Fiorentini, Luca

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Luca Fiorentini (Piacenza, 1984) is an associate professor of Italian Literature at Sapienza University of Rome. He graduated in Modern Philology from the University of Pavia (2008), as a fellow of the Collegio Ghislieri and the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori. He earned his Ph.D. in Philology, Linguistics, and Literature from Sapienza University of Rome (2012), and then became a postdoctoral fellow at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici in Naples (2011-2013), the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne (2013-2014), the Collège de France (2014-2017), and the University of Toronto (2017-2019). His research primarily focuses on the early critical reception of Dante’s Commedia, a topic to which he has dedicated the monographs Per Benvenuto da Imola. Le linee ideologiche del commento dantesco (Il Mulino, 2016) and Petrarch and Boccaccio in the First Commentaries on Dante’s Commedia (Routledge, 2020, ‘Young Feltrinelli Prize in the Moral Sciences’ series). In 2021, under the direction of Carlo Ossola, he edited the commentary for the bilingual edition of Dante’s Commedia, translated by Jacqueline Risset, published in Gallimard’s ‘Pléiade’ collection. More recently, he has published studies on Italian authors of the late 20th century, including Giorgio Caproni and Pier Paolo Pasolini. In 2018, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei awarded him the ‘Antonio Feltrinelli Giovani’ prize for Art and Poetry Criticism. He also writes about contemporary literature and essays for «L’Indice dei libri del mese» and the cultural supplement of «il manifesto», «Alias Domenica».