Benedict Buono

Benedict Buono is a Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, affiliated with the Faculty of Philology and the Department of Classical, French and Italian Philology. He holds a Ph.D. from the same institution (1995), focusing on 16th-century Italian and Piedmontese linguistic studies, specifically analyzing Count Matteo di San Martino e di Vische's grammatical and poetic observations. His research explores Italian philology, Renaissance cultural exchanges between Italy and Spain, and historical linguistics.

His work emphasizes textual analysis of early modern Italian literature, archival studies of Galician and Spanish libraries, and the study of language pedagogy. Notable projects include investigations into the circulation of Italian cultural texts in the Iberian Peninsula and the influence of Italian Renaissance literature on Spanish intellectual traditions.

Buono has published extensively on topics ranging from poetic satire in provincial Italian works to the lexicological intersections between Galician and Italian culinary terms. His contributions to the study of early modern grammar manuals and dialectal variations in liturgical texts highlight his interdisciplinary approach to philology.