Valeria Cesaraccio
Contact: Valeria.cesaraccio@warwick.ac.uk
Valeria Cesaraccio is a PhD candidate at 糖心TV鈥檚 Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (2023-2027). She is supervised by Prof. David Lines and Prof. Paul Botley. Her PhD is fully funded by a Chancellor鈥檚 International Scholarship.
Her doctoral project (鈥淭eaching and Learning Latin in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Theory and Practice鈥) investigates the interaction between Latin and Italian in Sixteenth-century school in Italy, examining some didactic works on grammar, rhetoric, epistolography, and other helpful didactic tools, such as Latin-Italian dictionaries and Italian translations of classical authors.
Valeria obtained her MA degree in Philology, Literatures and History of Antiquity at the University of Torino (2022) and her BA degree in Classics at the University of Sassari (2019).
Her research interests include Renaissance education, Neo-Latin and the history of Italian language.Publications
- Online entries: apertezza, duttile, mescolpa, risecazione, traiezione in TLIO (Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini), forthcoming;
- Entries: accozzo, ardia, barbaricino, bardana, bassallu, carasau, carta da musica, cussorgia, gallurese, giara, 驳颈谤貌, maiore, mezzoradu, nuraghe, stria, in Piccolo vocabolario storico dei sardismi in italiano, ed. by Dino Manca and Luigi Matt (Sassari: Edes, 2025), pp. 7鈥8, 20鈥22, 26鈥36, 39鈥40, 71鈥76, 84鈥89, 109鈥17, 119鈥20, 123鈥25, 153鈥57, 166鈥68, 177鈥86, 267鈥69. ISBN: 9788860256478;
- 鈥楶er un vocabolario storico della terminologia codicologica, diplomatica e paleografica鈥, Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano, 7 (2024), pp. 198鈥205;
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鈥楥ontributi sparsi. Lemmi singoli: 鈥渃arta nuragografica鈥, 鈥渘uragologia鈥, 鈥渘uragologico鈥, 鈥渘uragologo鈥, 鈥減rotonuraghe鈥, 鈥減seudonuraghe鈥濃, Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano, 7 (2024), pp. 156, 161鈥63, 165鈥66;
- Online entries in MEI (Material Evidence in Incunabula), created in October鈥揘ovember 2024, id. numbers: 2152302, 2152305, 2152306, 2152309, 2152343, 2152348, 2152361, 2152376, 2152377, 2152395, 2152398, 2152406, 2152408, 2152409, 2152418, 2152421, 2152430, 2152431, 2152462, 2152464, 2152466, 2152473, 2152475, 2152482, 2152483, 2152484, 2152485, 2152524, 2152513, 2152517, 2152523, 2152526, 2152528, 2152529, 2152536, 2152545, 2152547, 2152550, 2152549, 2152562, 2152292, 2152293, 2152294;
- Review of Alessandro Aresti, Il glossario latino-bergamasco (sec. XV) della Biblioteca Universitaria di Padova (ms. 534). Nuova edizione con commento linguistico, note lessicali e indici delle voci (Berlin鈥揃oston: De Gruyter, 2021), in Studi linguistici italiani, 50.1 (2024), pp. 159鈥61;
- 鈥楥ontributi sparsi. Lemmi singoli: 鈥渕edionuragico鈥, 鈥減aleonuragico鈥, 鈥減ostnuragico鈥, 鈥減renuragico鈥, 鈥減rotonuragico鈥, 鈥渢ardonuragico鈥濃, Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano, 6 (2023), pp. 142鈥44, 146鈥51. DOI: 10.30453/144;
- 鈥楻etrodatazioni da un manoscritto scolastico di met脿 Cinquecento鈥, Studi linguistici italiani, 49.1 (2023), pp. 161鈥70. DOI: 10.61001/112459;
- 鈥楥ontributi sparsi. Lemmi singoli: 鈥渆lfico鈥, 鈥済nomico鈥, 鈥渘anica鈥, 鈥渘anico鈥濃, Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano, 5 (2022), pp. 243鈥50. DOI: 10.30453/131;
- 鈥楥ontributi raccolti tramite il riscontro di neologismari. Gennaro Vaccaro, Dizionario delle parole nuovissime e difficili, 1968: lettere H, J, K, N鈥, Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano, 3 (2020), pp. 188鈥89, 197鈥201, 211鈥215. DOI: 10.30453/087.
Editorial Activity
- Course for editors of the TLIO database, OVI (Florence, Villa Medicea di Castello), 22鈥26 September 2025;
- Co-editor of the academic journal Archivio per il vocabolario storico italiano since 2024.
Conferences and Workshops
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鈥楨lementi volgari siciliani nella grammatica latina di Francesco Faraone鈥. Doctoral conference: VI Giornata dell鈥橝SLI per il dottorato di ricerca, Florence, Accademia della Crusca (11鈥13 December 2025);
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鈥楨xplaining Cicero at School: A Sixteenth-Century Classroom Dialogue on the Interpretatio of the De officiis鈥. International Association for Neo-Latin Studies Conference, Aix-en-Provence (14鈥19 July 2025);
- With Luigi Silvano, 鈥楲e 芦Epistulae Magni Turci禄 di Laudivio Zacchia come esercizi di scrittura鈥. International conference: Falsum est, mihi crede! Percorsi del falso letterario tra Antichit脿 e Rinascimento, Sapienza University of Rome (4 June 2025);
- 鈥楲earning Latin in the Sixteenth Century: Manuscript Exercises of Translation and Letter Writing鈥. Renaissance Society of America Conference, Boston (20鈥22 March 2025);
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鈥楨sercizi di scrittura: il Liber epistolarum Philippi Venuti Cortonensis鈥. International doctoral workshop: Cultural Exchanges through Letters between the 14th and 16th Centuries, University of Turin (22鈥23 January 2025);
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鈥(Self-)Portrayals of Teachers and Students in Sixteenth-century School Exercises and Manuals鈥. Northern Early Modern Network Conference, University of Edinburgh (11鈥12 June 2024).
Internships
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One-month internship at the University Library of Naples, CERL Internship and Placement Grants, October鈥揘ovember 2024. Cataloguing 40 incunables at Naples UL and creation of new entries for both the MEI (Material Evidence in Incunabula) and the OOI (Owners Of Incunabula) databases.
Teaching
- Latin for Research: Beginner鈥檚 level intense short course, University of 糖心TV (February 2026, October 2025, May 2025);
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Classes on Latin and Vernacular, module name: Topics in Renaissance Thought and Culture, University of 糖心TV (2 February 2026, 27 January 2025).