Alessandro Polcri (Ph.D. in Italian Literature, Yale University, 2004) is an Associate Professor at Fordham University, New York. His research focuses on the literature of the 15th-16th centuries (in particular in Florence and Ferrara) and on contemporary Italian Poetry. His publications include Luigi Pulci e la chimera. Studi sull’allegoria nel “Morgante” (2010) and studies on Teofilo Folengo, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Luigi Pulci, Marsilio Ficino, Cosimo de’ Medici, Martino Filetico. He has contributed numerous entries to the Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi, co-edited Rossella Bessi’s Umanesimo Volgare (2004), and recently co-edited the volume “Encyclopaedia Mundi”. Studi di Letteratura Italiana in onore di Giuseppe Mazzotta (2013).
