Pamela Gennari

I earned my Doctorate in 2010 from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where I hold the status of “cultore della materia” (freelance adjunct scholar). In 2004 I completed my BA in Modern and Contemporary Western Languages and Literatures with a thesis on French medieval chansons de geste. In my graduate studies, I specialized in Romance philology and Old French, and compiled a critical edition of Dialogues de Saint Grégoire le Grand, a patristic French-Italian text from the mid-thirteenth century. I defended my MA thesis on the Dialogues in 2006. My PhD project was focused on the fifteenth-century tradition of Marco Polo’s Devisement dou monde and is still the main topic of my actual researches: in fact, its commented critical edition of the unpublished French-Venetian edition is currently in progress for publication due within 2018/2019. In addition to several  collaborations with the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – especially within the framework of a project on the digital cataloguing of handwritten manuscripts of Marco Polo’s Milione – I have  worked as a freelance consultant since 2010. My research projects at the Venice State Archive included the identification and cataloguing of Venetian testamentary documents published between the thirteenth and fifteenth century (especially in the parish of San Giovanni Grisostomo) and the historical-bibliographical reconstruction of the Scuola del Cristo (in the parish of San Marcuola). I also worked  worked as a contributing writer for art and culture magazines and as a freelance translator from French and English into Italian for companies and privates.