Antonio Ricci
Associate Professor
Email: aricci@yorku.ca
PhD, University of Toronto
European Literature and Cultural History. The history of the book (the print culture of Renaissance Italy, reading, bibliography). Renaissance Studies. Italian Studies.
Degrees
PhD, University of TorontoAppointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesResearch Interests
- Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography, Houghton Library, Harvard U - 2015
- Charles Montgomery Gray Fellowship, The Newberry Library, Chicago - 2015
“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.
“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).
“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.
“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.
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; HUMA 4630 Text and Interpretation; HUMA1751/IT1751 9.0, 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 / IT3761 Italian Medieval and Renaissance Civilization (in Florence)
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). Renaissance Studies. Italian Studies.
Degrees
PhD, University of TorontoAppointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesResearch Interests
Awards
- Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography, Houghton Library, Harvard U - 2015
- Charles Montgomery Gray Fellowship, The Newberry Library, Chicago - 2015
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.
“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).
“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.
“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.
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; HUMA 4630 Text and Interpretation; HUMA1751/IT1751 9.0, 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 / IT3761 Italian Medieval and Renaissance Civilization (in Florence)
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 |
