Words wefts: Studies in memory of Clara Borrelli

Anna Cerbo is full professor of Italian Literature at University of Naples “L’Orientale”. She is a scholar of literature from the 14th and 16th centuries (particularly Dante, Boccaccio, Campanella, Bruno and Regio) and also works on Leopardi and Luzi’s poetry. She wrote many essays on the rewriting of the myth. Her publications include an extended and revised edition of Metamorfosi del mito classico da Boccaccio a Marino (2012) and the critical editions of Sirenide (2014), a spiritual poem by Paolo Regio, and Lucrezia (2017), a tragedy by the same author. 

Carlo Vecce  is Professor of Italian Literature in the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, he taught also in the University of Pavia (School of Paleography and Musical Philology, Cremona), the D'Annunzio University of Chieti - Pescara and the University of Macerata. Abroad he was visiting professor at Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle) (2001) and University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (2009). His researches focused on Renaissance Literature and Civilization in Italy and Europe, mainly in the history of intellectual workshops in the dawn of Modern Age, and in relationships among languages (from literature to visual culture and cinema). Among his publications, Iacopo Sannazaro in Francia: scoperte di codici all'inizio del XVI secolo (Padova 1988), Leonardo (Roma, 2006), Piccola storia della letteratura italiana (Napoli, 2009), La biblioteca perduta. Il libri di Leonardo (2017).