Franziska Meier is Professor of Romance Philology (French and Italian Literature) at the Georgia Augusta University, Göttingen. Her early research in Italian studies focused on modern literature, particularly the relationship of novelists with fascism and the anti-fascist resistance movement. More recently, her scholarly interests have converged on Dante, Boccaccio and Renaissance art history. Of her numerous works should be noted: «Dante alle prese con i ‘colori rettorici’. Un aspetto della riflessione metapoetologica fra la Vita Nova e il Convivio», in Dante e la retorica, ed. by Luca Marcozzi, Ravenna: Longo 2017, “Arte letteratura storia. Dantis Amor. Dante e i Rossetti”, Atti del convegno internazionale, ed. by Mirko Menna and Gianni Oliva. XX, II/2016, p. 171-186; “Questa sarà luce nuovo, sole nuovo. Dante and the Vernacular in Convivio I”, in Dante’s Convivio or how to restart a career in exile, Oxford 2018, p. 99-114.
