- Studies on Shakespeare and the rewriting of the classics. The project has already been the subject of two international symposiums organized in Trento (Shakespeare’s Characters Transposed: Iconography, Adaptations, Cultural Exchanges and Staging, 12-14 November 2019; Picturing Drama. Illustrazioni e riscritture dei grandi classici dal 1700 ai nostri giorni, 20-22 March 2013, Shakespeare off-scene. Shakespeare un-seen. Visualizing un-staged events in iconography, adaptations, productions, 29-30 October 2015) and various publications, including a critical edition of the unpublished script of an adaptation of Hamlet for Cesare Rossi's company ("L'Amleto di Cesare Rossi", edited by S. Pietrini, with an essay by S. Stefanelli and A. Frattolillo, special issue of "Nuovi Studi Fanesi", Fano, 2015). Among the other Shakespeare studies, some essays by Sandra Pietrini can be mentioned, such as The Eighteenth-Century Reception of Shakespeare: Translations and Adaptations for Italian Audiences" in E. De Francisci and Ch. Stamatakis (eds), Shakespeare, Italy, and Transnational Exchange. Early Modern to Present, New York and London, Routledge, 2017, pp. 113-124 and Shakespearean Iconography. Some Nineteenth-Century Popular Editions and the Verbal-Visual Nexus to Serpents" in Shakespeare and the Visual Arts. The Italian Influence, editedy by M. Marrapodi, London and New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 260-289.
The studies on Shakespearean iconography were launched in 2011 thanks to some local and national funding. This gave rise to the creation of the Arianna database: a digital archive of images and texts freely available online. The project is carried out by the research group of the Laboratorio Teatrale and makes use of the collaboration of some important Italian institutions, such as the Centro di Documentazione sul Melodramma della Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the Teatro Massimo di Palermo and the Biblioteca Federiciana di Fano, which has recently published Sandra Pietrini’s critical edition of an adaptation of the Hamlet for the company of Cesare Rossi. The project also boasts the collaboration of some important foreigner institutions, such as the Centro de estudos de teatro in Lisbon, the TheaterMuseum in Vienna and the Española de Música Library y Teatro Contemporáneos of the Fundación Juan March of Madrid;