Biography

Dott. Ling. Lett. summa cum laude (Universita`degli Studi di Firenze);  CertEd (C&G); D.Phil in Renaissance Studies  (University of Sussex)

Italian Renaissance Literature and Art during the Reformation: the interrelationship of poetry, culture and religion in Renaissance Italy.

Conference papers

• 2013, 'Boccaccio a Roma. Suggestioni boccacciane ne Gli Straccioni di Annibal Caro', Locating Boccaccio in 2013, 10-12 July 2013, University of Manchester
• 2012, ‘The Accademia della Virtù and Religious Dissent’, The Italian Academies 1525-1700: the first intellectual networks of Early Modern Europe,17-18 September 2012, The British Library, London
• 2011, ‘La ricezione della poesia di Michelangelo in Italia nella prima metà del Cinquecento’, Society for Italian Studies International Conference, 6-9 July 2011, St Andrews University
• 2010, ‘Il Giudizio Universale di Michelangelo: un credo luterano?’, Society for Italian Studies Interim Conference, 16-17 April 2010, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venezia
• 2009, ‘Michelangelo's poetry: a religious journey’, Da Dante al Duemila: Biennial Conference of the Society for Italian Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
•  2008, ‘A plausible reading of Michelangelo's frescoes of the Pauline Chapel’, Society for Renaissance Studies Third International Conference, Trinity College, Dublin

Italian Culture:

year I. Q1060. Italy 1900-45

year II. R9025. Italy 1945 to date 

year IV. R3056. Italian Special Subject. Women's Voices in Italian Literature and Art

Italian Language:

year I: R 3040, R3041; R3042-R3043

year II: R1079, R3053; R3049, R3054

year IV: R3055. Italian Language 3

Student Consultation

Office Hours for Spring Semester 2013:

Tuesday 3-4 pm

Friday 4-5 pm.

Moroncini, Ambra (2013) Michelangelo's Last Judgement: a Lutheran belief? In: Beyond Catholicism: heresy, mysticism and apocalypse in Italian culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. (Submitted)

Moroncini, Ambra (2012) Le rime spirituali di Michelangelo e gli affreschi della Cappella Paolina: cangiar sorte per sol poter divino. Chroniques Italiennes, 23 (2). pp. 1-17. ISSN 1634-0272

Moroncini, Ambra (2012) Reviewed work(s): The Perfect Genre: Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy. By Kristin Phillips-Court. Modern Language Review , 107 (2). pp. 632-634. ISSN 0026-7937

Moroncini, Ambra (2010) La poesia di Michelangelo: un cammino spirituale tra Neoplatonismo e Riforma. Italianist, 30 (3). pp. 352-373. ISSN 0261-4340

Moroncini, Ambra (2009) I disegni di Michelangelo per Vittoria Colonna e la poesia del Beneficio di Cristo. Italian Studies, 64 (1). pp. 38-55. ISSN 0075-1634