Francesco Lucioli is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Sapienza University in Rome. His research focuses particularly on early modern Italian literature in both Latin and the vernacular. He is the author of Amore punito e disarmato. Parola e immagine da Petrarca all’Arcadia (2013), Jacopo Sadoleto umanista e poeta (2014), Tramutazioni dell’Orlando furioso. Sulla ricezione del poema ariostesco (2020), and “Il Furioso si ritrova per tutto”. Un secolo di letture e riscritture (1545-1645). He is the Principal Investigator of the “TransLATINg Italian Literature” project.