Luca Marcozzi is professor of Italian literature at the University of Roma Tre, Department of Humanities. His main interests are Dante, Petrarch and Renaissance literature. Among his recent books, Bembo (Firenze 2017), la cura di Dante e la retorica (Ravenna 2017), Dante e il mondo animale (Roma 2013), Lessico critico petrarchesco (Roma 2016), la voce Petrarca, Francesco per il Dizionario biografico degli Italiani (Roma 2015), il commento alla Comedia di Dante con figure dipinte. L’incunabolo veneziano del 1491 nell’esemplare della Casa di Dante in Roma (Roma 2015) as well as numerous Dante contributions in volumes and magazines. He was a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Notre Dame (2013) and has held courses and seminars at various universities (University College London, College University of New York, UCLA, Johns Hopkins University, Paris Sorbonne, Freie Universität Berlin, Shanghai International University etc.).