BANI Luca Erminio Bruno

Luca Bani is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bergamo. Since 2008 he has been a member of the scientific committees of the French Italian magazines “Italies” and “Transalpina”. Since 2014 he has been a member of the editorial committee of the "Saggi" and "Testi" series of CISAM and since 2022 he has been co-director of the "Acta e Studia" series published by the Cisalpino-Monduzzi publishing house. His research is aimed in particular at the literature and culture of the Lombard eighteenth century (Mascheroni, Paolina Secco Suardo Grismondi, Alessandro Verri); to the theme of the natural and urban landscape in nineteenth-twentieth century poetic and narrative texts (Carducci, Pascoli, d'Annunzio, Pavese, Moravia, Th. Mann, Ibsen, Woolf); to eighteenth-nineteenth-century epistolography (Bettinelli, Cesare Cantù, De Amicis, De Gubernatis) and more generally to the authors and movements following the unification of Italy (Scapigliatura, Verismo and Decadentism).