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Daniele Ruini receives Michel Zink's research prize in Romance philology

The Research Prize in Romance Philology created by Michel Zink from the research funds of his 2007 Balzan Prize has been awarded for 2013 to Mr. Daniele Ruini by a jury made up of Ms. Giovanna Angeli, Professor at the University of Florence, Mr. Karlheinz Stierle, Professor Emeritus at the University of Konstanz, correspondent of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, and Michel Zink.

After a Laurea thesis at the University of Bologna on La corte di Champagne e l'Eructavit nel manoscritto: Paris, BnF fr. 902. Edizione critica e commento, Mr. Daniele Ruini defended in 2011 at the European Doctoral School in Romance Philology of the University of Siena a thesis directed by Professors Roberto Crespo (University of Pavia), Michel Zink (Collège de France) and Elvira Fidalgo (University of Santiago de Compostela) on the following subject: La Conception Nostre Dame di Wace. Edizione critica.

During the 2011-2012 academic year, a postdoctoral fellowship from the City of Paris enabled her to complete the study and editing of an unpublished compilation in the langue d'oïl on the Life of Jesus (ms. Paris, BnF fr. 1527).

All these works have been published or are currently being lectured.

Trained in the best Italian philological schools, Daniele Ruini has already established himself as one of the leading connoisseurs and interpreters of medieval French adaptations of biblical and apocryphal books.