Elena Santagata is an ESKAS Research Fellow at the University of Fribourg and Adjunct Professor at the University of Clermont Auvergne. She specialices in twentieth-century Italian poetry and authorial philology, as well as on Renaissance literature. Her publications include “Col rovescio del binocolo”. Montale e il sublime del comico (2022; Montale Prize 2024) and “Con le mani in tasca”: Guido Gozzano e il suo tempo (2024). She has also edited Luigi Guicciardini’s Comparatione del giuoco delli scacchi alla arte militare (2024).