Eliana Giovanna Elsa CREAZZO

Eliana Creazzo is Associate Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Catania - SC 10 / E1 Middle Latin and Roman Philologies and Literatures. She has mainly dealt with medieval French literature. In a comparative perspective - an enlarged, Eurasian comparativism - she investigated the forms of the narrative frame, with particular reference to Barlaam and Josaphat, and the paths of the literary imagination linked to Sicily of the 11th-13th centuries, with insights on the texts related to the Legend of Arthur nell'Etna. She then directed his studies towards late Arthurian production - see the Italian analysis and translation work of Le Chevalier du Papegau -, paying attention to aspects related to intertextuality, the chronotopic dimension and reception. She has also initiated research on the Roman d’Alexandre, the system of emotions in Floriant et Florete, and the role of the horse in myth and literature. Her primary research currently focuses on medieval female mysticism, especially in Italy, with ongoing work editing the Italian translations of Angela da Foligno's Liber, and with comparative studies aimed at exploring, within the context of contemporary readability, women's visionary gaze, through words and images. This research has opened methodological and hermeneutical insights in the direction of literary ecology.