Italian Studies

Stefania Buccini's research focuses on eighteenth, and early nineteenth-century Italian literature and culture, Baroque novel and poetry, Counter-reformation sacred oratory, libertine fiction and ideology, antique printed editions and early modern manuscripts. Among her books, Il dilemma della Grande Atlantide.  Le Americhe nella letteratura italiana del Settecento e del primo Ottocento (1990), the subject of her dissertation at Brown, written under the direction of Franco Fido, and The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture:  1700-1825 (1997).