Views of Constantinople: Literary Imaginaries of the Gateway to the East at the Dawn of Modernity 

Luca Ferraro trained in Italy and France and is a Researcher in Italian Literature at the University of Naples Federico II. His main research interests focus on Orlando furioso and the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century traditions of chivalric, epic, and mock-heroic poetry; seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Neapolitan dialect literature; and representations of the Turk in sixteenth-century Italian literature. His most recent monograph, a thematic and narratological study of Orlando furioso, is entitled In labirintiche selve. L’Orlando furioso letto per gruppi di canti (Florence, Cesati, 2025).

Chiara Natoli is a Researcher in Italian Literature at the University of Palermo. Her research has focused on sixteenth-century poetry, particularly in relation to representations of the Ottoman–Christian conflict during the Renaissance, as well as on nineteenth-century Italian women writers and the literature of the Risorgimento. Among her publications is the monograph Petrarchismo politico (1525–1545). Palinsesti petrarcheschi nella lirica civile del Cinquecento (Lecce, Pensa MultiMedia, 2021).