Gavino Scala

He obtained a PhD in Romance Philology in 2021 with a thesis entitled ‘La tradizione manoscritta del Livre du gouvernement des roys et des princes di Henri de Gauchy. Studio filologico e saggio di edizione’ at the University of Siena in cotutorship with the University of Zurich (tutors: Prof. A. A. Schoysman - Prof. R. Trachsler). This philological and literary study was later incorporated into the monograph published in 2024 entitled ‘Le livre du gouvernement des roys et des princes di Henri de Gauchy. Studio filologico - Edizione critica (I libro)' (Narr, Tübingen). He carried out research activities at the Universities of Fribourg and Geneva, working on the philological-historical study and the critical editions of ambassadors' treatises as part of the project ‘Les “ traités d'ambassadeurs ” : expérience personnelle et construction d'un discours normatif (XIIIe-XVIe siècle)’, led by Prof. N.-L. Perret. In 2024, he obtained the Certificat de spécialisation en humanités numériques at the University of Geneva, specialising in particular on the subject of digital editions and OCR-HTR systems applied to medieval manuscripts. Since March 2025 he works as Post-Doc Assistant on the project ‘Fable, Emblem, Poem, Performance : Renaissance Word and Image Tales’, led by Prof. G. Cirnigliaro.

In addition to the digital humanities, his research interests focus on French, Latin and Italian medieval didactic literature, the genre of specula principis (in particular Aegidius Romanus' De regimine principum and its French translations) and specula dominarum, the propaganda literature of the French court (13th-14th c.), ambassadors' medieval treatises, and the links between law and literature in the medieval landscape.