STEFANO MILONIA

ACADEMIC HISTORY
1/4/2026-
Associate Professor of Romance Philology and Linguistics, Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani e Interculturali, Sapienza Università di Roma

10/2025-3/2026
Assegnista di ricerca, Project MeRCE (PI), Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani e Interculturali, Sapienza Università di Roma

9/2025-10/2025
Franco Zeffirelli Italian Fellow in Medieval Studies, American Academy in Rome

9/2023-8/2025
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Musikwissenschaftliches Institut
Project: MIME: Melodic Imitation in Medieval Europe - Grant id: 101060505

8/2024-10/2024
Visiting Scholar, Department of Music Technology, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montréal.

2/2022 – 8/2023
Assegnista di ricerca (Postdoc), Scuola Superiore Meridionale
Testi, Tradizioni e Culture del Libro. Studi italiani e romanzi
Project title: The Literary Network of Contrafacta in Medieval French and Occitan Lyric

9/2019 – 2/2022
WIRL-COFUND Fellow (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions)
Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick
School of Modern Languages and Cultures

10/2018 – 6/2019
Visiting Scholar
Modern and Medieval Languages – University of Cambridge
Research scholarship funded by Sapienza Università di Roma

10–11/2016
Ingénieur d’étude
CNRS, Université de Toulouse 2 - Jean Jaurès (Clle, ERSS)
Director of the project IDEX: Dominique Billy

11/2014 – 2/2018
Ph.D. in Scienze del Testo (Romance Philology and Literature)
Sapienza Università di Roma
and Histoire, Textes et Documents (Études occitanes langue et cultures des pays d’oc) PSL - École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris.
Grade: Cum laude.
Supervisors: Paolo Canettieri (Sapienza Università di Roma) and Fabio Zinelli (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris).
Committee: Roberto Antonelli (Sapienza Università di Roma) Dominique Billy (Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès), Bill Burgwinkle (King’s College, Cambridge), Costanzo di Girolamo (Università di Napoli, Federico II).
Dissertation: Critical Edition of the Love Songs and Vers of the Troubadour Peirol d’Alvergne.

10/2015 – 6/2016
Visiting Student
Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge

10/2012 – 7/2014
MA Degree in Scienze del Testo (Linguistica e filologia romanza)
Sapienza Università di Roma
Supervisors: Paolo Canettieri, Roberto Antonelli, Dominique Billy.
Grade: 110 cum laude/110.
Curriculum: “Linguistica e filologia romanza”

5/2014 – 7/2014
Completion for Master Dissertation Abroad
University of Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès
Supervisor: Dominique Billy

10/2009 to 12/2012
BA Degree in Lettere (Lingua e letteratura italiana)
Sapienza Università di Roma
Grade: 110 cum laude/110.
Supervisor: Paolo Canettieri

9/2011 to 6/2012
Erasmus Programme
Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle
Main subjects: French Literature and Language, Theatre Theory, Comparative Literature, Latin.

TEACHING
2023-2024. Introduction to MEI (Undergraduates, 30 hour course).
Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2023. Nuove tecnologie per nuovi progetti: come realizzare il proprio progetto di filologia digitale [How to make your own digital philology project] (Undergraduate, Graduate and PhD students, 10 hour course).
Scuola Superiore Meridionale
2022. Dal testo al contesto: Vidas e razos occitane [From Text to Context: Occitan vidas and razos] (Undergraduates, 5 hour course)
Scuola Superiore Meridionale
2022. Lezioni di contraffazione [Lectures on counterfeiting], (PhD students, 6 hours course)
Scuola Superiore Meridionale
2022. FR331: Violence, Religion and Revolt in Renaissance France (Lecturer, week 8)
University of Warwick
2021. FR122: French Cultural Landmarks: Love, Language and Power (Lecturer, week 8)
University of Warwick
2020. Supervisor for the module ‘Science of Music’
University of Warwick
2018. Romance Philology (20 hour course)
Sapienza Università di Roma
2018. Digital Philology Workshop: 6 hours
Sapienza Università di Roma
2017. Romance Linguistics: 10 hour course
Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo”
2017. Medieval Romance Literature: 4 hour course
Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo”
2015/2016. Italian language supervision: Three terms
King’s College, University of Cambridge

AWARDS
2025. ERC-Starting Grant. Project MUSICA FRANCA (1.497.000 €)
2025. Franco Zeffirelli Italian Fellowship in Medieval Studies, American Academy in Rome.
2025 Seed-of-ERC, Post-doctoral Scholarship (1 year, € 60.000), Dip. Studi Europei, Sapienza.
2022. 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies Travel Award (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo).
2022. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship.
2021. Post-doctoral Scholarship (3 years), Scuola Superiore Meridionale.
2021. BE-FOR-ERC: Post-doctoral Scholarship (1 year), Dip. Studi Europei, Sapienza (turned down).
2021. Post-doctoral Scholarship, Digital Humanities (1 year), Univ. Venezia Ca’ Foscari (turned down).
2021. Warwick Institute of Advanced Study Award (£ 2500 research funding).
2020. Warwick Institute of Advanced Study Award (£ 5000 research funding).
2020. Academic staff member with focus on Digital Musicology (3+3 year postdoctoral fellowship, 50%), Universität Tübingen (turned down)
2019. Award as Digital Humanities Specialist for the PRIN project Prosopographical Atlas of Romance Literature (Sapienza, € 7000)
2018. WIRL-COFUND Fellowship (Warwick, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions 2019-2021)
2018. Research funding in the project ‘New Intersections between Literature and Religion’ (Sapienza)
2018-2019. Scholarship for perfection abroad (Sapienza - Cambridge)
2015. Starting Research Funding (Avvio alla ricerca) for the project ‘Concordances of Troubadour Melodies’ (Sapienza)
2014-2017. Doctorate Scholarship (Sapienza)
2014. Completion of Master Dissertation Abroad Scholarship (Sapienza - Toulouse II, Jean Jaurès)
2011-2012. Erasmus Scholarship (Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III)

PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
2016 S. Milonia. Rima e melodia nell’arte allusiva dei trovatori (Roma: Nuova Cultura - Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani e Interculturali).

Forthcoming - Contrafacta and Musical Reuse in Medieval Europe, ed. by Stefano Milonia, Tübingen University Press.
In preparation - S. Milonia, Il trovatore Peirol. Edizione critica.

Refereed Articles
2025 S. Milonia, ‘Encoding and Publishing Critical Editions of Medieval Music with MedMel (with a special focus on Romance-Language Lyrics)’ Early Music (forthcoming, DOI: 10.1093/em/caaf020).
2023 S. Milonia, ‘Connecting Medieval Music. Rethinking Centres and Peripheries of Medieval Contrafacta in a Digital Perspective’, in Occitània. Centres e periferias/Centri e periferie. Atti del XIII Convegno dell’AIEO, Cuneo, 12-17 luglio 2021, a cura di Andrea Giraudo, Walter Meliga, Giuseppe Noto, Aline Pons, Matteo Rivoira, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2023, pp. 209-219.
2023 S. Milonia, M. Mazzamurro. ‘Temporal Networks of Contrafacta in the First Three Troubadour Generations’, Digital Scholarship for the Humanities, 38/1, pp. 240–256.
2022 S. Milonia, Bernart (de Ventadorn?) ~ Peirol. Peirol, cum avetz tant estat (BdT 70.32 = 366.23), Lecturae tropatorum, 15, pp. 1-26.
2021 S. Milonia. ‘The Castaway and the Soothsayer: Traces of the Old Testament in the Prehistory of the Tristan En Prose’, Medium Ævum, 90/2, pp. 275-299.
2020b S. Milonia. ‘« La chanson un peu particulière de Richard Cœur de Lion ». L’enjeu de la musique dans le genre de la rotrouenge’, Textus et Musica, II.
2020a S. Milonia. ‘Cavalli Cavalcanti. Il medioevo ritrovato nella poesia di Giulia Martini’, Polisemie: Rivista di poesia iper-contemporanea, I, 1-19.
2020 P. Canettieri, L. Gatti, M. Bisceglia, E. F. Di Meo, M. Distilo, V. Machera, A. Marziali Peretti, S. Milonia, E. Verzilli, S. Visalli. ‘Il laboratorio di lirica medievale romanza (LMR-lab)’, in La Filologia Medievale. Comparatistica, critica del testo e attualità. Atti del Convegno (Viterbo, 26-28 settembre 2018), a cura di R. Gamberini, P. Canettieri, G. Santini e R. Tinaburri (Rome: l'Erma di Bretschneider), 63-89.
2019a S. Milonia. ‘Peirol, Coras que¬¬·m fezes doler (BdT 366.9)’, Lecturae tropatorum, 12, 159-189.
2019 S. Milonia, E. Verzilli. ‘Tradizione testuale e tradizione musicale nelle liriche del Castellano di Coucy’, in Ch. Chaillou-Amadieu, O. Floquet, M. Grimaldi (dir.), Philologie et musicologie. Des sources à l’interprétation poético-musicale (XIIe-XVIe siècle) (Paris: Garnier), 81-112.
2018 S. Milonia. ‘Peirol. Primi passi verso una nuova edizione critica’, in Antonelli, Roberto / Videsott, Paul / Glessgen, Martin, 2018, Atti del XXVIII Congresso internazionale di linguistica e filologia romanza (Roma, 18-23 luglio 2016) (Strasbourg: Bibliothèque de Linguistique Romane, 2018), 1176-1787.
2017 S. Milonia. ‘Riccardo Cuor di Leone, Ja nus hons pris ne dira sa raison. Una proposta di edizione critica’, Critica del Testo, XX/2, 243-300.
2016a S. Milonia. ‘«Tu se’ morto». Riflessione sulle condizioni di esistenza dell’Io nella Commedia’, Strumenti Critici, XXXI/3 (n. 142), 241-268.

Digital outputs as PI
2021c S. Milonia, Troubadour Melodies: A Complete Digital Edition (published on Medieval Melody). (Project director and main contributor; supervised collaborators: E. Faillace, S. M. Visalli, A. Comprubí Vinyals). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7255730
2021b S. Milonia, Medieval Melody, Editor and Database for the Music of Medieval Lyric in Modern, Square and Messine notation. (PI and co-developer; supervised collaborator: A. Reale). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7254259
2021a S. Milonia, Connecting Medieval Music. Digital Repertory of European Contrafacta. (PI; supervised collaborators: S. Jones, S. M. Visalli, E. Faillace).

Digital Resources for Research and Teaching (a selection)
2024 Corpus of Medieval Occitan Lyrics (CMOL): Interactive corpus providing search tools, concordances, and text access to the lyric tradition of the troubadours | https://medmel.seai.uniroma1.it/cmol/
2023 Networks of European Contrafacta: Geospatial and relational network models tracing musical re-use across medieval Europe. Demonstrates integration of historical, musical, and geographic metadata. | https://medmel.seai.uniroma1.it/network/
2023–ongoing Rhyme Repertory of Old French Lyrics: Tool for automated rhyme retrieval in a corpus with non-standard orthography. Serves as a digital appendix to a forthcoming print edition.

Record of Invention
MedMus – Digital Humanities-Data Workbench Extension for Medieval Music, Literature, and Cultural Heritage. Deposited to Warwick Venture, University of Warwick, 2021.
A Drupal based database software using an extended CIDOC-CRM ontology for the encoding, visualization, and manipulation of data in a geographical and chronological perspective.

Edited Journal Issues
2020-2023 Polisemie: Rivista di poesia iper-contemporanea, I-IV (University of Warwick Press).

Reviews
2023 Rachel May Golden, Mapping Medieval Identities in Occitanian Crusade Song. Medium Ævum, 92.2:
2022 David Murray, Poetry in Motion: Languages and Lyrics in the European Middle Ages, Medium Ævum, 91.2, 367-368.
2021 George Corbett, Dante’s Christian Ethics: Purgatory and its Moral Context, Medium Ævum, 90.2, 363-364.
2021 Laura Melosi, D’Annunzio e l’edizione 1911 della Commedia, Medium Ævum, 90.1, 171-172.
2021 A Boccaccian Renaissance: Essays on the Early Modern Impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and his Works, ed. Martin Eisner and David Lummus, Medium Ævum, 90.1, 194-195.
2021 Ivan Schiavone, Tavole e stanze, Oèdipus, 2019, Semicerchio: Rivista di poesia comparata 64/1, 127-128.
2020 Aimer ou ne pas aimer: Boccace, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta et Corbaccio, ed. Anna Pia Filotico, Manuele Gragnolati, and Philippe Guerin (Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2018), Medium Ævum, 89.1, 205-206.
2020 Atti degli incontri sulle opere di Dante. I. Vita nova, Fiore, Epistola XIII, ed. Manuele Gragnolati, Luca Carlo Rossi, Paola Allegretti, Natascia Tonelli, and Alberto Casadei (Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2018), Medium Ævum, 89.1, 205.
2019 Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins: Twelve Literary and Historical Essays, edited by John C. Barnes and Daragh O’Connell (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017), Medium Ævum, 88.1, 202-203.
2018 Jennifer Rushworth, Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch and Proust, Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), Medium Ævum, 87.2, 416-417.
2018 I libri che hanno fatto l’Europa: manoscritti latini e romanzi da Carlo Magno all’invenzione della stampa. Biblioteche Corsiniana e romane. Catalogo a cura di R. Antonelli, N.Cannata, M. Cecconi, E. Condello, M. Cursi, M. Signorini (Rome: Bardi, 2016), Linguæ &, 1, 89-93.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS
2025. ‘Extrapolation and Integration: Defining “Context” in French Medieval Song.’ 6-8 November. American Musicological Society - Society for Music Theory 2025 Joint Annual Meeting. Minneapolis.
2025. ‘Amours n’est pas que c’on die, Nouviaument m’est pris envie, and Ne chant pas que que nus die’, MUSLIVE workshop, King’s College London, 17-18 September 2025.
2024. ‘Exploring Music Connections in the Middle Ages’. Columbia University, New York, 13 September.
2024. ‘Mimesis and Imitatio: Exploring Medieval Lyric Composition Through a Digital Approach’, Contrafacta and Musical Imitation in Medieval Europe, Tübingen, 27-28 June.
2023. ‘Melodic Mimesis: Exploring the Networks of Contrafacta in Medieval European Lyric Poetry, with a Focus on the Occitan and French Tradition’, Mediävistische Forschung in Tübingen. Projekte und Perspektiven (8 December).
2023. ‘The Musical Culture of Medieval France (and how a digital approach can tell us something new’ Colloquium Digitale, Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (22 November).
2023. ‘Super and Contra. Conversion and Resemantization of Medieval French Lyric in the Ludus super Anticlaudianum’, Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures, Queen’s College, Oxford, 23 May (invited presentation).
2023. ‘Olim in harmonia multis erat studium. I molti volti del contrafactum europeo’, Seminari di Filologia romanza, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, 15 March.
2022. Young Italian Poetry, Lecture by Fabio Zinelli and Stefano Milonia, Stockholm Italian Institute of Culture, 18 October. (Invited presentation).
2022. Round table speaker. Le nuove frontiere della proprietà intellettuale, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, 7 July (Invited presentation).
2022. ‘Encoding and displaying MEI for medieval monody with MedMel’, Music Encoding Conference, 19-22 May (Invited presentation).
2022. ‘MedMel: A new editor and database for medieval music’, International Congress on Medieval Studies, 9-14 May (Travel Award winner).
2021. ‘Du parchemin à l’écran : pour une cartographie des contrafacta médiévaux’, « Chanter sur l’air de… » (Moyen Âge-XXIe siècle), 3-4 November 2021 / 11-12 January 2022, Paris - Université de la Sorbonne.
2021. ‘A Digital Approach to Contrafacta and Medieval Music’, Cambridge Medieval Literature and Culture Seminar, St John’s College, Cambridge, 21 October. (Invited presentation)
2021. ‘Reconstructing Medieval Networks: Influence and Imitation in European Vernacular Lyric’, Online Medieval French Seminar, 4 August.
2021. ‘Contrafacta in the European Middle Ages: Connections, Centres and Peripheries’, XIIIè Congrès de l’Associacion Internacionala d’Estudis Occitans, Cuneo, Italy (online) 12-16 July. (Invited presentation to Medieval Musicology roundtable)
2019. ‘Songs in series, Order and Distribution of Peirol’s Compositions in Old Occitan Sources’, Leeds International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds) 1-4 July.
2019. ‘Peirol, Coras que·m fezes doler (BEdT 366,9)’, Settimo colloquio internazionale Lecturæ Tropatorum (Università di Torino, 13-15 June).
2019. ‘Tradition et innovation dans les mélodies du chansonnier des troubadours R (BnF, fr. 22543)’, Trans-mission, Creacion et ibridacion dins lo domeni d’òc (Université Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès, 29 March).
2018. [with L. Gatti et al.] ‘Le edizioni digitali di LMR’, La Filologia Medievale. Comparatistica, Critica del Testo e Attualità, Università degli studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, 26 – 28 September. (Invited presentation)
2018. ‘The loss of the individual. Dante and the Self from the Vita Nova to the Commedia’, Cambridge Medieval Literature and Culture Seminar (University of Cambridge, 18 May). (Invited presentation)
2017. [with Dominique Billy et al.] ‘Le chansonnier R’. Sesto Colloquio internazionale Lecturae tropatorum (Como, 30 May - 1 June).
2017. ‘« La chanson un peu particulière de Richard Cœur de Lion ». L’enjeu de la musique dans le genre de la rotrouenge’. 1er Congrès franco-italien « Qui dit tradition dit faute ? » La faute dans les corpus chantés du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance (Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Musée de l’Abbaye de Gellone, 21-24 May). (Invited presentation)
2016. ‘(Re)trobar. Intertestualità invisibili nei trovatori’. Seminario del dottorato in Scienze del Testo, (Sapienza Università di Roma, 11th March). (Invited presentation)
2016. ‘Peirol. Primi passi verso una nuova edizione critica’. XXVIII congresso internazionale di Filologia Romanza (Sapienza Università di Roma, 19 July).
2015. ‘CMT (Melodic Concordances in the Troubadours)’. (New York, Columbia University, 3rd November). (Invited presentation)
2015. [with Elisa Verzilli] ‘Tradizione testuale e tradizione musicale nelle liriche del Castellano di Coucy’, Philologie et musicologie II. Des sources à l'interprétation poético-musicale (XIIe-XVIe siècle), Colloque international franco-italien (Università di Roma Sapienza, Collège de France, 18th - 20th June).

ORGANIZATION OF ACADEMIC EVENTS
2024 Contrafacta and Musical Imitation in Medieval Europe. International Conference. (Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 27–28 June, Organizer).
2021 ‘TwentyTwenty Extended Conference: Interpreting 21st Century Poetry’ (15-session international conference, Online - University of Warwick, Università degli studi Siena, Sapienza Università di Roma, 19th January-25th May, Co-host).
2018/2019 ‘Cambridge Medieval Literature and Culture Seminar’ (King’s College Cambridge)
2019 ‘Polisemie: Festival di poesia iper-contemporanea’ (Sapienza Università di Roma, 24th May).
2019 ‘Polisemie. Seminari di poesia iper-contemporanea’ (Sapienza Università di Roma, 6 events, January – May).

PROJECTS
• MUSICA FRANCA, ERC-Starting Grant 2026-2031 (Principal Investigator).
• Lyrik des Deutchen Mittelalters, DFG - FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg - Stuttgart (external collaborator).
• *MIME, University of Tübingen (Principal Investigator).
• * Connecting Medieval Music, University of Warwick (Principal Investigator).
• * MedMel: Database of Medieval Music for the Romance Repertory (Principal Investigator and developer)
• Prosopographical Atlas of Romance Literature, PRIN-MIUR, project, Sapienza, Milan, Cambobasso, Bari, 2020-2023. PI: Paolo Canettieri (Digital Humanities Consultant and developer)
• * Polisemie: Rivista di poesia iper-contemporanea, University of Warwick Press (co-founder and Editor-in-chief, 2020-present)
• Lirica Medievale Romanza. Responsible for the sections “Troubadours” and “Music”, “Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani e Interculturali”, Sapienza Università di Roma; 2012 PI: Paolo Canettieri.
• “Canone letterario e lessico delle emozioni nel Medioevo europeo”, PRIN-MIUR project, Sapienza Università di Roma; PI: Roberto Antonelli.
• “I libri che hanno fatto l’Europa” “Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani e Interculturali”, Sapienza Università di Roma; PI: Piero Boitani.
• Concordanze Melodiche dei Trovatori, Starting Research Funding, Sapienza Università di Roma, 2015.
• MEM - Medioevo Musicale (Fondazione Ezio Franceshini), director: Maria Sofia Lannutti. Collaborator, from 2014-present.

DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND MEDIEVAL MUSICOLOGY COURSES
• Barcelona Past Networks Summer School, 16-19 June 2026.
• Edirom Summer School, Paderborn, 26-30 September 2016 (Intensive courses on Edirom editor, MEI, MEI Metadata, Digital editions in praxis (Teachers: Johannes Kepper, Benjamin W. Bohl).
• Musikphilologie zwischen Edition und Digitalität – Music Philology between Edition and Digitality, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz 12-17 September 2016 (Teacher: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch).
• Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA), 2-6 May 2016, University of Cambridge – King’s College London (Teachers: Elena Pierazzo, Peter Stokes).
• Corso di paleografia musicale MuSS (Musical Paleography Course: “Music Sign, Sound”), 10-22 dicembre 2013, Roma, CampusX Roma Tor Vergata (Teachers: Giacomo Baroffio and Marco Gozzi).
• Sesto Corso di Formazione sulla Musica nel Medioevo (Sixth Training Course on Music in the Middle Ages), 2-6 dicembre 2013, Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Firenze. (Teacher: Maria Sofia Lannutti)

DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCE
• Programming and Web Development: Proficient in Python and full-stack development (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL).
• Network and Data Analysis: Applied network analysis and temporal modelling to medieval textual and musical corpora.
• Content Management Systems: Experienced with Drupal, WordPress, and Open Journal Systems (OJS).
• Digital Scholarly Editing: Advanced user of the Oxygen XML Editor and MEI (Music Encoding Initiative); working knowledge of XSLT.