Piero Boitani is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the Sapienza University of Rome. A Fellow of the British Academy, of the Accademia dei Lincei and of the Medieval Academy of America, he received the Balzan Prize for Comparative Literature in 2016. General Editor of the Greek and Latin Writers series of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, he is the author of Anagnorisis: Scenes and Themes of Recognition and Revelation in Western Literature, Il grande racconto dei classici, Plato’s Poem and other books of criticism and poetry.
