10/16/2025
RLL's Dr. Marco Faini on “Marvelous Monsters: Crime, Cheap Print, and the Construction of Otherness in Early Modern Italy (XVI-XVIII centuries)” tomorrow, October 17 at 4pm! (Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and streaming)
🎤 Join us for Scholars@Hallwalls! Complimentary wine and light fare are served for a brief, pre-talk mingling session. Free and public.
Fri., Oct. 17 at 4 p.m.
Hallwalls Cinema
Free!
Scholars@Hallwalls: Marco Faini on “Marvelous Monsters: Crime, Cheap Print, and the Construction of Otherness in Early Modern Italy (XVI-XVIII centuries)”
Marco Faini will explore some of the ‘atrocious,’ ‘horrendous,’ and ‘unfortunate’ stories of crime disseminated through ephemeral print in early modern Italy. Moving beyond their alleged documentary value, he will shed light on the intricate dynamics at play in these narratives.
Marco Faini is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). His research interests include early modern crime and its narratives, sexuality and theology, biblical epic, macaronic and mock-heroic poetry, devotional literature, cheap-print and popular culture. A former Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow at the Universities of Toronto and Venice, he has worked at the Universities of Cambridge, Urbino, and Bergamo; he has held fellowships at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, at the Research Center of the University of Bucharest, Villa I Tatti, and Harvard University’s Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
