Giulio Ferroni, historian and literary critic, essayist, taught Italian Literature at the University of Rome La Sapienza until 2013, where he is now professor emeritus. His studies have focused on a wide range of authors in Italian literature (from Dante to Tabucchi), on literary theory, and on contemporary literary production. He is the author of the celebrated History of Italian Literature in 4 volumes (1991 and 2013) and of numerous critical and theoretical essays (including After the End. On the Posthumous Condition of Literature, 1996, new edition 2010). Among his most recent publications are The Last Poets: Giudici and Zanzotto (2013), The Impossible School (2015), The Solitude of the Critic (2019), Dante’s Italy. A Journey Through the Country of the “Comedy” (2019), A School for the Future (2021), Near and Far Nature. Humanism and the Environment from the Ancient Greeks to Artificial Intelligence (2024), winner of the 2025 The Bridge Award for Nonfiction, and Petrarch. The Forgotten Beauty (2025).