Matteo Cazzato

-2024 (expected): PhD in Italian Philology and Romanische Literaturwissenschaft, funded by the international program "Forms of cultural exchange", Faculty of Humanities of Trento University (Departments of excellence M.I.U.R) in cooperation with Philologisch-Historische Fakultät of Augsburg University.  Thesis: Boiardo lettore di Dante. Comunicazione letteraria e intertestualità a Ferrara nella loro dimensione storica   

-October 2019 - June 2020, Postgraduate degree "Teaching Italian to Foreigners - Didactics of Italian second language" (1500 hours, 60 credits), score 70/70, Giustino Fortunato Telematic University.

-15/07/2019, Master degree in Modern Philology, Pavia University, 110/110 cum laude, thesis: Forme della conoscenza nei Paralipomeni di Leopardi: stile e gnoseologia fra idee astratte e realtà concrete, supervisor: Prof. Pietro Benzoni (Pavia), co-supervisor: Prof. C. E. Roggia (Geneva).

-October 2018 - February 2019: curricular internship at the ILC-CNR CoPhiLab, digital philology (funded with a study award from Collegio Ghislieri).

-Fall semester 2017/2018: "Faculté des lettres" of the University of Geneva.

-21/02/2017, Bachelor degree in Humanities, Pavia University, 110/110 cum laude, thesis: ‘A filosofia der Riccetto. Spie lessicali  dalle borgate di P. P. Pasolini (supervisor: Prof. M. A. Grignani, co-supervisor: Prof. P. Benzoni).

-September 2014 - July 2019: Student of the Ghislieri College of Pavia.

-High School Degree for literary and classical studies (100/100 cum laude), Liceo di Stato G. Bagatta, Desenzano del Garda (BS), 2009-2014.

-Since September 2023, holder of a confirmed chair in High School for Literary and Historical Studies at the Luigi Cerebotani Institute (Lonato del Garda - BS), with periods of suspension of teaching activity  to carry out research assignments at university.

-Selected for integrative teaching for philological and literary studies, support for preparing exams, academic year 2022-2023

-Selected for a specific integrative teaching program on the Chair of “History of Italian Language” (Prof. Serenella Baggio - Trento University), in particular for Erasmus studens, introduction to linguistics studies and presentation of Carlo Goldoni and his work - hours : 40 - academic year 2022-2023 

-Selected for integrative teaching for philological and literary studies, support for preparing exams, academic year 2021-2022

-Selected for a specific integrative teaching program on the Chair of “History of Italian Language” (Prof. Serenella Baggio - Trento University), in particular for Erasmus studens, introduction to linguistics studies and italian dialectology - hours: 35 - winter semester 2021-2022

-Methodological and bibliographical support, within the context of an integrative teaching role, for a Bachelor thesis (thesis defended in October 2022) on syntax and punctuation in Natalia Ginzburg's works, on behalf of Professor of History of the Italian Language lecturer

-Selected for a specific integrative teaching program on the Chair of “Romance Philology” (Prof. Roberta Capelli - Trento University), history of medieval romance literatures - hours: 18 - March 2022

-Italian Literature from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary

-Romance Literatures

-Comparative Literature

-Claudio Magris

-Biagio Marin

-Pier Paolo Pasolini

-Giacomo Leopardi

-Humanism and Renaissance 

-Matteo Maria Boiardo 

-Dante Alighieri

-Bonvesin da la Riva

-Intertextuality

-Reception Studies

-Commentary and exegesis

-Cultural History 

-Didactic of Italian Language and Literature

- October - November 2023: Visiting PhD scholar at Institut für Italienische und Romanische Philologie der LMU München, funded by the University of Trento PhD fund. Tutor: Prof. Florian Mehltretter. I carried out bibliographical and archival research, worked on the completion of the thesis, attended conferences, and lectured at some seminars held at the institute.

-Winter semester 2022-2023: Visiting PhD scholar at the Section d'Italien of the Université de Lausanne, funded by Erasmus Traineeship and Swiss-European Mobility Programme. Tutor: Prof. Simone Albonico. Attendance at conferences and seminars (also within the context of Italian Studies Doctoral Program of CUSO), bibliographical and methodological research. Active participation in a research seminar within the Section d'Italien. 

-Summer semester 2022: doctoral period at the Partner University in Augsburg, as required by the Trento PhD program. Attendance at conferences and seminars, and basic language courses.

-September 2021: residential research seminar hosted by the Natalino Sapegno Foundation - Morgex (AO), “Dante e la letteratura dell’Occidente”, tutor: Prof. Piero Boitani

-November 2020 - January 2024: research grant for the International PhD program in “Forms of cultural exchange”, Trento University (main institution) in cooperation with Universität Augsburg (secondary institution), coordinator: Prof. Fulvio Ferrari; didactic tutors in both universities: Trento-Prof. Roberta Capelli, Augsburg-Prof. Rotraud von Kulessa. Active participation in doctoral research seminars with speeches: El Cid Campeador: deformazione politica e risemantizzazioni letterarie (Corneille, Hugo, Machado, Huidobro) 25 February 2021 - Trento; Animali a processo. Lettura favolistica di una disputatio di Bonvesin 20 May 2021 - Trento; La semantica di Beatrice. Aspetti miracolistici nella Vita Nuova di Dante 31 January 2022 - Trento;  Intertestualità, sistemi di referenza e teoria della ricezione. Convergenze e nuove prospettive metodologiche 11 March 2022 - Augsburg

- March 2019  June 2019: research stay at the CoPhiLab within the Institute of Computational Linguistics "Zampolli" of the CNR of Pisa, funded by the University of Pavia, "Departments of Excellence" project, tutor: dr. Federico Boschetti. Research for master's thesis, stylometric analysis with digital philology tools on Leopardi's heroicomic poem.

- May - July 2018: stay at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris rue d'Ulm, for bibliographic research about Leopardi, Pasolini and literary theory (internarional exchange agreement with Collegio Ghislieri). Talks with professors from the Sorbonne and from Paris Nanterre.

-Fall Semester 2017/2018: research stay for the Master thesis on Leopardi at the Unité d’Italien de l’Université de Genève, with a scholarship by Collegio Ghislieri and the swiss university, tutor: Prof. C. E. Roggia.

-Spring 2017: research in the archives of Collegio Ghislieri in order to organize the exhibition L’esperienza che mi cambiò forse più di ogni altra cosa. I have discovered an unpublished manuscript by Gianfranco Contini.

-Autumn 2016, research for bachelor thesis at Centro Manoscritti (Pavia University), Gabinetto Vieusseux (Florence) and Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (Rome). In Florence I have discovered an unpublished manuscript by P. P. Pasolini.

-September 2014 - July 2019: at the Ghislieri College of Pavia, lectures, seminars and conferences; language courses (English and French). Specific courses: Comparative Literature, Prof. Remo Ceserani (May 2015); Ancient Greek Romance, Prof. Gian Franco Gianotti (April 2016); Plato's Timaeus, Prof. Franco Ferrari (Spring 2016); Myth and Literature, Prof. Pietro Gibellini (November 2016); Latin Philology and Literature, Prof. Gian Biagio Conte (March 2017). Funding to organise seminars, conferences and conventions

-Member of the editorial board of the international journal “Ermeneutica Letteraria” (ANVUR A) 

-Member of the editorial board of “Enciclopedia Dannunziana”

-Associated Member of ADI - Associazione Degli Italianisti

COMPETITIONS

-July 2020: admission by competition to a three-year scholarship (plus a 50% increase in the amount during periods abroad and an additional research budget of 10% of the annual total amount) in the international doctoral school in "Forms of cultural exchange", Faculty of Literature and Philosophy of the University of Trento (Departments of excellence M.I.U.R) and Philologisch-Historische Fakultät von Universität Augsburg, with a research project on a hermeneutic study of Dante's reuse in Renaissance literature. (Accepted)

-June 2020: admission by competition to a three-year scholarship in the École Doctorale Lettres, Langues, Spectacles (LLS) - ED 138 of the Université Nanterre de Paris, with a research project on a hermeneutic study regarding the presence of M. Proust in Pasolini's work. (rejected due to: COVID-19 and preference for Renaissance project)

-September 2014: admission by competition – score 74/80 – to Collegio Ghislieri of Pavia, test subjects: Italian literature, Greek literature and history of philosophy. (Accepted)

-September 2014: admission by competition – score 74/80 – to Almo Collegio Borromeo of Pavia, test subjects: Italian literature, Greek literature and history of philosophy. (Rejected)

ABILITATIONS

-Spring 2023: Abilitation for national competition to teach Literary Disciplines in Italian Middle Schools (class A022)

-Autumn 2022: Abilitation for national competition to teach Literary Disciplines in Italian High Schools (class A012)

Partecipation to: 

-I was invited  to give a lectio about the topic “Tre aspetti dell'ultimo Leopardi, fra società politica e filosofia", at the Italian Philology - Prof. F. Mehltretter, Institut für Italienische Philologie LMU Munich, 4 July 2023

-"Un caso di dantismo quattrocentesco. Boiardo fra ricezione e spie intertestuali" - 5 May 2023 - Rinascimento Letterario. La ricerca dei giovani studiosi (ADI) - Napoli

-"Intrecci di carte e di storie: Boiardo e la cultura narrativa ferrarese, dai Tarocchi all’Inamoramento de Orlando" - 24 March 2023 - Game and space in texts and of texts - Graduate Conference Udine and Trieste Universities

-"Diffrazione di un verso dantesco: Ariosto, Tasso…De Andrè. Riflessioni per una storicizzazione dell’intertestualità dal punto di vista della ricezione" - 26 November 2022 - Testo, autore, pubblico forme di ricezione dall’antichità alla modernità - Graduate Conference Verona University

-"La speranza di un pellegrino attraverso la «città dolente»: dal finale della Vita Nova all'Eden" - 16 September 2021 - International Dante Conference, Alma Dante 2021- Bologna University- Ravenna

-"Didone in Dante e il dibattito sulla natura d'amore" - 14 September 2021 - “Dante e la letteratura dell'Occidente” - Rencontres de l'Archet - Natalino Sapegno Foundation, Morgex (AO)

-I was invited  to give a lectio about the topic “Portrait between poetry and painting in the Renaissance”, at the History of Art Chair - Prof. G. Biasio, Liceo G. Bagatta of Desenzano del Garda (BS), 6 November 2019.

-I was invited  to give a lectio about the topic "P. P. Pasolini's Life and works", at the Italian Literature Chair - Prof. P. Bertolini, Liceo G. Bagatta of Desenzano del Garda (BS), 8 April 2017.

Organization of: 

-Togheter with the members of PhD program in “Forms of cultural exchange”, Graduate Conference Dialoghi sull’identità, 5-7 April 2022, Trento University (funded by Trento University).

-(member of the program committee) "Webinars in Theories and Practices of the Annotation through Domain-Specific Languages", ILC-CNR and Venice Center for Digital and Public Humanities, Autumn 2020.

-I organized a study day on the circumstantial method in literary studies, "Nulla è più importante delle piccolezze... Tecniche d'indagine letteraria " ("Nothing is more important than small things ... Literary investigation techniques"), with the participation of professors Riccardo Stracuzzi, Giancarlo Alfano and Gabriele Frasca, case studies about Foscolo, Sebald and Pynchon, on 15 May 2018 at the Ghislieri College (funded by Collegio Ghislieri Foundation).

-Together with Matteo Quinto and M. A. Grignani and F. Villa I organized the conference Fra realtà e linguaggi nell'opera di Pasolini ("Between reality and languages ​​in Pasolini's texts"), with the participation of professors Roberto Chiesi, Bruno Roberto, Marco Antonio Bazzocchi, Raffaele Donnarumma and Stefano Agosti and Silvia De Laude, at the Collegio Ghislieri, 15-16 March 2018 (funded by Collegio Ghislieri Foundation).

-I worked together with Giulia Delogu to organize the exhibition L’esperienza che mi cambiò forse più di ogni altra cosa, also with job in archive to find informations and documents, March 2017 (funded by Collegio Ghislieri Foundation).

-I organized a seminar about classical myth in Italian Literature, with Prof. Pietro Gibellini, at Ghislieri College, November 2016 (funded by Collegio Ghislieri Foundation).

-I worked together with Giulia Delogu to organize the exhibition L’eleganza di lanciar piatti. Il Ghislieri in rivoluzione (1796-1799), 8-29 may 2016.

-I organized a literary workshop with Professor Claudio Magris on his novel “Non luogo a procedere”, 23/3/2016 (funded by Collegio Ghislieri Foundation).

COOPERATION WITH THE ONLINE CULTURAL AND LITERARY MAGAZINE “LE PAROLE E LE COSE.it” (directors: Massimo Gezzi e Italo Testa) 

-October 6th 2021: “Dante, Maometto e Charlie Hebdo: segni di una crisi persistente” (https://www.leparoleelecose.it/?p=42520)

-November 23rd 2021: “La necessità di distinguere. Lingua, storia e politica” (https://www.leparoleelecose.it/?p=42878)

-February 13th 2022: “Medievalismi danteschi rivisitati. Ricordando Umberto Eco” (https://www.leparoleelecose.it/?p=43451)

-March 6th 2022: “Pasolini, centenario in musica” (https://www.leparoleelecose.it/?p=43594)

-March 24th 2022: “Ricordando Maastricht e la pluralità: il progetto europeo, bilanci oltre i numeri” (https://www.leparoleelecose.it/?p=43746)

-November 7th 2022:  “Appropriazioni indebite: il caso Pasolini. La politica e la — mancanza di — competenza culturale” (http://www.leparoleelecose.it/?p=45468) 

-May 3rd 2023: “Autosufficienza, sovranità, autarchia: tentativi zoppicanti di politica linguistica” (https://www.leparoleelecose.it/?p=46817)

-May 15th 2023: “Crisi migratoria e aspetti d’umanità: riflessioni sparse e consigli di lettura” (https://www.leparoleelecose.it/?p=46900)

COOPERATION WITH THE “CORBACCIO” PUBLISHING HOUSE AS EDITORIAL READER OF FOREIGN TEXTS - ENGLISH AND FRENCH (from September 2018)

PARTECIPATION TO MEDIOEVO: PAURE E NOSTALGIA, DOCU-FILM BY ROBERTA CAPELLI. INTERVENTION ABOUT THE MEDIEVALISM OF UMBERTO ECO (2022)

I HAVE PUBLISHED WITH PUBLISHING HOUSES TRANSEUROPA A COLLECTION PF POEMS (2022): Miraggi di dolcezza. I fiori del mio deserto 

WORK EXPERIENCES

-April - June 2017: internship as proofreader for Mondadori publishing house 

-I worked in the Pavia University Library System, at the Petrarca Library, from September 2016 to January  2017

-I worked for GhislieriMusica as an usher from 2015 to 2018.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

-Italian: mother tongue

-French: very good active and passive knowledge, written and oral

-English: very good active and passive knowledge, written and oral

-Spanish: fair reading ability

-German: basic knowledge

-Latin: very good reading ability

-Greek: good reading ability

ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS

-Course on Work Health and Safety (April 2016).

-Course on Privacy Law (April 2016).

-Course on Basic life support (BLS)  (15/5/2017).

COMPUTER SKILLS

Basic computer skills, corresponding to 4 modules of ECDL certification (Information and Communication Technology, PC Use, Word Processing, Web Browsing and Communication). Skills in the field of Digital Humanities at ILC-CNR Pisa: markup languages (XML), TEI standards, computational practices, XQuery language. 

MUSICAL SKILLS

I studied classical guitar for 12 years. I studied musical theory and solfeggio for 7 years. I studied piano for 5 years. I practiced choral singing for 4 years, within the "University Choir of the Ghislieri College" of Pavia (entrance for audition).