The topic of my PhD thesis is the initiatory symbolism of the rose in European literature, especially in English, French and Italian literature. The starting point is a forgotten book of Gabriele Rossetti on the esotericism of Dante and the medieval love poets, Il Mistero dell’Amor Platonico nel Medioevo (1840, The Mystery of Platonic Love in the Middle Ages), and I focus on the literature of the 19th and 20th century, in authors such as Nerval, Péladan, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Yeats and Pound.
I am a PhD Researcher in English Literature at the University of Westminster and in French and Comparative Literature at Sorbonne University (dual international PhD). I have been for two years PhD Visiting Researcher at the Department of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam. I published a book on Nerval (La Promenade de Nerval) and different articles in scientific journals on Nerval, Gabriele Rossetti, Mallarmé, the Sufi tradition, Sartre and Foucault. My research interests concern the relations between literature and esotericism.