Olga Pugliese

Professor emeritus Olga Zorzi Pugliese (University of Toronto) is a former Chair of the Department of Italian Studies (1997-2002), Director of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (2005-09), President of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies (2005-08), and the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (2008). Her book-length publications on the Renaissance include an edition of Valla’s Donazione di Costantino (Milan: Rizzoli, 1994 [4th ed 2010]), monographs titled Il discorso labirintico del dialogo rinascimentale (Roma: Bulzoni, 1995), Castiglione’s ‘Il libro del cortegiano’: A Classic in the Making (Napoli: ESI, 2008), and in 2012 a 784-page digital transcription of the Cortegiano manuscripts: (http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32401.