Staff profile

I completed my bachelor in contemporary history at the University of Bologna, with a thesis on the relations between Italy and Kosovo during the war in Yugoslavia.

I continued my studies in Bologna with a Master in Historical sciences. During the master, I spent 6 months of study and research in Belgium (Ghent University) on a European grant. I completed the MA in 2018 with a thesis in World History, in which I tried to investigate the relationship between Italian travel literature and eastern Europe, specifically looking at how the image of Russia was shaped into specific patterns of representation in the Italian culture and how these patterns developed after the revolution in 1917. 

Conference Papers

Dalmazzo, P. (2020, November).' Pre-Fascist Italian imperialistic discourse How Italian literature shaped eastern Adriatic in the years before the 1st World War.' Paper presented at ASMI POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM 2020.

Dalmazzo, P. (2019, November). 'The voices of Italo-Albanians in the Italian colonial policies, 1890-1914.' Paper presented at SIS PG Colloquium 'Minorities Report. Italian Culture, Facing Otherness.' Durham University

Recent Publications

Research project and interests

Founded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Northen Bridge Scholarship, my research project investigates the cultural representation of expansionism under Fascism, focusing specifically on the discursive construction of the Eastern Adriatic during the regime. The project undertakes an analysis of diverse sources, including travel literature, novels, journal articles and colonial exhibits, produced by Italian culture about the eastern Adriatic. This analysis adopts a thalassological perspective to examine the region and employs various postcolonial theories. These methodologies aim to illuminate how Italian fascist culture portrayed the Adriatic employing figures, narrations and motifs typical of colonial discourses. Through this case study, the research focuses on the distinctive aspects of Fascism's colonial discourse in Italy. It tries to offer a perspective on the functioning of Fascism as an ideology, capable of generating original arguments, representations and discourses to legitimate imperial expansion.

Seminars Organized

Teaching activity

Working Papers

• Italian imperialism, Fascism, Euro-Orientalism, Colonialism, Mediterranean History, WWII, Colonial exhibits, Western Balkans.

Book review

• Dalmazzo, P. (2022). Paolo Orrù (a cura di), Percorsi/Contatti/Migrazioni/Dualismi. Nord/Sud e Mediterraneo nella lingua, nella letteratura e nella cultura Italiana, Firenze, Franco Cesati Editore, 2021, pp. 282. Bollettino '900, 2022(1-2),

Chapter in book

• Dalmazzo, P. (in press). The Ottoman Empire and Italian Imperial Discourse: How the Italian Literature Represented Ottoman Rule in Albania to Legitimate Its Imperial Ambitions. In Travellers in Ottoman Lands: the Balkans, Anatolia and beyond. Oxford: Archaeopress
• Dalmazzo, P. (in press). L’Italianità attraverso il mare La rappresentazione dell’Italia come centro nelle ‘Visioni Spirituali’ di Domenico Tumiati e Guido Milanesi. In Le Visioni spirituali d’Italia di Jolanda De Blasi: spazio e letteratura in Italia negli anni del Fascismo. Franco Cesati Editore
• Dalmazzo, P., Delpino, G., & Di Lella, R. A. (2022). Collezioni critiche. Collezioni coloniali. Riflessioni sugli oggetti provenienti dall’ex Museo Coloniale di Roma. In B. E. Barich, & L. Musso (Eds.), Italia-Libia: i luoghi dell'archeologia, dagli archivi all'impegno sul campo. Italy-Libya: archaeological landscapes, from archives to fieldwork (11-20). Rome: Scienze e Lettere

Presentation

• Dalmazzo, P. (2020, November). Pre-Fascist Italian imperialistic discourse How Italian literature shaped eastern Adriatic in the years before the 1st World War. Paper presented at ASMI POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM 2020
• Dalmazzo, P. (2019, November). The voices of Italiano-Albanians in the Italian colonial policies, 1890 - 1914. Paper presented at SIS PG Colloquium - Minorities Report. Italian Culture, Facing Otherness, Durham University
• Dalmazzo, P. (2022, August). Ottoman Empire and Italian imperialistic discourse How the Italian literature represented the Ottoman rule in Albania in order to legitimate an imperialistic discourse. Paper presented at TIOL 2. Seminar Travellers in Ottoman Lands: the Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond, Sarajevo
• Dalmazzo, P. (2021, March). Use of memory in the cultural colonial claims, D'Annunzio and the use of the Venetian Empire. Paper presented at CFP GSAIS 2021 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ITALIAN STUDIES Memory and Imagination in Italian Fiction and Non-Fiction
• Dalmazzo, P. (2022, May). Italy and eastern Adriatic through the autobiography of Beatrice Speraz. Paper presented at 3rd IASA International Symposium in Italy Italian Diaspora(s): the manifestation and dynamic of the cultural change., Lucca

Working Paper

• Dalmazzo, P. The Fascist Empire’s time and eschatology in the eastern Adriatic, a shifting border