Aniello Di Iorio

• Master of Arts in Italian Literature (UCLA)
• Bachelor of Arts in Italian (UCLA)
• Bachelor of Arts in Political Theory (UCLA)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My academic research focuses on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, with a focus on Dante and the art of memory. I am particularly interested in the art of memory and its peculiarly interlaced role along the philosophical, psychological, historical, and literary spectrum. My research aims also at the study of the medieval ruse (beffa), deception, irony, as well as the receptions of the laughter and comicality across the realms of Italian, Spanish, English, and French medieval literatures.

DISSERTATION TITLE

Dante and the Art of Memory

COURSES TAUGHT

LECTURER / MAIN INSTRUCTOR (University of Wisconsin-Madison):

• Course Title: Of Demons and Angels: Dante’s Divine Comedy in Translation, Spring 2020 – A cross listed course taught in English (Literature in Translation 253 / Medieval Studies 253 / Religious Studies 253)

TEACHING ASSISTANT (University of Wisconsin-Madison):

• Italian I (First Semester Italian), Instructor of record – Fall 2014
• Italian II (Second Semester Italian), Instructor of record – Spring 2015 to 2017
• Italian III (Third Semester Italian), Instructor of record – Fall 2016
• Italian IV (Fourth Semester Italian), Instructor of record – Fall 2018
• Literature in Translation of French & Italian Renaissance Literature – Sum. 2018 & Sp. 2019, Head TA for Spring 2019

LECTURER / MAIN INSTRUCTOR (Wagner College Department of Modern Languages – New York):

• Italian Cinema and Culture – Spring 2010
• Contemporary Italian Literature & Culture – Spring 2010
• Italian Literature of the Middle Ages & Renaissance – Fall 2009
• Taught all the levels of Italian Language (Italian I-IV) – Spring 2009 to Spring 2010

LECTURER / MAIN INSTRUCTOR (College of Staten Island / C.U.N.Y. – Department of Modern Languages – New York):

• Taught all the levels of Italian Language (Italian I-IV) – Spring 2009 to Spring 2010

TEACHING ASSISTANT (UCLA):

• Italian I – Fall 2007
• Italian II – Winter 2008
• Italian III – Spring 2008

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

INVITED LECTURES

• Lecture presented at a graduate course entitled Dante’s Inferno. Department of French & Italian at the University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, October 27^th 2020 – “The Quest for Dante’s Memory in the beginning cantos of Inferno.”.
• Lecture presented at Congresso Dantesco Internazionale: Alma Dante, Ravenna, 29 maggio – 1 giugno 2019 – Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali “Un nodo ibrido tra la bestialità cannibalistica, il sacrificio Cristiano e la parodia salvifica e/o derisoria nell’Inferno di Dante.” Paper presented at the Congresso Dantesco Internazionale: Alma Dante, Ravenna, May 2019.

 ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

• “Stretching the Human Bounds and Making the Unknowable Known.” Paper presented at the (DSA) Dante Society of America Annual Meeting – Saint Louis, Missouri, May 2020.
• “Dante’s Aristotelian Scent of Memory between the Convivio and the Divina Commedia.” Paper presented at the (AAIS) American Association of Italian Studies & (AATI) American Association of Teachers of Italian – Tucson, Arizona, March 2020.
• “Transcending Human Boundaries through Dante’s Idea of Trans-Humanization.” Paper presented at the Graduate Association of Medieval Studies – 7^th Annual Medieval Studies Colloquium, Madison, WI, April 2020.
• “[…] massimamente ne li sensibili comuni, là dove lo senso spesse volte è ingannato: The Upsurge of Vision Restraints Subdues to the Power of Ethical Authorship.” Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Italian Studies Conference, Orvieto, June 2019.
• “The Representations of Shame in Dante’s Comedy and the Pilgrim’s Perpetration to Heal its Emotional Fault.” Paper presented at the Graduate Association of French & Italian Studies Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, April 2019.
• “La parodia e/o lo scherno infernale tra cannibalismo e comunione in Inferno XXXII e XXXIII.” Paper presented at the American Association of Italian Studies Conference, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem (NC), March 2019.
• “The Allegorical Representation of the Prideful in Dante’s Purgatorio.” Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University, MS, June 2018.
• “Paradiso XXIV-XXV and Dante’s Quest for Future Glory: Interweaving Human Senses Between the Ars Memorativa and the Theological Virtues of Faith and Hope.” Paper presented at the Canadian Society of Italian Studies Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 2018.
• “Unveiling the Hidden Skin: Dante’s Visualization of the Prideful in the Illuminated Manuscript MS. Holkham 48.” Paper presented at the Graduate Association of French & Italian Studies Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, April 2018.
• “Games and Artistic Intimations in Dante’s Commedia.” Paper presented at the 52^nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2017.
• “Inferno XXXIII: A Poetical Reminiscence.” Paper presented at the 51^st International Congress On Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2016.
• “Bandello’s Beffa Devoid of Laughter.” Paper presented at the 49^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2014.
• “Dante’s Ironical Perception of the Ruse from Inferno XXI-XXIII.” Paper presented at the Comparative Literature Department Graduate Center Conference, C.U.N.Y., New York, February 2011.
• “La fine della cortesia nel Trecentonovelle.” Paper presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 2009.
• “Lo spazio in balia della velocità.” Paper presented at the Southern Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, November 2008.

CAMPUS & DEPARTMENT TALKS:

• “’Ogne lingua per certo verrìa meno / per lo nostro sermone e per la mente / c’hanno a tanto comprender poco seno’ (Inf., XXVIII.4-6) – The Feebleness of Dante’s Biological Memory and the Question of Ineffability.” Phd diss. chapt., at the French & Italian Departmental Research Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2018.

CAMPUS & DEPARTMENT GUEST LECTURES:

• “Boccaccio’s Decameron, first part of Day 9 – the first five tales and its introduction.” Guest Lecture presented in the course of Literature in Translation 255 – Boccaccio’s Decameron – The Human Comedy, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, December 2019.
• “Boccaccio’s Decameron, first part of Day 6 – the first five tales and its introduction.” Guest Lecture presented in the course of Literature in Translation 255 – Boccaccio’s Decameron – The Human Comedy, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, November 2019.
• “Dante’s Paradiso I-III.” Guest Lectures presented in the course of Literature in Translation 253 – Of Demons and Angels: Dante’s Divine Comedy, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, April 2019.
• “Boccaccio’s Decameron, second part of Day 9 – the last five tales and its conclusion.” Guest Lecture presented in the course of Literature in Translation 255 – Boccaccio’s Decameron, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, November 2018.
• “Boccaccio’s Decameron, Proemio and Introduction to Day 1.” Guest Lectures presented in the course of Italian Literature & Culture I 321, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, November 2017.
• “Dante’s Purgatorio XXIV-XXXIII & Paradiso I-II.” Guest Lectures presented in the course of Literature in Translation 253 – Dante’s Divine Comedy, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, April 2016.
• “Dante’s Inferno XXVI.” Guest Lecture presented in the course of Italian 113 – Dante’s La Divina Commedia, at the University of California Los Angeles, March 2008.

PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES & ESSAYS

• The Educational Aspect of Bandello’s Beffa.” Italica (under review – Spring 2022).
• “La riscrittura parodica dell’eucaristia negli ultimi canti dell’Inferno di Dante.” Special issue for the Seventh Centenary of Dante’s Death, Annali d’Italianistica (forthcoming Fall 2021).
• “The Course of memory in Dante’s Inferno V and Diego De San Pedro Cárcel de Amor.” Rivista di Studi Italiani (August 2020)
• “Dante’s Perception of The Ruse from Inferno XXI-XXIII”. Special issue for the 750 years of the Birth of Dante Alighieri, Rivista di Studi Italiani, no. 1 (June 2015): 19-44.
• “Giovanni Raboni nel Limbo.” Carte Allineate, no. 34 (November 2009): 6-14.
• “La sensibilità percettiva in balia della velocità futurista”. Special issue for the Centenary of the Birth of Italian Futurism, Rivista di Studi Italiani, no. 1 (June 2009): 111-126.

TRANSLATIONS

• Yau, John. “The Corpse and the Mirrors.” In Nuova Poesia Americana – New York, translated by Aniello Di Iorio, 911-930. Milano: Mondadori Editore, October 2009.

• Davis, Jordan. “The Book of American Types.” In Nuova Poesia Americana – New York, translated by Aniello Di Iorio, 224-234. Milano: Mondadori Editore, October 2009
• Yau, John. “Parallel Lives.” Journal of Italian Translation, translated by Aniello Di Iorio, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 140-149.

BOOK REVIEWS

• Review of Guittone d’Arezzo: Selected Poems and Prose, by Antonello Borra. Annali d’Italianistica 36 (Fall 2018): 527-530.
• Review of Dante’s Tears, The Poetics of Weeping from Vita Nuova to the Commedia, by Rossana Fenu Barbera. Forum Italicum 52 no. 1 (Spring 2018): 202-204.