Matthew Mason

Ph.D. Student

mlmason@berkeley.edu

Matthew Mason holds a B.A. from the University of Vermont. He has a background in classics and studies humanist theories of language and literary imitation in Renaissance Italy. He is interested in the rediscovery of Dante’s treatise on poetic language and its role, along with the writings of Boccaccio and Petrarch, in the Italian Questione della lingua. His dissertation concerns Folengo’s epic poem Baldus as a macaronics of Latins and vernaculars.