Giovanni Capecchi

Giovanni Capecchi is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. His work has focused mainly on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, with publications dedicated, among other things, to the works 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 literature from the Risorgimento period (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 twentieth-century novel, he is the author of volumes on Palazzeschi and "lightness" (2003), as well as Lo scrittore come cartografo. Saggio su Marcello Venturi (2007). One of his fields of interest is the topic of literary tourism: he published the book In the Footsteps of the Poets. Literature, Tourism, and Territorial Promotion (2019, second expanded edition 2021), translated into English and Spanish, and is the director of the TULE Research Center on Literary Tourism.