Angelo Mazzocco

Professor Emeritus of Italian and Spanish   

Specialization
Medieval and Renaissance culture with emphasis on Dante, antiquarianism, historical linguistics, and Renaissance humanism

Professor Angelo Mazzocco specializes in medieval and Renaissance culture with emphasis on Dante, antiquarianism, historical linguistics, and Renaissance humanism.  He has also worked on Spanish historical linguistics and on the relationship between Italian and Spanish humanism. He has delivered lectures, seminars and keynote addresses to organizations and institutions in the United States and Europe including Yale, Columbia, Harvard, The Institute for the Classical Tradition at Boston University, the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” the University of Venice, the Istituto storico per il medio evo in Rome, and the University of Pisa. 

Mazzocco’s major publications include Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists: Studies of Language and Intellectual History in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (1993), Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism [ed.] (2006), and his current book-in-progress, Biondo Flavio and Quattrocento Thought.  In addition, Mazzocco has reviewed manuscripts for professional journals and university presses and has contributed numerous chapters to international journals and volumes including the recently published “Un’idea politica italiana in Petrarca?” in Petrarca politico, (Rome, 2006), “Kristeller and the Italian Vernacular,” in Kristeller Reconsidered: Essays on His Life and Scholarship, (New York, 2006), and “Il rapporto tra gli umanisti italiani e gli umanisti spagnoli al tempo di Alessandro VI: il caso di Antonio de Nebrija,” in Principato ecclesiastico e riuso dei classici: Gli umanisti e Alessandro VI  (Rome, 2002).

Throughout his career, Mazzocco has played an active role in professional organizations serving as member of the Delegate Assembly and chair of the Division on Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature of the Modern Language Association of America, member of the council of the Dante Society of America, discipline representative for Italian literature and member of the Nominating Committee to the Renaissance Society of America, and a member of the editorial / editorial advisory boards of Renaissance Quarterly, Reportorium Pomponianum, Roma nel Rinascimento and the Rivista di Studi Italiani.  He is a member of the board of the Arcadia Players.
   
Most recently (fall 2006) Mazzocco was Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He has also been a Fellow in Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University, Bloomington. He twice was awarded research grants for study in Venice by the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation, has won grants for study at the Vatican Library in Rome, and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies, and Pew Charitable Trusts as well as numerous Faculty Grants from Mount Holyoke College.

News Links

"MHC's Mazzocco: To Rome and Back," Office of Communications, February 6, 2007 

"Sabbatical Spans Middle Ages and Renaissance," College Street Journal, March 2, 2001 

"New Course on the Italian Renaissance Sees Period Whole; Renews Its Meaning," College Street Journal, April 17, 1998

"Math Across the Curriculum," Mount Holyoke College