Born in Perugia, 24/12/1956.
*MA degree in Polish Language and Literature (1983) at the University of Florence (Faculty of Letters and Philosophy).
*Ph.D. in Slavic Studies at the "Sapienza" University of Rome (1991).
*march 1992-october 1994 researcher/assistant professor at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, 2nd University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
*1994-: full professor of Slavistics (Polish Language and Literature) at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Rome "La Sapienza", where he has been Director of the Specialization Course in Literary Translation (1997-1999) and first Coordinator of the Ph.D. Programme in " Central and Eastern Europe Comparative Literature and Philological Studies " (2000-2003).
*2003-: honorary member of the Literary Association "Adam Mickiewicz", Warsaw.
*2005-:foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN - Warsaw) and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU - Cracow).
*2007: granted the "Gloria Artis" golden medal, the highest Polish cultural award, for his distinguished contributions to Polish culture.
*2009-2010: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanistic Sciences (FSU) at Villa Mirafiori, "Sapienza" University of Rome.
*2011-march 2017: Chairman of the Foreign Languages Library ("Sapienza"
University of Rome) Advisory Board.
*2012-: member of the Steering Committee of the University Theatre Center (CTA), University "La Sapienza".
*2013-january 2017: in charge of the curriculum "Intercultural Studies" within the Ph.D. Program "Scienze del testo" (Text Sciences), "Sapienza" University in Rome.
* 2014: granted the Polish Republic Merit Cross of Officer by the President Bronislaw Komorowski.
* 2014-2015: PhD honoris causa of the Jagellonian University Cracow (deliberation of the Academic Senate - 24 september 2014; awarding of the honours' degree on the 16th of june 2015 - Collegium Maius, Cracow)
* From I march 2016 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy" (Sapienza University of Rome)
* From january 2018 Academic Fellow for the Class of Slavistics of the Ambrosiana Academy in MIlan
* From january 2018 Member of the Scientific Board (Europe Department) of the Primoli Foundation - Rome
* From Ist novembre 2019 Director of the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies - (Sapienza University, Rome)
His main research interests for a number of years have been Polish and Slavic comparative studies (with special attention to the cultural and literary relations between Poland and Russia) and slavo-romance interrelations (see his much acclaimed essay on "Proust and Slavic literary theory and criticism" in the BUR-Rizzoli edition of In Search of Lost Time, 1991), especially Polish-Italian relations, with special regard to the Baroque period (see his studies on M. Sep Szarzynski, Sz. Zimorowic, J. A. Morsztyn, and particularly the 2 vols. critical edition of Adon [1993], the anonymous seventeenth-century version of L’Adone by G.B.Marino, and the monograph Polski Adon. O retoryce i poetyce przekladu, Izabelin 1997). He has also investigated 18th century Polish culture and writers (Krasicki, Kniaznin, Bohomolec), as well as 19th and 20th century literary movements and writers (Mickiewicz, Sienkiewicz; Futurism, Jasienski, Schulz, Gombrowicz, Milosz, Herbert, Wat, Kantor etc.) and other more recent authors.
At present his interests focus on theoretical and comparative issues, such as the main cruxes of literary history; "European" and “national canons”; translation studies; "minor" and "dominant" cultures and literatures; intercultural, gender and post-colonial studies; literature and music.
He is the author of over one hundred and fifty publications in several languages, including monographs, essays, articles.
He is the general editor of a new History of Polish Literature, published by Einaudi in 2004, and traslated into Polish in 2009 in a revised and enlarged edition by Ossolineum, Wroclaw. In collaboration with Agnieszka Stryjecka he is the author of the new Corso di lingua polacca, published by Hoepli Editore (Milano 2014)
He has translated into Italian works from Polish, Russian and English.
In 2002 he was awarded the Diploma of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland "for his high achievements in the promotion of Poland abroad”.
He is a member of the AIS (Italian Association of Slavists) and a founding member of AIP (Italian Association of Polonists, 2012-).
In 2007 he founded the journal "pl.it – rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi” (Italian review of Polish topics). He was the General Editor of the first three issues (a total amount of 2,300 pages).
2008-: General Editor of the series leo - "East / West Laboratory" for Lithos Publishing in Rome (20 volumes published from 2009 to 2015):
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2012-: member of the Editorial Board of the Humanities Section Series, "Sapienza University Press".
2013-: jury member for the first three editions of the poetical international Prize "W. Szymborska" (W. Szymborska Foundation, Cracow, Poland)
2014-: member of the Program Council of the new Cricoteka/Museum "T.Kantor" (Cracow)
He is the only foreign member in the Editorial Board of the oldest literary journal in Polish philology: "Pamietnik Literacki" (Institute of Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences), and a member of Scientific-Editorial Boards of several prestigious philological and cultural magazines in Poland: "Prace Filologiczne" and "Przeglad Humanistyczny" (Warsaw University), "Wiek XIX" ("Adam Mickiewicz" Association - Warsaw), "Teksty Drugie" and "Biuletyn Polonistyczny" (IBL - Polish Academy of Sciences), "Postscriptum polonistyczne" (Katowice - University of Silesia).
He is a member of the Scientific Committe of the IVth World Congress of Polish Studies (Katowice 2016).
For the list of publications in chronological order see: "Curriculum italiano".