Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- History of Italian Language
- History of Occitan Language
- Italian Philology
- Medieval Italian Literature
- Medieval Occitan Literature
- Romance Linguistics
- Romance Philology
Working Dissertation
Title
Supervisors
Description
Alice's doctoral work consists of the critical edition and linguistic study of the vernacular texts included in a late 15th / early 16th century devotional manuscript related to a lay confraternity in Brignoles, Provence (Béziers, ms. CIRdOC 913), which contains a variety of texts in multiple languages: a collection of laude in a Northwestern variety of Italian, some Occitan orisons and other devotional materials in Latin and French.
Biography
Alice Martignoni is a Ph.D. Candidate in Italian Studies. She is pursuing her degree through a joint supervision between the University of Toronto and the École Pratique de Hautes Études. She received her M.A. in Modern Philology at the University of Pavia, and was a student of the Istituto di Studi Superiori and Collegio S. Caterina da Siena. Her doctoral work consists of the critical edition and linguistic study of a late 15th / early 16th century devotional manuscript related to a lay confraternity in the town of Brignoles, Provence (Béziers, ms. CIRdOC 913). In the last few years, she has also worked on the critical edition of the northern branch of the Cantare di Lion Bruno, and on contemporary Italian and dialect poetry.
Since the beginning of her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, Alice has received several appointments as a course instructor at the Department of Italian Studies, where she taught both Literature (ITA200H1) and Language courses (ITA100Y1; ITA250Y1; ITA450H1). In addition to her appointments with the Department of Italian Studies, Alice has also had appointments in the Department of French (TA for FSL100H1F).
Collaborative Program:
Joint degree ("cotutelle") with the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
Publications
- A. MARTIGNONI, F. PIERNO (eds.). Convergenze plurilingui. Incroci e convivenze linguistiche tra Medioevo e prima età moderna. Berlin / New York: De Gruyter, forthcoming [December 2023]
- A. MARTIGNONI, "Appunti sulla lingua di un laudario (fine XV-inizio XVI secolo?) in una raccolta manoscritta di Brignoles (Mediatèca Occitana-CIRDOC Béziers, ms. 913)". In F. MONTUORI, E. PICCHIORRI (eds), In fieri, 4 Ricerche di linguistica italiana Atti della IV Giornata dell’ASLI per i dottorandi (Firenze, Accademia della Crusca, 2-4 dicembre 2021), Firenze: Cesati, 2023, 181-189.
- A. MARTIGNONI, "Alcune convergenze tra italiano e provenzale in un codice plurilingue redatto a Brignoles (Mediatèca occitana, CIRDOC-Béziers, Ms 913). Analisi linguistica e proposte interpretative". In A. GIRAUDO, W. MELIGA, G. NOTO, A. PONS, M. RIVOIRA (eds), Occitània. Centres e periferias. Occitanie. Centres et phériphéries. Occitania. Centri e periferie. Atti del XIII Congresso dell’AIEO (online, 12-17 luglio 2021), Alessandria: Dell’Orso, forthcoming.
Honours & Awards
- Ontario Trillium Scholarship (2017-2021)
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2021-2023)
- Iter Research Fellowship in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2018 -)
- Charles Hall Grandgent Award for the best graduate student essay, Dante Society of America (2018)
Education
Cohort
- 2017-2018