Sebastiana Nobili studied Classical and Medieval Literature at the
University of Bologna, and graduated in 1993 with a dissertation on
Boccaccio's Corbaccio. In
1997 she had her PhD in Literature Theory (University of Bergamo),
with a dissertation on Luigi Pirandello's theatre and narrative;
then she was the recipient of a post-doctoral fellowship in
Medieval Literature, for a project on Salimbene da Parma, at the
Department of Italian (University of Bologna); in 2002 she
published the complete edition of Salimbene's latin Chronicle, with an essay of
introduction, a translation and a commentary (Roma, Istituto
Poligrafico dello Stato).
In the same year, she obtained the academic position of Research
Associate in Italian Literature at the Faculty of Cultural
Heritage's Conservation (University of Bologna, seat of Ravenna);
from 2014 she is Associate Professor in Italian
Literature.
Her research ranges from the italian literature of the Middle Age
to the late modernity (XIVth and XXth centuries): she wrote
her first book,
Il lavoro della scrittura. Analisi e retorica del
testo
(Milano, Sansoni, 1999), about rhetoric and the art of writing in
modern italian novel, then
she dedicated two books to Pirandello (Pirandello: Guida al “Fu Mattia Pascal”
, Roma, Carocci, 2004 e «La
materia del sogno». Pirandello tra racconto e visione, Pisa,
Giardini, 2007). She published several articles and essays on
Boccaccio's Decameron and
Genealogia deorum
gentilium (Inizi difficili. La struttura retorica della
Genealogia, 2011;
"Tu non pensavi ch'io loico fossi". Boccaccio e l'eredità
della Scolastica, 2011; La consolazione della letteratura:
una proposta per il Decameron, 2013;
Il senso delle lacrime. Una teoria del pianto nel
Decameron
, 2013, La Genealogia dalla Romagna al Parnaso. Sugli
alberi genealogici del manoscritto autografo, 2015). In 2014, she wrote a book on Giovanni
Boccaccio, with an anthology of his complete works (Milano,
Unicopli); in 2017, she published the book La consolazione della letteratura. Un itinerario fra Dante e Boccaccio (Ravenna, Longo). She's now going to publish a new edition of the Genealogia deorum gentilium (Milano, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla) that will be printed in 2022.
