The Young Dante

Maria Luisa Ardizzone is Professor of Italian Literature at New York University. She studied medieval palaeography, literature, and history at the University of Palermo, Italy and 20th century literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. Her principal areas of interest are the Middle Ages, poetry and poetics, rhetoric, intellectual history, medieval philosophy, politics, science, and 20th century poetry. Her publications include Reading as the Angels Read: Speculation and Politics in Dante’s Banquet (2016); Dante: il paradigma intellettuale. Un’inventio degli anni fiorentini (2011); Guido Cavalcanti: The Other Middle Ages (2002); Ezra Pound, Machine Art and Other Writings: The Lost Thought of the Italian Years (1996); and Ezra Pound e la scienza. Scritti inediti o rari (1987), among others.