Paola Italia
Crolla Amato Prize 2019 | Literary Studies
Panel Judge
Paola Italia (Milan, 1966) is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna.
Paola studied at Pavia, Ginevra and Pisa, and taught Italian Literature at the University of Siena and Roma Sapienza before moving to Bologna.
Paola’s research spans Italian Literature in the modern period (1700-1900), with a specific interest in Authorial Philology. She has worked extensively on the 19th century (especially Leopardi’s Canti and Manzoni’s Fermo e Lucia) and the 20th (focusing on authors such as Gadda, Manganelli, Savinio, Bassani, and Tobino).
With Giorgio Pinotti and Claudio Vela, she is now the editor of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s works for Adelphi Edizioni – editions to date include: Accoppiamenti giudiziosi (2011); Eros e Priapo’s new critical edition based on the first draft (2016), and La Cognizione del dolore (2017).
