Elisa Tinelli is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Bari. Her research focuses on the exegesis of Dante’s Commedia and on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Latin and vernacular literary traditions. She also works on political thought and writing in Humanism and the Renaissance, as well as on the Italian reception of the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam, particularly the Ciceronianus and the Institutio principis Christiani. She has further devoted sustained scholarly attention to the writings of Ortensio Lando.