Marco Cursi

Marco Cursi serves as a Lecturer at the Institute of Italian Studies within the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society at the University of Italian Switzerland, while concurrently holding a full professorship in Latin Paleography at the University of Naples – Federico II. His career bridges Swiss and Italian academic institutions with a focus on material text studies.

His research centers on paleography, codicology, and the historical evolution of book forms, analyzing manuscript traditions of key Italian authors including Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Leonardo da Vinci. He investigates textual transmission from wax tablets to digital media, emphasizing physical artifacts' role in literary interpretation.

Recent publications demonstrate cohesive interdisciplinary scholarship connecting Renaissance textual production with modern digital paradigms. His monographs on Boccaccio's Decameron, Bembo's Prose, and Leonardo's notebooks reveal methodological consistency in examining authorial practices through material evidence.

Professor Cursi has earned distinguished recognition:

• Member of the Comité international de paléographie latine (2019)
• Corresponding Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2021)

He leads the "Codices of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta tradition" research unit within the Prin 2017 project "Petrarch's ITINERA" and coordinates paleographic work for Catherine of Siena's epistolary edition. His committee roles include the "Pio Rajna" Research Center and journals "Studi sul Boccaccio," "Filologia e Critica," and "Segno e Testo."

Through these initiatives, he shapes contemporary scholarship on Italian literary heritage while advancing methodologies for manuscript analysis across historical periods.