Isabelle Boursier''s Book of Hours, a Dismembered Manuscript from Mary Benson''s Collection

About Carla Rossi

Carla Rossi a philologist and art historian has been a prolific figure in academia since the 1990s focusing on Italian Old-French and Latin literature. Her works 50 books and over 200 articles cover critical editions of Renaissance Italian texts as well as research into Anglo-Norman texts Marie de France the intellectual milieu around Archbishop Thomas Becket and the life and works of Alain de Lille. Rossi began at Sapienza University of Rome Italy studying romance philology and art history. She achieved higher qualifications in Italian language and literature French literature and Art history at the University of Zurich Switzerland. After earning her PhD in Romance Philology at the University of Fribourg Switzerland Rossi was awarded two university teaching habilitations in medieval and renaissance Italian literature and in Old French literature and she was later recognised by the University of Zurich with the six-year title of Titularprofessorin. In 2006 she initiated the Biblioclasm & Digital Reconstruction project which has to date restored approximately 500 dismembered manuscripts. Currently she is a visiting expert in the History of Illumination at the University of Salento Italy teaching courses on the digital reconstruction of dismembered medieval manuscripts.