PIROVANO DONATO

Donato Pirovano (Como, 1964) is Professor of Dante Philology and Criticism at the University of Milan. He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin. He previously taught at the University of Molise, the University of Insubria and the University of Turin, where he also directed the Department of Humanistic Studies from 2018 to 2022. He has held and holds public Dante readings at various cultural institutions. He has participated as a speaker and in some cases as an organiser at international conferences and has lectured at many prestigious Italian and foreign universities. In his research activity, he was initially interested in Italian novellistics from Boccaccio to the 16th century. He then worked on Dante's commentaries and especially on Dante. Among his many publications (around 180), the critically revised and commented new edition of the Vita nuova (Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2015 as part of NECOD), the commented edition of Gabriele d'Annunzio's Francesca da Rimini (Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2018), the essay Amore e colpa. Dante e Francesca (Rome, Donzelli, 2021) and the book La nudità di Beatrice. Dante, Giotto, Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the New Iconography of Charity (Rome, Donzelli, 2023).