(Turin, 1939). Doctor in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Pisa. He is currently a professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Some of its titles are: Historia nocturna. Un desciframiento del aquelarre (1989), El juez y el historiador. Acotaciones al margen del caso Sofri (1991), No island is an island. Four Visions of English Literature from a World Perspective (2000). He has received the Aby Warburg Prize (1992), the Viareggio Prize (1988), and the Salento Prize (2002).