Lorenzo AMATO

Renaissance Humanism, Florentine Poetry, History of the Book, Relationship between Literature and the Arts, Cultural Exchanges between Italy and Other Cultures (including Finnish, Japanese, and Persian), Italian Literary and Philosophical Traditions in Japanese Art, Late Renaissance and Early Modern Sensitivity.

Research Themes:I started my research career by studying the Latin poem Theotocon by Dominican friar Domenico da Corella, which is rich in information on Renaissance Florentine art. This led to studies of Latin Renaissance literature, including other works by Corella, Cristoforo Landino, Ugolino Verino, and, in connection to my studies on the history of the book, the Mirabilia urbis Romae and the description of Rome by Francesco Albertini. I have also investigated the relationship between art and literature, focusing on documents related to Beato Angelico and Leon Battista Alberti. More recently, I have explored Italian literary and philosophical traditions in relation to Japanese art, including studies on Dante in Japanese painting and the notion of ruins and utopia in modern Japanese culture. Additionally, I study cultural exchanges between Italy and other cultures, including Finnish, Japanese, and Persian.

My main research, which is currently financed by the JSPS, focuses on late 16th-century Florentine poetry, particularly the madrigal tradition, from Giovan Battista Strozzi the Elder to Giovan Battista Strozzi the Younger, the Accademia degli Alterati, and other authors who mark the transition between the late Renaissance and early modern periods, such as Michelangelo Serafini, Mario Colonna, Torquato Tasso, and Giovan Battista Vecchietti. I am completing the edition of the poetic anthology of the Accademici Alterati and the critical edition of all the poems of Giovan Battista Strozzi.

Recent Research Achievements:

• Domenico di Giovanni da Corella, Theotocon , edizione critica, introduzione e apparati a cura di Lorenzo Amato, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2012, pp. XXVIII, 298, ISBN 978-88-6372-262-8
• L. Amato – L. Dal Pozzo – K. Brunetto, Dizionario Hoepli finlandese. Finlandese-italiano, italiano-finlandese , Milano, Hoepli, 2016, pp. 672, ISBN 978-88-2036-794-7.
• L. Amato, La tradizione manoscritta delle Rime di Giovan Battista Strozzi il Vecchio: censimento dei testimoni e incipitario delle poesie. Per l'edizione critica , Firenze, Polistampa, 2019, pp. 352, ISBN 978-88-596-2011-2.
• L. Amato, La poesia dell'Accademia degli Alterati nel codice Vat. Lat. 8858: edizione critica , Gent, Lysa Publishers, 2025 (upcoming).
• Mario Colonna, I “Quattordici madrigali sopra una Pietra” del ms. BNCF Magl. VII 1388: edizione critica e commento , in «Medioevo e Rinascimento», n.s. 30 (2019), pp. 285-317.
• Le ‘Pietre’ di Michelangelo Serafini: edizione critica e commento , in «Medioevo e Rinascimento», n.s. 31 (2020), pp. 185-230.

Extracurricular activities:

• Director of the Italian section of the department's bulletin, University of Tokyo