Olga Zorzi Pugliese

A full-time member of the department for 45 years (1967-2012), she served as Chair of the Department of Italian Studies and Goggio Chair from 1997 to 2002. As a Fellow at Victoria College, she taught in the Renaissance Studies program there and was Director of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies from 2005 to 2009. In the profession she served as President of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies (2005-2008) and, in 2008, received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies. Her main field of specialization has been Renaissance literature. In addition to editions, translations and many articles, she authored the monographs titled Il discorso del dialogo rinascimentale (Rome: Bulzoni, 1995) and Castiglione’s ‘Book of the Courtier’: A Classic in the Making (Naples: ESI, 2008). Her latest publications on the Renaissance are two articles on Machiavelli that appeared in 2021. For many years now she has also been working on Italian Canadian subjects, publishing a book (with Angelo Principe) on the founding of the Famee Furlane of Toronto, articles on Friulian antifascists in Canada, the paintings of Albert Chiarandini, mosaic artwork by Italian Canadians, and the diary of Giovanna Chiarandini. A 2-volume festschrift titled A Garland of Gifts: Essays in Honour of Olga Zorzi Pugliese (ed. K. Eisenbichler and P. Sabbatino) was presented to her on her 80^th birthday in November 2021