Anna Gabriella Chisena

Anna G. Chisena works as a postdoctoral research fellow on the 'Books of Science: Vernacular Mathematics and Medicine Books in Fourteenth-Century Italy' (PRIN 2022). From 2018 to 2021, she was an associate fellow at the L. Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck, where she developed a digital edition of Basinio da Parma's Hesperis. She was an F. Yates short-term fellow at the Warburg Institute in London in 2016, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel in 2018. She has published the first critical edition of Basinio da Parma’s Astronomicon libri, complete with translation and commentary (Florence, SISMEL, 2024), as well as the book Le prime stelle di Dante: astronomia e astrologia tra Vita Nova e Convivio (Ravenna, Longo, 2024). The latter was awarded the “Pastore Stocchi” Prize for the best critical work of 2023–24. She was awarded the “Pier delle Vigne” prize for her research in Medieval Studies by the University of Pisa and the Comune of Pontremoli (2025). Her research interests include Dante studies, humanistic literature, Neo-Latin poetry, and vernacular scientific texts.