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Luigi Tassoni
Luigi Tassoni (Catanzaro, 1957) is Professor Emeritus of Italian Literature and Semiotics at the University of Pécs. He has taught at several European universities as well as in the United States, and is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
His extensive scholarly work, published in multiple languages, includes the following recent volumes: Il viaggiatore visibile. Come leggere i romanzi (Carocci, 2008), I silenzi di Dante (Patròn, 2016), L’immagine del pensiero da Agostino a Derrida (Mimesis, 2017), Le meraviglie di Sinisgalli (Fondazione Leonardo Sinisgalli, 2019), Il gioco infinito della poesia. Lettura dei contemporanei da Ungaretti a De Angelis (Giulio Perrone editore, 2021), Diario di lettura e di letteratura (Rubbettino, 2022), and Leonardo Sciascia. Confessions of an Investigator (Rubbettino, 2023, with Milly Curcio).
He is also the author of two books and numerous studies on the painting and drawing of Mattia Preti. As a public intellectual and broadcaster, since 2015 he has hosted the widely followed radio programme Leggìo on Radio Capodistria.
Raffaele Pinto
Raffaele Pinto (Naples, 1951) was educated at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and at the University of Naples “Federico II”. He is Profesor Asociado Extranjero in Italian Philology at the Universitat de Barcelona and Coordinator of the Seminario permanente de psicoanálisis, cine y literatura at the same institution.
His research focuses on Dante and the reception of his work in literature and cinema; the history of modern European literature; and literary theory, with particular attention to psychoanalytic approaches to literature and film.
He directs the Seminario Internazionale di Studi Danteschi (SISD), established in 2023 within the Research Centre for European Philological Tradition, and co-directs, together with Carla Rossi, the Institut d’Estudis Filològics Dantescs i Digitals Avançats (ISFiDa), based in Barcelona.