Personal Statement

Humberto is a PhD candidate in Italian at New York University, where he is writing a dissertation entitled “The Unrepentant Poet: The Penitential Thread of Petrarch's 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta'” under the direction of Virginia Cox. He specializes in medieval Italian literature, particularly Dante’s Commedia and Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, and in the Italian lyric from its origins in the Occitan tradition to its proliferation during the 16th century. He has given papers on Dante and Bo ...

Humberto G. Subjects

Spanish - French - Italian - Latin