Editorial team
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Stefano Milonia (journal coordinator)
Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Stefano Milonia works on medieval literature, music, and digital humanities. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project Musica Franca at Sapienza University of Rome. He has held research and teaching positions at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris), the University of Warwick, the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples, the University of Tübingen, and the American Academy in Rome. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and at McGill University. A co-founder and editor-in-chief of Polisemie from 2020 to 2023, he is currently the coordinator of the journal’s editorial team.
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Giulia Bassi
Università di Siena, Italy
Giulia Bassi is a post-doc researcher in the project of the University of Siena SCRIPTA: Women Writers and Poets in Tuscan Archives. She collaborated to the PRIN 2022 project Letters on the Net. Eugenio Montale epistolofrafo (1915-1981). She has written articles on Montale ('La stagione degli Ossi di seppia attraverso le lettere (1919-1925)', «L’ospite ingrato», 17, I, 2025) and 'L'attesa del libro: forma dell'opera e immagine d'autore nei carteggi di Montale con Einaudi e Mondadori' («Sinestesieonline», 48, XIV, 2025). She is interested in the work of Natalia Ginzburg, on whom she has published the monograph Con assoluta sincerità. Il lavoro editoriale di Natalia Ginzburg all’Einaudi (1943-52) (FUP, 2023, Premio dell’Accademia dei Lincei “Giuseppe Borgia” 2025). She has also written about Italo Calvino and Antonella Anedda. She is currently working on the edition of Natalia Ginzburg's letters for the Einaudi publishing house.
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Andrea Bongiorno
Aix-Marseille Université, France
Andrea Bongiorno defended his doctoral thesis in 2023 in Études italiennes at Aix-Marseille University, in cotutelle with the University of Siena, with funding from the Italo-French University. After serving as a chargé de cours at Université Paris Nanterre and as an Italian language lecturer at Aix-Marseille University, he currently teaches as a professeur agrégé in secondary education and as a chargé de cours at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. A specialist in twentieth-century and contemporary Italian poetry, his research focuses in particular on issues of poetic theory and criticism (see his monograph Poesia allo specchio) and on poetic representations of the environment. These interests have led him to organize several scholarly initiatives in France, Italy, and other European countries, to publish numerous journal articles, and to edit a number of collective volumes for Polisemie and other scholarly journals.
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Stefano Bottero
Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy
Stefano Bottero was born in Rome in 1994. A poet and literary scholar, he holds a PhD from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He is an editor of the journals Polisemie and Bezoar (Giulio Perrone Editore). The last student of Biancamaria Frabotta, he collaborates with Italian and international publishing ventures as a translator and critic.
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Mattia Caponi
Rome, Italy
After earning a bachelor’s degree in Humanities at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, he completed his master’s studies in Modern Philology at Sapienza University of Rome. His first scholarly essay, Giorgio Caproni tra ragione e Conte di Kevenhüller (Borgomanero, Giuliano Ladolfi Editore), was published in 2017 and won the literary prize for poetry, criticism, and translation Atelier, vent’anni di poesia in the Critical Studies section (2016). A contribution co-authored with Costantino Turchi appeared in La radice dell’inchiostro. Dialoghi sulla poesia, edited by Giorgiomaria Cornelio (Ancona, Argolibri, 2021).
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Mario Cianfoni
Genoa, Italy
Mario Cianfoni was educated at Sapienza University of Rome and holds a PhD in Italian Studies (30th cycle) as well as a specialization in Archival and Library Heritage. His main research interests include Italian poetry and prose from the late nineteenth century to the most recent contemporary period (Arrigo Boito, Luigi Gualdo, early twentieth-century literary Expressionism, Eugenio Montale, Giorgio Manganelli, Elsa Morante, Albino Pierro, Luigi Malerba, Lalla Romano, Guido Ceronetti), with particular methodological attention to authorial philology, archival studies, stylistic criticism, thematic criticism, and psychoanalytic criticism.
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Elena Casadio Tiozzi
Università di Bergamo, Italy
Elena Casadio Tozzi earned her degree in Italian Studies from the Università degli Studi di Bologna and is currently completing a PhD at the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Università degli Studi di Bergamo, in joint supervision with the Université de Strasbourg. Her research focuses on contemporary poetry and on the translation of poetic form, with particular attention to the work of the French poet Yves Bonnefoy. She also works on critique génétique and archival materials, and her broader research interests include the modernist novel and twentieth-century women writers.
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Carlo Londero
Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
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Samuele Maria Visalli
Rome, Italy
Samuele Maria Visalli holds a PhD in Romance Philology from Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests include Occitan, Old French, and Medieval Latin poetry.
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Giorgio Tranchida
Bologna, Italy
Born in Erice in 1995, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Modern Literature at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna under the supervision of Professor Marco Antonio Bazzocchi, focusing on the development of the theme of the body in the work of Valerio Magrelli and on its relationship with the author’s reflections on writing. He subsequently obtained a master’s degree in Italian Studies at the same university with a thesis on aphasia and the dissolution of language in Italian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century.
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Costantino Turchi
Rome, Italy
After earning a bachelor’s degree in Humanities at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” with a thesis on the influence of the strofe lunga alcioniana in Palazzeschi’s L’Incendiario, he completed his master’s studies in Modern Philology at Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis entitled La ripresa del sonetto. Particularly interested in formal issues in twentieth-century and contemporary literature, he has published several articles on recent literature that are available online.
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Arianna Saggio
Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Arianna Saggio is a PhD candidate in Italian Studies at Sapienza University of Rome (40th cycle), with a research project on Carlo Bernari. During and after her master’s degree programme, she completed research internships at the Archivio del Novecento in Rome, the Carlo Villa Archive, and the Carlo Bernari Fonds. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Italian literature, with a particular interest in authorial philology and the study of archival materials.
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Former collaborators: Edoardo Coppola, Claudio Pasquale Monopoli, Giulia Greco, Alessandra Frustaci
