Riccardo Macchioro
Assistant Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies
Riccardo Macchioro is an assistant professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies. After pursuing his bachelor and master of arts at the University of Milan, Macchioro earned his PhD from a joint program between the University of Cassino and the International Society for Medieval Latin Studies in Florence. Prior to joining U of T, Macchioro held a teaching and research position at the University of Milan and a postdoctoral position at Radboud University Nijmegen.
Macchioro’s research deals with a broad variety of topics in medieval Latin literature and manuscript studies, spanning from the reception of patristics and Latin classics to Dante Alighieri's Latin languages; from Greek into Latin translations to universal chronicles. Interdisciplinarity is key to his approach, as he combines literary, paleographical and codicological methodologies with digital humanities applied to manuscript studies.
His research outputs have been published in several major journals. His most recent accomplishments include the ascription of an anonymous translation of Basil's Hexaemeron to Burgundio of Pisa (Filologia Mediolatina, 2024); the study of the impact of a lost Augustinian sermon collection on later manuscripts (Revue Bénédictine, 2023); and a €200,000 grant from the Italian Ministry of Research to study medieval universal Latin chronicles (2022).