John Butcher

John Butcher is PhD in Compared Literature at the Academy of Italian-Germanic studies/ Akademie deutsch-italienischer Studien in Merano.
After studying post-united Italian literature (with monographies on Eugenio Montale, Domenico Rea, Vittoria Aganoor Pompilj e Domenico Gnoli), from 2011 he has been into Italian humanism, studying from Petrarca to Poliziano.
He also studies Latin poetry in the XV century and the relationships between humanists and Greece. Beside papers on Matteo Maria Boiardo and Giovanni Pontano, he wrote a short monograpy on Gregorio Tifernate’s poetry. Moreover, he has recently handled the editing of “Francesco Maria Staffa, Delle traduzioni dal greco in latino fatte da Gregorio e da Lilio Tifernati” (Umbertide, 2016).