Giovanni Capecchi is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. He has mainly focused on 19th- and 20th-century literature, with volumes dedicated among other things to the work of Giovanni Pascoli (Gli scritti danteschi di Giovanni Pascoli, 1997; the edition of Prose disperse, 2004; Voci dal nido infranto. Studi e documenti pascoliani, 2011), to Risorgimento literature (Le ombre della Patria. Capitoli ottocenteschi tra Foscolo e Carducci, 2015), and to literature of the Great War (Lo straniero nemico e fratello. Letteratura italiana e Grande Guerra, 2013; I fronti della scrittura. Letteratura e Grande Guerra, 2017). Regarding the 20th-century novel, he is the author of volumes on Palazzeschi and “lightness” (2003) and Lo scrittore come cartografo. Saggio su Marcello Venturi (2007). His areas of interest also include the topic of literary tourism: he published the book In the Footsteps of the Poets. Literature, Tourism, and Promotion of the Territory (2019, second expanded edition 2021), translated into English and Spanish, and directs the Research Center on Literary Tourism TULE.

Sabrina Stroppa has been a full professor of Italian Literature at the University for Foreigners of Perugia since October 1, 2021, after having served as a researcher and associate professor at the University of Turin (since 1999). She is the director of the Department of Italian Language, Literature, and Arts in the World (first term 2022-2025; second term from 2/14/2025, DR 529/2024). She has taught literary subjects, Latin and Greek in high schools, as well as literature teaching in teacher training programs (from 2001 to 2014). Her main research areas include Petrarch, Renaissance commentaries on Petrarchan works in the vernacular, 17th-century spiritual literature, Metastasio, and contemporary Italian poetry. She co-directs the international journal «Petrarchesca» (Class A: https://www.libraweb.net/riviste.php?chiave=120). She is a member of the editorial board of the journal «inOpera. Reading Exercises on Contemporary Texts» (https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/inopera) and of the journal «Configurazioni. Research on Contemporary Poetry» (https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/configurazioni/index). She is a member of the scientific committee of the journal «Stilistica e metrica italiana» (Class A: https://www.sismel.it/pubblicazioni/1958-stilistica-e-metrica-italiana-x...(2023)).