Valentina Serio

Valentina Serio is currently Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her research project 'GARZONI' is focused on Tommaso Garzoni's Serraglio degli stupori del mondo and other Early Modern encyclopedias and vernacular texts devoted to preternatural phenomena. This research, delving into the analysis of  broader context of the European vernacular debate on marvels and superstition, aims at providing a new insight on the circulation of scientific knowledge among non-specialist audiences,  the intermingling of learned culture and popular creeds, and analyse the scientific and epistemological impact of this discussion.

Beside the scope of the Garzoni Project, Valentina's research interests encompasses melancholy and the history of emotion understood from a political perspective and the Renaissance theatre culture.