Nationality: Italian Legal Status: Permanent Resident Yale University Ph.D. candidate, (expected completion spring 2010)2005- Italian Language and Literature Dissertation: The Invention of the Enemy: War and Peace in the Italian Renaissance Advisor: Giuseppe Mazzotta University of Notre Dame M.A., Italian Studies 2003-2005 Master 's Thesis: Le Foglie Sparse del Mito di Dafne nel Canzoniere di Petrarca Advisor: Theodore J. Cachey University of Rome, La Sapienza 1995-2001 Laurea cum laude, Comparative Literature Thesis: La Fuga di Dafne Advisor: Piero Boitani