Roberta Antognini

Roberta Antognini is originally from Canton Ticino in Switzerland, where she currently resides, and has a Laurea in the history of Italian language from the Università Cattolica di Milano, Italy, and a PhD in Italian literature from New York University. She is Associate Professor Emerita of Italian Studies at Vassar College, where she taught for over twenty years, and a member of the Committee of the Fondazione Bassani. Her research interests lie in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and twentieth...See more

Roberta Antognini is originally from Canton Ticino in Switzerland, where she currently resides, and has a Laurea in the history of Italian language from the Università Cattolica di Milano, Italy, and a PhD in Italian literature from New York University. She is Associate Professor Emerita of Italian Studies at Vassar College, where she taught for over twenty years, and a member of the Committee of the Fondazione Bassani. Her research interests lie in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and twentieth-century Italian literature, and literary translation. She is the author of a monograph on Petrarch's letters, Il progetto autobiografico delle Familiares di Petrarca (LED, 2008), and co-editor of the collection of essays Poscritto a Giorgio Bassani (LED, 2012). In collaboration with Deborah Woodard, she has translated into English Amelia Rosselli's collections Hospital Series (New Directions, 2015) and Obtuse Diary (Entre Ríos Books, 2018). After retiring she has continued to read and write and, above all, translate poetry. Presently she is co-translating with Deborah Woodard another collection by Amelia Rosselli, Documento ( Document ), and with Peter Robinson Giorgio Bassani's poems, In rima e senza ( In Rhyme And Without ) (Agincourt Press, forthcoming 2023). See less