Rossano Pestarino

Tobia Raffaele Toscano teaches Italian literature at University of Naples Federico II. Even though he focuses of many research fields (Dante, the academies in the XVIII century, Gabriele Rossetti’s “Carteggi”), he started to fucus more and more on the history of Neapolitan literature between the XV and the XVI centuries, publishing many volumes (Letterati corti accademie. La letteratura a Napoli nella prima metà del Cinquecento, Napoli, Loffredo, 2000; L’enigma di Galeazzo di Tarsia. Altri studi sulla letteratura a Napoli nel Cinquecento, ibidem, 2004; Antonio Terminio da Contursi poeta umanista del XVI secolo, prefazione di Amedeo Quondam, Contursi Terme (SA), il Fauno edizioni, 2009) and handling the reprintigs of various autohors such as Bernardino Martirano, Vittoria Colonna, Diego Sandoval di Castro e Isabella di Morra. After completing Luigi Tansillo’s “Canzoniere” new edition, which had been stopped in 1926 due to Erasmo Pèrcopo death, he started in 2010 (the fifth centenary on Tansillo’s birth), the complete edition of his works, such as “Capitoli giocosi e satirici”, ( Carmine Boccia and Tobia R. Toscano, Rome, Bulzoni, 2010); “le Rime” (Tobia R. Toscano and Erika Milburn and Rossano Pestarino, Rome, Bulzoni, 2011) and “L’egloga e i poemetti” (Tobia R. Toscano, Carmine Boccia and Rossano Pestarino, Naples, Paolo Loffredo Iniziative Editoriali, 2017)