Andrea Ceccherelli is Full Professor of Polish Language and Literature at the University of Bologna. His main fields of research are Polish XVI-XVII-c. and XX-c. literature, Polish-Italian literary contacts, translation and self-translation. He is the author of a monograph about Piotr Skarga’s Lives of Saints (Od Suriusa do Skargi. Studium porównawcze o “Żywotach świętych”, 2003) and of the chapters about Renaissance and Modernism in the History of Polish Literature published in 2003 by Einaudi in Italy and in 2009 by Ossolineum in Poland, as well as co-author of the book about Wisława Szymborska’s poetry Szymborska. Un alfabeto del mondo (2016). He is also a translator of Polish contemporary literature (i.a. Cz. Miłosz, Z. Herbert, J. Twardowski, A. Swirszczynska, some poems by W. Szymborska and A. Zagajewski) as well as of Szymborska’s biographies Pamiątkowe rupiecie by Anna Bikont and Joanna Szczęsna and Nic zwyczajnego O Wislawie Szymborskiej by Michal Rusinek. He coordinated several European projects about multilingualism (E-LOCAL, E-LOCAL for all, ILOCALAPP). He was the dean of the School of Languages and Literatures of the University of Bologna from 2016 to 2018