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Kate Driscoll

Kate Driscoll

Assistant Professor of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
kate.driscoll@duke.edu
205 Language Center, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708
205 Language Center, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Fall 2025: e-mail for appointment.  

Selected Publications

Renewal and Accoglienza in Tasso’s Rome

Journal Article California Italian Studies · November 3, 2024 Full text Open Access Cite

Heiress of Fiction: Marfisa and the Macabre Legacy of Chivalric Ferrara

Journal Article Renaissance Quarterly · 2024 This essay traces parallel developments in the myths and legends associated with the historical noblewoman Marfisa d’Este (1554–1608) and her literary counterpart Marfisa, the warrior knight from chivalric romance epic poetry. Through the Este prin ... Full text Open Access Cite

Marfisa’s Requiem, Merlinesque and Atlantean: Undying Spectacle in Twentieth-Century Ferrara

Journal Article Letteratura cavalleresca italiana · 2024 This article analyzes early twentieth-century adaptations of Ludovico Ariosto’s character Marfisa from Orlando furioso (1532). The 1933 celebrations organized in Ferrara for Ariosto’s quatercentenary generated numerous literary and artistic tributes, inclu ... Link to item Cite

Italian Chivalric Epic Poetry and Female Readers

Journal Article Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World · October 30, 2022 Full text Open Access Link to item Cite