White, Laura Sanguineti

Professor of Italian

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Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Laurea University of Trieste
Diploma of Translator in English and French. Univ. of Trieste.
Diploma from the Acting School, Piccolo Teatro of Trieste.
Address: AB 5107 - 15 Seminary Place
Phone: 848-932-5110

 RESEARCH INTERESTS

Literature of the 13th Century, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Baroque, Enlightenment, Food Sudies and Venetian Studies

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT 

Undergraduate

• Boccaccio
• Petrarca
• Baroque and Enlightenment
• Literature, Culture and Gastronomy of Italy
• Introducing Italy City by City: Venice

Graduate

• Boccaccio
• Petrarca
• Theater and poetry of the Baroque
• Enlightenment
• Autobiography of the 18th century
• Literature and Gastronomy of Italy

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• La poesia del silenzio, Editore Serra, Pisa-Roma, Mach 2018.
• Seduzione e privazione. Il cibo nel Decameron, Collana Morgana, Pacini Fazzi Editore, 2016. The book was presented at the Real Collegio in Lucca by Lina Bolzoni and reviewed in Il Sole 24 Ore.
  
• Venice:”Cità Excellentissima” Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo, with P. Labalme, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
  
• Studi in onore di Marga Cottino-Jones, co-editor and partecipant, Cadmo, 2003.
  
• Forma e parola, co-editor and partecipant, Bulzoni, 1993.
  
• Dal detto alla figura, Olschki, 1992.
  
• La scena conviviale e la sua funzione nel mondo del Boccaccio, Olschki, 1983.
  
• Boccaccio e Apuleio: caratteri differenziali nella struttura del Decameron, Edizioni Italiane Moderne, 1977.

Selected Articles

• "In viaggio con il giovane Marin Sanudo” in Visioni d’Istria, Fiume, Dalmazia nella Letteratura Italiana, Editore Serra, 2020, Pisa-Roma.
• "Prospecttive trecentesche su Venezia" in Doalogo. Studi in memoria di Angela Caracciolo Aricò, Venice, Centro di Studi Medioevali e Rinascimentali "E. A. Cicogna," 2016.
• “Le tentazioni di re Carlo: Decameron X, 6” in Lettere Italiane (2012).
• “How to (and how not to) get married in 16th century Venice” with P. Labalme, in Renaissance Quarterly (1999).
• “Un’identità ritrovata nel successo”in Nuova Antologia,(1998)
• “Federico Della Valle e la critica” in Lettere Italiane (1990)
• “Aristodemo, tragedia della libertà” in Studi Secenteschi (1988).
• “In tristitia hilaris in hilaritate tristis: armonia nei contrasti” in Quaderni di Italianistica (1984).
• “Il teatro di Federico Della Valle” in Canadian Journal of Italian Studies (1984).

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2013 (Spring) Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
• 2005 Awarded the title of Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana by the President of Italy.
• 2003-04 Director’s Visitor, Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
• 2002-present Commissioner of the Italian Heritage Commission appointed by the NJ Governor.
• 1999 Inducted in the Italian American National Hall of Fame.
• 1993-95 Grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
• 1992 Chancellor Dissertation Fellowship (UCLA).