Massimo Mandolini Pesaresi

Massimo Mandolini-Pesaresi is the author of two books of literary criticism, Grecian Vistas: Giacomo Leopardi and Romantic Hellas and A Companion for Darkness: Classical Twilights in the II Millennium, and co-author (with Francesco Rognoni) of the Italan translation fo Shelleys’’s poetic works (Opere poetiche, Meridiani, Mondadori: 2018). he has also published numerous articles in both English and italian. he has taught at Emory, Georgetown, and Columbia university. The author holds a degree in classics from the university of Rome; a degree in philosophy from the university of Rome; and a PhD in italian literature from Yale university. he is a passionate translator of poetry, who is currently working on a collection of poems that are rendered into Italian from languages including Classical Greek, Latin, Arabic, Classical Hebrew, English, and French. His collection of Italian poems is forthcoming.