User:Domenico Lovascio

Domenico Lovascio holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Genoa. He received the AIA/Carocci Dissertation Prize 2014 awarded by the Italian Association of English Studies to the best PhD thesis in the field in Italy in 2012–13. He has published a monograph on the reception of the figure of Julius Caesar in early modern English drama titled Un nome, mille volti: Giulio Cesare nel teatro inglese della prima età moderna (Rome, 2015) and the first English–Italian edition of Ben Jonson’s Catiline His Conspiracy (Genoa, 2011), as well as articles in English Literary Renaissance, The Ben Jonson Journal, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Early Modern Literary Studies and Notes and Queries. He is currently editing Thomas Kyd's The Housholders Philosophie for The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd, gen. ed. Sir Brian Vickers, co-editing (with Lisa Hopkins) a special issue of Textus: English Studies in Italy on The Uses of Rome in English Renaissance Drama, as well as contributing the 'State of the Art' chapter to the Arden Early Modern Drama Guide on William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.