Luca Zipoli

Bryn Mawr College (USA)

Resistance to Neo-Platonic innovations and deviant intellectuals in the circle of Lorenzo de’ Medici: the case of Luigi Pulci

2024–2025: Spring

Luca Zipoli is Assistant Professor in the Department of Transnational Italian Studies at Bryn Mawr College. He holds a Ph.D. in Italian literature from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he also pursued his undergraduate degree. Before joining Bryn Mawr College, he researched and taught at Princeton University, New York University, and the Princeton Study Abroad Program. His main research interests include Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italian epics and theatre, with a specific focus on the figures of Luigi and Antonia Pulci. He addresses this area of scholarly interest through a broadly interdisciplinary perspective, privileging the intersections of fields such as history and visual arts, comparative literature and trans-medial studies, book history, and gender studies. The relationships between historical events, religious beliefs, and literary culture in Renaissance Florence are the main concern of his book-length project, titled Around The Magnificent: Poetry, Magic and Religion in Early Modern Florence, which he is currently developing from his Ph.D. dissertation thanks to the support of the Italian Academy at Columbia University.

Website: https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/people/luca-zipoli

*Photo by Aaron Windhorst