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Piero Boitani (born 1947) is an Italian literary critic.[1][2][3]
Born in Rome, Boitani received his Ph.D. fromCambridge while teaching there and has taught in theUniversity of Pescara andUniversity of Perugia. He is Professor Emeritus ofComparative Literature at theSapienza University of Rome and has taught at theGregorian University and at theUniversity of Italian Switzerland.
He was the President of the European Society forEnglish Studies from 1989 to 1995 (now Founding President), as well as becoming aFellow of the British Academy, the Accademia dei Lincei, theAcademia Europaea, the Polish Academy of Arts, the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, the Accademia dell’Arcadia, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Dante Society of America. In 2002 he received from theAccademia dei Lincei theFeltrinelli Prize forliterary criticism, in 2010 the De Sanctis Prize, and in 2016 the Balzan Prize for Comparative Literature.[4] He is theliterary editor of the Greek and Latin classics series,Fondazione Valla.
Boitani has published, among others, the following volumes:
He also edited and contributed to a number of other works, including:
He has edited and translated into Italian works including:
