Research groups

The MAMBRINO PROJECT http://www.mambrino.it/ deals with the continuations and translations of the Spanish chivalric novel in 16th century Italy. It is a research conducted with the contribution of undergraduates and graduate students from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. The corpus includes about fifty Italian prose novels, the result of translation or imitation of Castilian libros de caballerías, published in Venice around the mid-sixteenth century by publishers such as Michele Tramezzino and Francesco Portonari. Motivated by the strong growth of the publishing market, authors such as Mambrino Roseo and Pietro Lauro soon passed from translation-adaptation to the invention of their own pages with originality. After the publication of the "Repertorio of Italian continuations to the Spanish chivalric novels, Cycle of Amadis di Gaula" is in preparation of the homologous volume relating to the continuations of the Palmerin de Olivia. The Mambrino Project publishes since 2013 the scientific journal "HISTORIAS FINGIDAS" classified by ANVUR in band A and annually organizes a seminar of the same title. http://historiasfingidas.dlls.univr.it/index.php/hf/index Since 2018 the Mambrino Project has signed a collaboration agreement with the European project READ Transkribus for research on character recognition in ancient books https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/.