Giulia Gaimari

Giulia Gaimari is Assistant Professor of Dante and Italian Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto and is affiliated with the Book and Media Studies Program at St. Michael's College. Currently devoted to exploring Dante Alighieri’s reuses of Cicero’s Laelius de Amicitia, her research interests encompass the reception of classical moral philosophy within late medieval Italy and Dante’s oeuvre, the lively interactions between medieval encyclopaedic culture, civic rhetoric, and vernacular literature, and the intertwining of these areas within the history of emotions in the medieval period. Her first monograph Per amore di giustizia. Dante fra diritto, politica e teologia has been published in 2022 by Angelo Longo Editore. Her ongoing research includes an investigation into the interconnectedness between medieval conceptions of tolerance and the status of non-Christians in Dante’s Commedia, with a particular focus on Limbo, as well as a co-directed project on the role of anxiety in the Italian lyric tradition from the Middle Ages up to the contemporary period (with Dr. Roberto Binetti).