Simone Marchesi *02 COM
Teacher, Scholar, Translator
Professor of French and Italian, Princeton University
Simone Marchesi is a teacher and scholar of medieval Italian literature. Trained in Italy (University of Pisa) and the United States (University of Notre Dame, Princeton), he has worked in the Department of French and Italian at Princeton for more than two decades, often teaching in the first-year seminar program and the humanities sequence. His research focuses on the creative interpretation of classical Latin texts offered by vernacular writers of the late Middle Ages. Marchesi has published monographs on Dante, Boccaccio and European literature, edited collections of essays, and curated translations and illustrated editions of “The Divine Comedy.” He has served one term as president of the American Boccaccio Association and directed the electronic bulletin of the Dante Society of America for more than a decade. His daughter, Virginia, is a proud member of the Great Class of 2030.