO’s World Book and Copyright Day. Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Toronto, 2006.
“On the Origins of Florence: History and Myth in the Cinquecento.” Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies, 2005.
Convenor and organizer: “The Orlando Furioso from Print to Digital: Five Centuries of Reading Ariosto,” international symposium, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College in the U. of Toronto, Nov 11 & 12, 2016. https://crrs.ca/event/symposium-orlando-furioso/
The Early Extant Manuscripts of Baldassar Castiglione’s “Il libro del cortegiano” (Transcriptions of “The Book of the Courtier” Manuscript.) Transcribed by Olga Zorzi Pugliese, together with Lorenzo Bartoli, Filomena Calabrese, Adriana Grimaldi, Ian Martin, Laura Prelipcean, and Antonio Ricci. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32401. Issue date: 30 June 2012. (Digital Edition, member of editorial team)
“Printing and Publishing.” In Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Eds. Gaetana Marrone, Paolo Puppa, Luca Somigli. 2 vols. New York: Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2007. 1504–1509. (Enclopedia article)
Approach to Teaching
Graduate: GS/HUMA 6334 & EN 6334 A History of Reading: Texts and Artifacts from Antiquity to the Digital Age. Undergraduate: HUMA 1125 The Civilization of Medieval and Renaissance Europe; HUMA3604 Italy, The Beautiful Country; HUMA 4630 Text and Interpretation; HUMA1751/IT1751 Italian Culture: The Great Ideas and the Masterworks; HUMA3312/IT4775 Media and the Idea of Italy; IT4300 Italian Renaissance Literature; IT4400 Orlando Furioso: Renaissance Bestseller; IT3370 Boccaccio; IT4330 The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri; IT2200 Introduction to Italian Literature; IT3760/3761 Italian Medieval and Renaissance Civilization (in Florence); IT 4750 Modern Italian Culture; IT 4620 20th-Century Italian Poetry.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1125 9.0 | A | Medieval and Renaissance Europe | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1125 9.0 | A | Medieval and Renaissance Europe | TUTR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA3604 6.0 | A | Italy, The Beautiful Country | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1125 9.0 | A | Medieval and Renaissance Europe | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1125 9.0 | A | Medieval and Renaissance Europe | TUTR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA3604 6.0 | A | Italy, The Beautiful Country | SEMR |
PhD, University of Toronto
European Literature and Cultural History. The history of the book (the print culture of Renaissance Italy, reading, bibliography). Italian Studies. Renaissance Studies.
Degrees
PhD, University of TorontoM.A., University of Toronto
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesProfessional Leadership
Chair, Committee on Research Policy and Planning, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. 2017–19.
Executive Committee, Faculty Council of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. 2020–23.
Comitato Nazionale per il V Centenario della pubblicazione dell’Orlando Furioso, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (National Committee for the 5th centenary of the publication of Orlando Furioso, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Republic of Italy). 2015–December 2018.
Peer Review Committee, SSHRC Connection Grant. June 2017, December 2017.
Senate of York University. 2009–12 and 2016–19.
Co-organizer and co-director, York U. Summer Studies Program in Italy (Florence and Rome). 2010–12.
Co-ordinator, Canada-EU Academic Mobility program (CEMMENTI), York International. 2007–09.
Community Contributions
National Board of Directors, Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies. 2005–present. President of the Toronto Chapter, 2005–12.
Cultural Advisory Council of Villa Charities Inc., May 2018–present.
Research Interests
Awards
- Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography, Houghton Library, Harvard U - 2015
- Charles Montgomery Gray Fellowship, The Newberry Library, Chicago - 2015
- Visiting Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies - 2021–22, 2022–23
- York Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies - 2016–2017
- Connection Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - 2016
All Publications
“Real Presences: Literature and Artifacts in Early Modern Italy.” In Rituals of Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Edward Muir. Eds. M. Jurdjevic & R. Strom-Olsen. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2016. 235–257.
“The Business of Print in Ducal Florence: The Case of Anton Francesco Doni.” In Dissonanze Discordi [Discordant Dissonances]. Ed. Giovanna Rizzarelli. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013. 45–70.
“Lorenzo Torrentino and the Cultural Programme of Cosimo I de’ Medici.” In The Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici. Ed. K. Eisenbichler. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. 103–119.
Angela Nuovo. The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance. Trans. L.G. Cochrane. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2013. In SHARP News 23.4 (Autumn 2014): 17.
Arnaldo Ganda. Filippo Cavagni da Lavagna: Editore, tipografo, commerciante a Milano nel Quattrocento. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2006. In Renaissance Quarterly LXI.2 (2008): 507–509.
“Et in arcadia ego: La nascita della tradizione bibliografica ariostesca.” Italica 93.3 (Fall 2016): 433–56.
“The Renaissance in Toronto: Early Modern Italian Books in the Collections of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.” Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 37.3 (2014): 181–212.
“Ariosto Cancels Machiavelli.” Communities of Print: Authors, Readers, and Printers in the Early Modern World. Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium Conference, September 2024.
“The Making of a Renaissance Bestseller: Giolito and the Orlando Furioso.” Witches and Fairies before and after Ariosto. The Center for Italian Studies at U. of Pennsylvania, April 2017 (plenary, invited).
“Men in Black: Collectors and Bibliographers of the Orlando Furioso.” Ariosto After 500 Years: A Symposium. The Graduate Center – CUNY & New York U. 20.X.2016 (plenary, invited).
“Real Absences: Books and Texts in Early Modern Italy.” Rethinking Early Modernity: Methodological and Critical Innovation since the Ritual Turn. Centre for Reformation & Renaissance Studies, Victoria U. in the U. of Toronto, June 2014.
“Literature and Artifacts: Ariosto among the Bibliographers.” Philological Concerns: Textual Criticism throughout the Centuries. U. of Toronto, 2013.
“Anton Francesco Doni e la stampa fiorentina nel principato mediceo.” Dissonanze concordi: Temi, questioni e personaggi intorno ad Anton Francesco Doni, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2012 (invited).
“Orlando Furioso and the History of the Book.” Ariosto: Roundtable on Trends in Criticism. American Association for Italian Studies. Pittsburgh, 2011.
“The Culture and Business of Print in Ducal Florence.” Rethinking Early Modern Print Culture. Centre for Ref. and Ren. Studies, Victoria U. in the U. of Toronto, 2010.
“The Prince and his Publishers: The Politics and Practice of Printing in Sixteenth-Century Florence.” Further Transactions of the Book: A Conference at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, 2006 (org. by Anthony Grafton, Ann Blair, and Kathleen Lynch; invited.)
“‘Il noi diviso’: The Discourse of National Identity in Contemporary Italian Culture.” AAIS. Genoa, 2006.
“Una patria di carta: The Migrant Press and the Construction of Italian-Canadian Identity,” with Matteo Brera. For public launch of the digital platform of the Angelo Principe Italian Canadian Newspaper Collection. Columbus Centre, Toronto, June 28, 2022.
“Dante’s Francesca: The Seduction of Literature and the Lure of Beauty.” Ernescliff College, Young Professionals Speaker Series, June 8, 2021.
“Renaissance Readers and Their Books: Representations of a Fugitive Act.” Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies & College of the Humanities, Carleton University, March 7, 2021.
“A Tex Willer Evening: A Celebration of the Italian Comic Book Tex.” Columbus Centre/Villa Charities, Toronto, 23 October 2019. Panel conversation, discussant.
“History of Books. From Paper to Electronics: How Books, Readers and Means of Reading Have Changed over Time.” Librissimi: The Toronto Italian Book Festival 2018. Columbus Centre, 5 May 2018.
“The Book: From Print to Digital.” Keynote lecture and round-table on “The Book and Cultural Diversity”, held as part of UNESCO’s World Book and Copyright Day. Univ. of Toronto, 2010.
“The Publishing Industry in Italy Today.” Introductory lecture and round-table on “Italian Books,” held as part of UNESCO’s World Book and Copyright Day. Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Toronto, 2006.
“On the Origins of Florence: History and Myth in the Cinquecento.” Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies, 2005.
Convenor and organizer: “The Orlando Furioso from Print to Digital: Five Centuries of Reading Ariosto,” international symposium, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College in the U. of Toronto, Nov 11 & 12, 2016. https://crrs.ca/event/symposium-orlando-furioso/
The Early Extant Manuscripts of Baldassar Castiglione’s “Il libro del cortegiano” (Transcriptions of “The Book of the Courtier” Manuscript.) Transcribed by Olga Zorzi Pugliese, together with Lorenzo Bartoli, Filomena Calabrese, Adriana Grimaldi, Ian Martin, Laura Prelipcean, and Antonio Ricci. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32401. Issue date: 30 June 2012. (Digital Edition, member of editorial team)
“Printing and Publishing.” In Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Eds. Gaetana Marrone, Paolo Puppa, Luca Somigli. 2 vols. New York: Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2007. 1504–1509. (Enclopedia article)
Approach to Teaching
Graduate: GS/HUMA 6334 & EN 6334 A History of Reading: Texts and Artifacts from Antiquity to the Digital Age. Undergraduate: HUMA 1125 The Civilization of Medieval and Renaissance Europe; HUMA3604 Italy, The Beautiful Country; HUMA 4630 Text and Interpretation; HUMA1751/IT1751 Italian Culture: The Great Ideas and the Masterworks; HUMA3312/IT4775 Media and the Idea of Italy; IT4300 Italian Renaissance Literature; IT4400 Orlando Furioso: Renaissance Bestseller; IT3370 Boccaccio; IT4330 The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri; IT2200 Introduction to Italian Literature; IT3760/3761 Italian Medieval and Renaissance Civilization (in Florence); IT 4750 Modern Italian Culture; IT 4620 20th-Century Italian Poetry.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1125 9.0 | A | Medieval and Renaissance Europe | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1125 9.0 | A | Medieval and Renaissance Europe | TUTR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA3604 6.0 | A | Italy, The Beautiful Country | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1125 9.0 | A | Medieval and Renaissance Europe | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA1125 9.0 | A | Medieval and Renaissance Europe | TUTR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HUMA3604 6.0 | A | Italy, The Beautiful Country | SEMR |
