Marco Santagata

Marco Santagata studied at University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore. Claudio Giunta, Michelangelo Zaccarello and Roberta Cella are recorded as having studied under Marco Santagata. The recorded working language is Italian and French. The field of work recorded is Italian literature, creative and professional writing and history of literature. Places of work recorded in the authority are Pisa. Employment is recorded with University of Pisa. Distinctions recorded are Premio Campiello and Stresa Prize.

• Name — Marco Santagata • Born — 28 April 1947 • Birthplace — Zocca, Italy • Died — 9 November 2020 • Place of death — Pisa, Italy • Resting Place — Cimitero di Zocca • Occupation — Academic Writer

Santagata studied classical literature at the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, where he graduated in 1970. He became a professor of literature at Ca' Foscari University of Venice before returning to his alma mater, the University of Pisa, in 1984 as a professor of philology, literature, and linguistics. He was one of the most important Italian specialists of Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio and Petrarch. Marco Santagata died in Pisa on 9 November 2020, at the age of 73, after contracting COVID-19 amid the ongoing pandemic in Italy.

• Papà non era comunista (1996) • Il copista (2000) • Il maestro dei santi pallidi (2002) • L'amore in sé (2006) • Il salto degli Orlandi (2007) • Voglio una vita come la mia (2008) • Come donna innamorata (2015) • Il movente è sconosciuto (2018)

• Petrarca e i Colonna (1988) • Amate e amanti. Figure della lirica amorosa fra Dante e Petrarca (1999) • La letteratura nei secoli della tradizione. Dalla Chanson de Roland a Foscolo (2007) • Manuale di letteratura italiana contemporanea (2007) • L'io e il mondo. Un'interpretazione di Dante (2011) • Dante. Il romanzo della sua vita (2012), (Dante, The Story of His Life, trans. Richard Dixon, 2016) • Guida all'Inferno (2013) • L'amoroso pensiero. Petrarca e il romanzo di Laura (2014) • Pastorale modenese. Boiardo, i poeti e la lotta politica (2016) • Il racconto della Commedia. Guida al poema di Dante (2017) • Il poeta innamorato. Su Dante, Petrarca e la poesia amorosa medievale (2017) • Boccaccio. Fragilità di un genio (2019) • Le donne di Dante (2021)