Iole M C Scamuzzi

Iole Scamuzzi is Researcher and Teacher in Spanish literature in the University of Turin. She obtained her Doctorate in the same University in 2008, under the tutorship of Prof. Aldo Ruffinatto. Since 2004, she has been working on the relationship between Literature and Music, above all in the Spanish and Italian field, her works on the presence Don Quixote in the Italian opera reaching international spreading and obtaining excellent reviews. She specialized in Philology as well, studying the knowledge of Spanish Literature by the Baroque writer Francesco Bracciolini, and more widely on the
relationship between Spanish and Italian Literature from the early Renaissance to the Golden Century. She published papers of the interaction between Lope de Vega and Giambattista Marino, as well as on the circulation of Carlo Goldoni's musical plays in Spain and Latin America. She was awarded post graduate fellowships in the University of Turin (2009-2011) and in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2011-2012). She cooperates on various levels with several international research groups: “Teatresit”, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, P.I. Prof. Rossend Arquès (coordinator of the Musicology section); “El Quijote en la cultura Europea: mito e interpretación”, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, P.I. Prof. Begoña Lolo (administrative coordinator); “Italian Novellieri and their influence in Renaissance and Baroque European Culture: Editions, Translations, Adaptations”: Università di Torino, P.I. Prof. Guillermo Carrascón (member). Since 2009 she participates in international congresses sponsored by the main ssociations of scholars in Spanish and Musicology.
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