Francesco Marco Aresu

Francesco Marco Aresu earned his Ph.D. in Italian literature (with a secondary field in Classical Philology) from Harvard University. He graduated in Letters from the Università degli Studi di Cagliari in Sardinia, and has Masters from Stanford University and Indiana University.

His areas of expertise are Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, manuscript studies and history of the book, medieval and humanistic philology, Sardinian literature, textual criticism, and literary theory.

He has published on Dante’s intertextuality, the first illustrated incunable of Dante’s Commedia, Italian metrics and metricology, Boccaccio’s Teseida, Petrarca’s sestinas, Baroque theater, Folengo’s metatextuality, Alberti’s early works, and figuralism in literature. He edited and translated eighteenth-century Latin hymns for the Centro di studi filologici sardi. He is editor for the Petrarchive and associate editor for Heliotropia. His first book, Manuscript Poetics: Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian Literature,

 came out in 2023 with the University of Notre Dame Press.

Before joining the Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, he taught Italian and Medieval Studies at Wesleyan University.