Roberto Vetrugno (1975) studied Modern Literature at the University of Pavia and was a student at Collegio Borromeo. He earned a PhD in Italian Linguistics and Stylistics at the University of Bologna with a dissertation dedicated to the language of Baldassarre Castiglione’s autograph letters. He was a research fellow and adjunct professor at the University of Pavia, a visiting professor at the University of Tripoli in 2013, and later a researcher at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland).

His main research focuses on Renaissance letter exchanges and the courtly language: together with others, he edited the collection of Castiglione’s letters (Turin, Einaudi 2016), to which he has dedicated several works (Baldassar Castiglione, in Autografi dei letterati italiani, Rome 2009; The Language of Baldassar Castiglione as Epistolographer, Novara 2010; among the latest, Castiglione in Milan, in Renaissance in Transit in Milan (1450-1525), Milan, University of Milan, 2021; The Archives of Castiglione, Rome, Viella, 2023; Courtly Lexicon. Glossary of the Letters of Baldassarre Castiglione, Bologna, I libri di Emil, 2024).

He has explored the linguistic aspects of the letter collections of Isabella d’Este, Lucrezia Borgia, Vittoria Colonna, and other noblewomen of the sixteenth century, and has compiled his research in the volume "Prègola la non me voglia dementichare". Linguistic Studies on Renaissance Women’s Letters, Milan, Franco Angeli 2025. Since 2016, he has been involved in research dedicated to advanced levels of Italian L2 learning, including from a diachronic perspective. Since 2019, as rector’s delegate for the documentation and book heritage of the university, he has promoted a project for the transcription, analysis, and digitization of the University’s historical archive, presented in the recent Treccani volume dedicated to the history of the Stranieri (Learner Profiles and Italian L2 in the Historical Archive of the University for Foreigners of Perugia, in The University for Foreigners of Perugia. History of a University Open to the World, edited by Salvatore Cingari, Valerio De Cesaris, Gabriele Rigano, Roberto Vetrugno, Rome, Treccani, 2024, pp. 441-460). Since 2019, he has been the Rector’s Delegate for the enhancement of the University’s documentary, bibliographic, and artistic heritage.

Since September 2022, he has been president of the three-year degree course in Literature "Italian Language and Culture in the Digital World" and founded DigitaLab, a meeting place for the presentation and implementation of research dedicated to digital culture.