PhD in CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND ITS RECEPTION: ARCHAEOLOGY,
PHILOLOGY, HISTORY

Associate professor of Medieval Latin literature (SSD FLMR-01/A) at the University of Rome «Tor Vergata», Silvia Nocentini teaches Medieval Latin literature and (in English) Western Iconography and the Cult of Saints, a course for which she won the Blended Learning Award (B.L.A.) for innovative teaching in English as the Best blended course in the field of « Social Sciences and Humanities,» awarded in 2021 by the Erasmus+ Tor Vergata - NOVA university Lisbon -Universidad Autónoma de Madrid consortium.

She is, since 2015, the director of the bibliographic repertoire named C.A.L.M.A. (Compendium auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi), together with Michael Lapidge (Cambridge) and Francesco Santi (Bologna).

She is the editorial secretary of the international scientific journal «Hagiographica»; a member of the governing board of the Ezio Franceschini Foundation (F.E.F., Florence); an editorial director of the journal «Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa»; a member of the scientific committee of the journal «Memorie domenicane»; and member of the scientific committee of CISC, the International Center for Catherinian Studies in Rome.

She has written articles and books for leading academic publishers and journals and participated in international research projects, including Biblioteca Agiografica Italiana (BAI). Repertorio di testi e manoscritti, secoli XIII-XV, directed by Jacques Dalarun (Ecole française de Rome) e Lino Leonardi (Fondazione Ezio Franceschini), and The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden: Women, Politics, and Reform in Renaissance Italy (2018-2021), directed by Unn Falkeid (Università di Oslo).

Her research field is medieval Latin literature, particularly hagiography, both from a philological and historical perspective, with particular attention to Dominican literature and female mysticism. She has published numerous studies on these topics.

She dedicated a significant part of her research activity to the figure of Catherine of Siena. The critical edition of Catherine's Life (Legenda maior) involved a broader reflection on Dominican scriptoria and the diffusion channels of hagiography in Europe between the late Middle Ages and the early modern age. She also addressed other aspects of Catherine's and her circle's literary production, particularly the Latin translations of her mystical work, the so-called Dialogue.

Topics such as the circulation of manuscripts and the relationships between the various actors involved in transmitting hagiographic works are central to her research. Her recent projects range from the publication of a critical edition of the entire hagiographic dossier on San Miniato (8th-15th c.) to the study of the hagiography concerning Bridget of Sweden (14th c.) and Clare of Assisi (13th c.).