Italian Studies

While at Brown, Francesco Borghesi focused on his major scholarly contribution to date, a critical edition of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Letters, the object of his dissertation, written under the direction of Massimo Riva, later published in Italian by Olschki (2018) and forthcoming in English in the I Tatti series of Harvard University Press. He contributed to the Brown-University of Bologna Pico Project and co-edited (with Michael Papio and Massimo Riva) the Cambridge UP edition of Pico's Oration on Human Dignity (2012). Before joining the faculty at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, he was an Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. His current research focuses on the diffusion of the idea of ethical concord during the Renaissance, the Jesuit translations of Confucian classics and the reception of the image of China in Italian literature between the sixteenth and the eighteenth century.