PIMSPontifical Institute
of
Mediaeval Studies

Dr. Antonio Ricci is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University. His research interests focus on the history of the book with particular attention to reading in the medieval and early modern periods and print culture in Renaissance Italy. He is editing The Orlando Furioso from Print to Digital: Five Centuries of Reading Ariosto. As a Visiting Scholar with the status of Visiting Fellow of the Institute, Dr. Ricci will be working on “Representations of Reading in Medieval and Renaissance Italy,” which deals with visual and textual depictions of readers in the 14^th and 15^th centuries.