ENGLISH c.v. of Francesco Stella
Abstract
Francesco Stella, member of the Medieval Academy of America, Academia Europaea, Accademia Colombaria and Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (SISMEL) and Chair Gutenberg 2021, is full professor of Medieval Latin Literature at the University of Siena and head of the Center for Comparative Studies “I Deug-Su” (www.centroideugsu.unisi.it). Editor of the series Scrittori latini dell’Europa Medievale (awarded by the European Commission), he has been director or co-director of some national and international funded research projects such as ALIM (Achivio della latinità italiana del Medioevo), Corpus Rhyhtmorum Musicum, Eurasian Latin Archive, Classica Serica, RAMMSES (Realtà Aumentata del Medioevo Musicale a Siena e nel Senese), Hagiographica Coreana. His most recent books: Unconventional approaches to medieval Latin literature I The Carolingian Revolution II Digital philology and Quantitative Criticism (Brepols 2020), and Il testo e l’immagine: Fonti letterarie per l’arte medievale (Mondadori 2021). In 2020 he edited the proceedings of Global Latin I (SISMEL), in 2024 Medieval Latin Literatures in Europe and Beyond: a Millennium Heritage (together with L. Doležalová and D. Shanzer).
Curriculum vitae
Born in 1962, Francesco Stella is full professor of Medieval Latin Literature at the University of Siena, where he also teaches Digital Philology. From 2004 to 2010 he has been head of the Dept. of Classics and Cultural Heritage and director of the Center for Comparative Studies “I Deug-Su”. From 2008 to 2020 he has been director of the Master Program on Digital Edition of the University of Siena.
His main research fields have been on one side technique, edition and interpretation of the Christian and medieval Latin poetry from late Antiquity to Petrarch, on the other side comparative literature. Among the volumes he has written: La poesia carolingia latina a tema biblico (CISAM 1993); La poesia carolingia (texts and translations with commentary, Le Lettere 1995); Poesia e teologia I L’Occidente latino fra IV e VIII secolo (Jaca Book 2001), and, completing this, some chapters about the relationships between poetry and theology in Carolingian times and in the Scholastic and Humanistic Ages (Figure del Pensiero Medievale III and VI, Città Nuova 2010); the translation with commentary of Walahfrid Strabos' Visio Wettini (Pacini 2009), Einhard's Translatio Marcellini et Petri (Pacini 2009), Gesta Berengarii (Pacini 2009), Ysengrimus book I (Pacini 2009), Testo letterario e analisi digitale (Carocci 2018), the double volume Unconventional approaches to medieval Latin literature I The Carolingian Revolution II Digital philology and Quantitative Criticism (Brepols 2020), and Il testo e l’immagine: Fonti letterarie per l’arte medievale, (Mondadori Education 2021).
He coordinated the Italian version of the Legenda Aurea by Iacopo da Varazze (SISMEL 2007, together with G. Maggioni) and is chief editor of the digital and print edition Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum, vol. I Songs from non-liturgical sources (SISMEL 2007 and 2022, together with Sam Barrett ; 2022 updated website www.corimu.unisi.it) and Hagiographica Coreana (together with Ahn Jaewon, Pacini 2007, 2011, 2017). He also edited, among other, the proceedings La Scrittura infinita. Bibbia e poesia dal Medioevo al ‘900, 2 vols. (SISMEL 1999 and Olschki 2001); Poetry of Early Medieval Europe, (2 vols., SISME 2000 and 2003), Digital philology and medieval texts (with A. Ciula, Pacini 2007), The Mechanic Reader (with F. Ciotti, Pacini 2016), Global Latin (in « Itineraria » 19, SISMEL 2020) and, together with L. Doležalová and D. Shanzer, Medieval Latin Literatures in Europe and Beyond: a Millennium Heritage (2024).
He as been invited many times as speaker of conferences and lectures in Europe, Canada, USA, China and Korea and called for the assessment of projects or other selection procedures from France, Austria, United Kingdom, Hungary, Spain, USA, Belgium, Germany, Austria; he has been also visiting professor at the University Charles IV in Praha and at the University of Pécs in Hungary, and visiting scholar at Princeton University in 2011. He is editor since 1986 Semicerchio. Rivista di poesia comparata and editor of the series «Scrittori latini dell’Europa medievale» (Pacini Editore, Pisa).
In 2021 he was awarded the Gutenberg Chaire by the Gutenberg Circle of the University of Strasbourg, and the Translation Prize of the Italian Culture Ministry; in 2023 his Erasmus Blended Intensive Project Carolingian Literary Lab was awarded by the European Commission. In the same 2023 he was Chair of the AIUCD Conference “La memoria digitale” (Siena).
International and National research projects coordinated by F. Stella
-1996 European Ariane funded project Montale translated by poets and 1998 European Ariane funded project Self-Translation in European Poetry, both financed by the European Community.
- From 1998 to coordinated the European TMR funded project Poetry of Early Medieval Europe.
2003 coordinated the European Erasmus/IP project Intercultural Workshop on Medieval Poetry and Digital Resources.
- He directed 2007 and 2009 with P. Bourgain a Parigi the Italian-French Galileo project Atelier numérique sur les textes et les manuscrits médiévaux.
- He directed the international project Digital Philology and Medieval Texts (Interlink MIUR 2006-2010) with the universities of Salamanca, Paris, Burgos, Berlin.
- He coordinates the project Hagiographica Coreana financed 2007 by Korea Foundation di Seoul and 2010 ss. by the National University of Seoul.
- He coordinates the Siena unit of Digital Edition of Medieval manuscripts (DEMM) 2014-217, financed by the European Community (Erasmus-Key action ), and took part as expert in the COST action Medieval cultures on the web, (2013-2016), in the project Textométrie des sources historiques of the Ecole Française di Roma, in the project « Interfaces » of the Centre for Medieval Literature delle Università di Odense e York and in some projects of the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague.
-Coordinated the National project Digital philology of Medieval Latin Texts 2003-2005 and 2006-2008.
-2009-11 coordinated the research unit of the project Trivium 2009 on Artes dictaminis and letters-collections in XII century Italy.
- 2012 to 2017 he was National coordinator of ALIM (Archivio della Latinità Italiana del Medioevo).
- 2017-2020 he is coordinator of the Siena unit of the National research project ALIM.
- 2018-2020 he is responsible of the project ELA (Eurasian Latin Archive), funded by Regione Toscana, in cooperation with Seoul National University and some Japanese universities.
- 2020-2022 He is responsible of the project RAMMSES (Realtà Aumentata del Medioevo Musicale a Siena e nel Senese), sponsored by University of Siena, Regione Toscana, SISMEL, Aidilab, Biblioteca Comunale di Siena, Fondazione Montepaschi, Archivio di Stato di Siena.
- 2021 He has been awarded the Gutenberg Chair (Strasbourg) and directs a project about the relationship text/image in the Middle Ages at the University of Strasbourg.
- 2022-23 His Blended Intensive Project Carolingian Literary Lab has been financed by Erasmus+.
- 2023-25 The National project (PRIN) Classica Serica, whose Siena reserach unit he is coordinator, has been awarded and financed.
Scientific memberships
Director of the series Scrittori latini de Medioevo europeo for the European program Creative Culture 2007-2013 (Pacini Editore).
Advisory Board of the SISMEL (Società Internazionale di Studi sul Medioevo Latino), of "Medioevo Latino" and lector of the Clavis auctorum latinorum medii aevi.
Advisory Board of CISLAB (Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi sui Beni Librari e Archivistici, Univ. di Siena). Closed 2012.
Advisory Board of CISAM (Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo), Spoleto.
Advisory Board of Fondazione Franceschini, Florence.
Advisory Board of Fondazione Lorenzo Valla (Roma).
He has been vice-secretary of the Italian “Consulta Universitaria di Studi Latini”.
Member of the Scientific board of university series and academic journals, among them: "Mediaevalia & Humanistica" (U.S.A.), "Iacobus" (Spagna), « Reti medievali », « Studi Medievali », "Traditio e Renovatio" (Bergamo),"Classiques latins du Moyen Âge" (Paris), "Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library" (Harvard University, USA), “Fonti per la storia del medioevo” of ISIME (Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo), CSEL (Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum Wien), “Roma Sinica” (De Gruyter), “Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy” (Brepols).
Member of the Committee for "Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages" (inside the International Comparative Literature Association) 2009-2015.
He has taken part in international research project with LAMOP of Paris-Sorbonne, the Centre for Medieval Studies of Prague, INTERFACES project of the Centre for Medieval Literature at Odense, the European COST Action Medieval Cultures on the Web and other scholarly undertakings, and is currently involved in the research network GIRPAM (Groupe International de Recherche sur la Poésie Antique et Médiévale), in the project PoBLAM (Poésie Biblique Latine de l’Antiquité Tardive e du Moyen Âge), besides the projects he is coordinating (see above).
He has been is member of -International academy of humanities computing and digital humanities (Hamburg, closed) and is member of
-Academia Europaea (London),
-Accademia Colombaria (Firenze),
- Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (SISMEL).
- Unité de Recherche 4377 de l’Université de Strasbourg
- The Medieval Academy of America
Assessment (selection)
Member of FWO Review College 2023-25.
Remote reviewer of ERC projects.
Evaluator of projects for the national research agencies of Italy (Ministery of Reserch and single universities such as Milano Cattolica, Modena, Napoli etc.), Hungary, France, Germany, Swiss, Austria, Belgium etc.
President of Evaluation Team of Research Unity for the University of Liège.
Expert for the evaluation of candidates to professorships for the Universities of Wien, Princeton, Cambridge, Toronto, and some Italian academic competitions.
Current activities
As a project leader, F. Stella manages the digital library « Archivio della Latinità Italiana del medioevo » (ALIM), the Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum edition, the project Eurasian Latin Archive for the computing processing of the texual Latin corpora concerning the East Asia, the platform RAMMSES (Realtà aumentata del medioevo musicale a Siena e nel Senese), and the Siena unit of the funded National research project Classica Serica. He is also editing for de Gruyter with M. Cutino the proceedings of the conference Versus ad picturas (Strasbourg 2022). He is associated member of a research unit on Late-Antique and Medieval Poetry of the Strasbourg University (GIRPAM). He has been entrusted the national edition of Pacificus of Verona’s works and a new collection of Carolingian Poetry for the Fondazione Valla (Mondadori).