Pazze di Lui - Mad for Him: Hagiographic Stereotypes

PhD at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2016), Dr. Mattia Zangari's research interests are directed at female sanctity, from the Middle Ages to the modern period. As well as studying the biographies of female saints, for many years he has studied the relationship between female sanctity and mental disturbance, and he has carried out cutting-edge research (he was the first Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow to conduct research at the Vatican, in the frame of a co-supervision with Università Ca' Foscari Venezia). Dr. Zangari carried out research at prestigious centres abroad, such as the CRRS of the University of Toronto. He is author of many publications, the most important are: Santità femminile e disturbi mentali fra Medioevo ed età moderna (Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2022); La santa e il Giglio: mistiche nella Firenze del Seicento (Roma, Carocci, 2022); Tre storie di santità femminile tra parole e immagini: agiografie, memoriali e fabulae depictae fra Due e Trecento (Narr, Tübingen, 2019).