Giovanni Capecchi is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. His work has focused mainly on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, with publications dedicated, among other things, to the works of Giovanni Pascoli (Gli scritti danteschi di Giovanni Pascoli, 1997; the edition of Prose disperse, 2004; Voci dal nido infranto. Studi e documenti pascoliani, 2011), to literature from the Risorgimento period (Le ombre della Patria. Capitoli ottocenteschi tra Foscolo e Carducci, 2015), and to literature of the Great War (Lo straniero nemico e fratello. Letteratura italiana e Grande Guerra, 2013; I fronti della scrittura. Letteratura e Grande Guerra, 2017). Regarding the twentieth-century novel, he is the author of volumes on Palazzeschi and "lightness" (2003), as well as Lo scrittore come cartografo. Saggio su Marcello Venturi (2007). One of his fields of interest is the topic of literary tourism: he published the book In the Footsteps of the Poets. Literature, Tourism, and Territorial Promotion (2019, second expanded edition 2021), translated into English and Spanish, and is the director of the TULE Research Center on Literary Tourism.

Sabrina Stroppa has been a full professor of Italian Literature at the University for Foreigners of Perugia since October 1, 2021, after having worked as a researcher and associate professor at the University of Turin (since 1999). She is the director of the Department of Italian Language, Literature and Arts in the World (first term 2022–2025; second term from 2/14/2025, DR 529/2024). She has taught literary subjects, Latin, and Greek in high schools, and literature teaching methodology in teacher qualification programs (from 2001 to 2014). Her main research areas include Petrarch, Renaissance commentaries on Petrarch's vernacular works, seventeenth-century spiritual literature, Metastasio, and contemporary Italian poetry. She co-directs the international journal «Petrarchesca» (rank A: https://www.libraweb.net/riviste.php?chiave=120). She is a member of the editorial board of the journal «inOpera. Exercises in Reading Contemporary Texts» (https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/inopera) and of the journal «Configurazioni. Research on Contemporary Poetry» (https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/configurazioni/index). She is a member of the scientific committee of the journal «Stilistica e metrica italiana» (rank A: https://www.sismel.it/pubblicazioni/1958-stilistica-e-metrica-italiana-x...(2023) ).