Matteo Pace is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Connecticut College. In his research, he focuses on the intersections between vernacular cultures and medical thought in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. He has published on Boccaccio’s Decameron, Guido Cavalcanti and Dino del Garbo (Studi sul Boccaccio, 2016), on Giacomo da Lentini and the Aristotelian tradition (Traditio, 2020), on Guido Guinizzelli, Avicenna, and Taddeo Alderotti’s medical philosophy (Romanic Review, 2022), and on Catherine of Siena’s theology of blood (Italica, 2022). His current book project explores the varied networks of medieval literary cultures through the cultural reception of ancient and medieval medicine.