Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World

Gisella Governi

Doctoral Student in Italian Studies
Research Interests “Comedy” of Dante Alighieri, Renaissance’s Italian Authors

Biography

Gisella holds a BA from the University of Florence and an MA in Italian Studies from the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on the connection between Dante's Comedy and the liturgical rituals of lay confraternities and penances in the Late Middle Ages.