Isabelle Boursier's Book of Hours, a Dismembered Manuscript from Mary Benson's Collection

Carla Rossi, a philologist and art historian, has been a prolific figure in academia since the 1990s, focusing on Italian, Old-French, and Latin literature. Her works – 50 books and over 200 articles – cover critical editions of Renaissance Italian texts, as well as research into Anglo-Norman texts, Marie de France, the intellectual milieu around Archbishop Thomas Becket, and the life and works of Alain de Lille. Rossi began at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, studying romance philology and art history. She achieved higher qualifications in Italian language and literature, French literature, and Art history at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. After earning her PhD in Romance Philology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Rossi was awarded two university teaching habilitations in medieval and renaissance Italian literature and in Old French literature, and she was later recognised by the University of Zurich with the six-year title of Titularprofessorin. In 2006, she initiated the "Biblioclasm & Digital Reconstruction" project, which has to date restored approximately 500 dismembered manuscripts. Currently she is a visiting expert in the History of Illumination at the University of Salento, Italy, teaching courses on the digital reconstruction of dismembered medieval manuscripts.