Maurizio Campanelli is Full Professor of Filologia Italiana at Sapienza University of Rome and Custode of the Accademia dell’Arcadia, under the name Agesia Beleminio. His extensive scholarly work has focused primarily on the history of philology and the textual tradition of literary works from the Middle Ages, the Humanist period—Anonimo Romano, Valla, Perotti, Calderini, Poliziano, incunabula of Latin classics in Italy—and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with particular attention to the Arcadian context and its Latin production (without neglecting forays into other periods: Della Casa, Parini, Casti, Martellotti, as well as various contributions on the reception of Horace, including outside of Italy, and the census of sources for medieval history). He has been a visiting fellow at Harvard (Villa I Tatti), the Caledonian Research Foundation and Royal Society of Edinburgh, the University of Sydney, the Newberry Library in Chicago, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He has taken part in numerous national and international research projects and directed the project Linking Evidence. A Digital Approach to Medieval and Early Renaissance Rome. Among his most recent works are the book «Eja age dic satyram». La musa pedestre nel Bosco Parrasio (2021), I testi statutari del Commune d’Arcadia (with E. Appetecchi, C. Di Bari, A. Giacopini and M. Sassi, 2021), and Scienza e poesia scientifica in Arcadia (with E. Appetecchi, A. Ottaviani, P. Petteruti Pellegrino, 2022), all published by the Accademia dell’Arcadia.

Alessandro Pecoraro (1988) is chargé de cours at the University of Fribourg. His work focuses primarily on Italian literature between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He studied in Florence, where he obtained an international PhD (Florence–Paris–Bonn) in Philology, Italian Literature and Linguistics. At the University of Fribourg, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher and then as senior researcher on the project Ugo Foscolo, Epistolario (1825–1827), written with Professor Paolo Borsa (the project director), and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The resulting volume will form the tenth and final tome of the Epistolario in the National Edition of the Opere of the writer. Pecoraro’s research at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma is dedicated to the activity of the collector, scholar and official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Domenico Bianchini (1835–1919), and to the connections between collecting, literary studies and Italian foreign policy from Unification to the early twentieth century.