Paolo Celi

Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy)

The vernacular and the rhetoric of science at the Accademia degli Infiammati in Padua

2024–2025: Spring

Paolo Celi is the Principal Investigator in a University of Padua research project on sixteenth-century correspondence sonnets, based on the case study of the Florentine poet, philosopher, and historian Benedetto Varchi. He graduated in Modern Philology with Giuliano Tanturli at the University of Florence and obtained his PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Pisa with a project on Bronzino's lyric poetry, for which he is preparing a complete critical and annotated edition. He was recently an Ahmanson Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2022–2023), and an H.P. Kraus Fellow at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.