Roberto Vetrugno

Roberto Vetrugno (1975) studied Modern Literature at the University of Pavia and was a student at Collegio Borromeo. He obtained his Ph.D. in Italian Linguistics and Stylistics at the University of Bologna, with a thesis dedicated to the language of the autograph letters of Baldassarre Castiglione. He has worked as a research fellow and adjunct professor at the University of Pavia, in 2013 as a visiting professor at the University of Tripoli, and later as a researcher at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland).

His main research activity concerns Renaissance correspondences and courtly language: together with others, he edited the edition of Castiglione’s epistolary (Turin, Einaudi 2016), to which he has devoted several contributions (Baldassar Castiglione, in Autografi dei letterati italiani, Rome 2009; The Language of Baldassar Castiglione as Epistolographer, Novara 2010; more recently, 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 delved into the linguistic aspects of the letters of Isabella d’Este, Lucrezia Borgia, Vittoria Colonna and other noblewomen of the sixteenth century, and has collected his research in the volume "Prègola la non me voglia dementichare". Linguistic studies on the letters of Renaissance women, Milan, Franco Angeli 2025. Since 2016, he has engaged in research dedicated to the advanced levels of learning Italian as a second language, also from a diachronic perspective. Since 2019, as the rector’s delegate for the university’s documentary and library heritage, he has promoted a project to transcribe, analyze, and digitize the university’s historical archive, illustrated in the recent Treccani volume dedicated to the university’s history (Profiles of Learners and Italian L2 in the Historical Archive of the University for Foreigners of Perugia, in The University for Foreigners of Perugia. The 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 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 Letters "Italian Language and Culture in the Digital World" and has founded DigitaLab, a meeting place for the presentation and implementation of research dedicated to digital culture.