Jelena Todorović

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Biography

Primary Language

Italian

Specialties and Areas of Research Interest

Medieval Italian literature; material philology, codicology, and paleography; textual criticism; Old Occitan, classical and medieval Latin literary traditions in relation to the Italian literature of the origins; the book in the Renaissance; Counter-Reformation, Inquisition, and censorship; lyric poetry in the sixteenth century.

Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio.

Selected publications

Books

• Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange: Authorship, Manuscript Culture, and the Making of the ‘Vita Nova’ – New York, NY: Fordham University Press (2016).
• Petrarch and His Legacies. Co-edited with Ernesto Livorni. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2021).
• Interpretation and Visual Poetics in Medieval and Early Modern Texts. Essays in Honor of H. Wayne Storey. Co-edited with Beatrice Arduini and Isabella Magni. Leiden, Boston: Brill (2021).
• Le opere di Boccaccio tra filologia ed ermeneutica. Documenti, interpretazioni, risposte. Co-edited with Simone Marchesi. Special issue of La rivista tardogotica e quattrocentesca, vol. IV (2022).
• Le opere di Boccaccio tra filologia ed ermeneutica. Documenti, interpretazioni, risposte. Co-edited with Simone Marchesi. Special issue of La rivista tardogotica e quattrocentesca, vol. V (2023).

Articles

• Inferno XVIII. In Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia. Inferno, ed. by Marco Veglia and Angelo M. Mangini, Milan, Feltrinelli, 2026, pp. 543-561.
• Inferno XIX. In Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia. Inferno, ed. by Marco Veglia and Angelo M. Mangini, Milan, Feltrinelli, 2026, pp. 563-581.
• “Dante dalla giovinezza all’esilio: la Vita nova e il Convivio, i loro disegni ideologici, materiali e culturali.” Co-authored with Beatrice Arduini, in Dante e il prosimetro. Dalla Vita nova al Convivio. Special issue of Quaderni di Gargnano. XIX Convegno internazionale di Letteratura italiana “Gennaro Barbarisi,” Milano 2022, pp. 153-178.
• “Avarice is the Most Dangerous Sin: ‘La maladetta lupa’ in Dante’s Commedia.”In Annali d’italianistica 39, 2021, pp. 131-148.
• “Biscioni’s Dante.” Co-authored with Beatrice Arduini. In Textual Cultures 14.2, 2021, pp. 85-97.
• “Ed elli a me: “Questo misero modo / tegnon l’anime triste di coloro / che visser sanza ’nfamia e sanza lodo. (Inferno, III, v. 36).” In Citar Dante. Espressioni dantesche nell’italiano di oggi, ed. by Irene Chirico and Marco Galdi. ETPbooks, Saggi e Critici 11, Athens, 2021, pp. 46-47.
• “Textual Authority in the Vita Nova’s Nineteenth-Century Editions.” In Romanic Review 112:2, 2021, pp. 24-38.
• “The Trespiano Fragment of the Vita Nova (Ca).” in Interpretation and Visual Poetics in Early Modern Texts. Essays in Honor of H. Wayne Storey, ed. by Beatrice Arduini, Isabella Magni, Jelena Todorović. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021, pp. 73-83.
• L’eresia e gli eretici dell’oltretomba dantesco.” In La rivista di studi danteschi internazionali I, Rome, 2020, pp. 79-81.
• “La Vita Nova di Dante e il libro latino medievale.” In Letteratura italiana antica XXI, Rome, 2020, pp. 111-121.
• “In lingua d’oco: dalle chartae dei trovatori alla scrivania di Dante.” In Studj romanzi. Nuova serie. XIV, 2018, pp. 197-217.
• “Boccaccio the Author in the ‘Cornice’ of the Decameron” (in progress).
• “Revisiting the Trespiano Fragment” (in progress).
• “How to Satisfy the Desire of the Author: the Case of Giovanni Boccaccio.” In Medioevo letterario d’Italia (forthcoming).
• “Guido Cavalcanti in Boccaccio’s Argomenti.” In Heliotropia 11.1-2 (2014), pp. 1-15.
• “Who Read the Vita Nova in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century?” In Dante Studies CXXXI, pp. 197-218.
• “The Tale of Fra Puccio.” In Lectura Boccaccii, Day Three, ed. by Pier Massimo Forni and Francesco Ciabattoni, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2014, pp. 68-89.
• “‘Un’operetta del famosissimo Poeta, e Teologo Dante Allighieri’: the editio princeps of the Vita Nova.” In Studi danteschi 77 (2012), Florence, pp. 293-310.
• “Nota sulla Vita Nova di Giovanni Boccaccio.” In Boccaccio in America. Selected Proceedings of the 2010 International Boccaccio Conference at The University of Massachusetts Amherst, ed. by Michael Papio and Elsa Filosa, Ravenna, Longo, 2011, pp. 105-112.