The project

This research project is funded by the University of Parma under Rector's Decree no. 438 on 16 February 2024, providing €27,800 under Action A of the 2023 University Research Call. The two-year project started on 1 March 2024.

This interdisciplinary project brings together researchers from the universities of Parma, Lisbon (FLUL), Rome (La Sapienza) and Bogotá (Los Andes).

The project's primary objectives are to study and transcribe the manuscripts comprising the dossier of the unpublished tragedy The Duke of Parma by Fernando Pessoa, which has not yet received adequate attention from scholars and philologists studying Pessoa; to create a digital archive of The Duke of Parma; to plan a critical and genetic edition of the play; and to organise an international conference in February 2026, where the project's findings will be presented and discussed with other members of the international scientific community.