Jacopo Pesaresi is a PhD student in the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna. His research focuses on Italian literature, paying particular attention to the poetic traditions of Humanism and the Renaissance. He has published editions of two works by Basinio da Parma – the Liber Isottaeus and an epic poem attributed to him (Cognatas cantabo acies) – and is currently studying the elegies Basinio composed in Ferrara at the court of Leonello d’Este. His main research interests also include Petrarch and the reception of his vernacular works in early modern Italy and Europe.