Francesco Lucioli

Francesco Lucioli is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Sapienza University of Rome's Department of Modern Literature and Culture since November 2024. Previously, he served as Lecturer/Assistant Professor at University College Dublin (2016-2021), followed by a three-year Adjunct Lecturer position. His research focuses on Italian Renaissance literature and Neo-Latin studies, particularly examining word-image relationships, literature-religion intersections, conduct literature, and post-Ariosto chivalric poetry. He leads the TransLATINg research project on Italian-to-Latin literary translations and co-organizes Hortus europaeus, a triennial Italy-France-Germany conference series.

Key research contributions include:

• Three monographs on Renaissance themes
• Co-editing two modern editions of Renaissance texts
• Six collective volumes on humanist studies
• Current editorships at Archivio Italiano per la storia della pietà and LId’O

His scientific accolades include:

• 2013 Sapienza University Press Doctoral Thesis Award
• 2014-2015 Jean-François Malle Fellowship at Harvard's I Tatti
• 2016 Research Fellowship at Ludwig Boltzmann Institute

As active academic, he serves on editorial boards for multiple international journals and publication series while organizing annual Dublin Dante Summer Schools (2019-2021). His teaching spans Italian literature, Renaissance culture, and historical-literary analysis.