Rino Modonutti is associate professor of Medieval Latin literature and Medieval et Humanistic Philology at the University of Padova, where he previously held the position of visiting professor of Medieval and Humanistic Philology. In 2010 he earned a Ph. D. in Medieval Latin Literature and Philology from S.I.S.M.E.L., and in 2014 a second one in Italian Studies from the University of Padova. His main research interests lie in Medieval historiography and encyclopedism, and in the tradition of Classical Latin Literature in the Late Middle Ages and in Italian Humanism. He published the critical editions of Albertino Mussato’s Ludovicus Bavarus (Ed. nazionale dei testi della storiografia umanistica, 2015) and De gestis Italicorum post Henricum septimum Cesarem (books 1-7) (Ed. naz. dei testi della storiografia umanistica-Rerum Italicarum scriptores, III serie, 2018), and the monograph Fra Giovanni Colonna e la storia antica. Da Adriano ai Severi (Padova, CLEUP, 2013). He coedited the volumes «Moribus antiquis sibi me fecere poetam». Albertino Mussato nel VII centenario dell’incoronazione poetica (1315-2015), eds. R. Modonutti, E. Zucchi, Firenze, S.I.S.M.E.L. Ed. del Galluzzo, 2017; L’Umanesimo di Sicco Polenton. Padova, la “Catinia”, i santi, gli antichi, eds. G. Baldissin Molli, F. Benucci, R. Modonutti, Padova, CSA, 2020; and the critical edition Sicco Polenton, Vite dei moderni. Mussato, Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, ed. trans. comm. L. Banella, R. Modonutti, Padova, CLEUP, 2020. His articles have appeared in «Filologia mediolatina», «Italia medioevale e umanistica», «Studi sul Boccaccio», «Segno e testo», «Filologia e critica», «Studi medievali», «Medioevo e rinascimento». Since 2013 he is member of the editorial board of BISLAM Bibliotheca scriptorum Latinorum medii recentiorisque aevi (S.I.S.M.E.L.); since 2007 he collaborates with C.A.L.M.A. Compendium auctorum latinorum medii aevi (since 2019 as lector), and with «Medioevo latino. Bollettino bibliografico della cultura europea da Boezio a Erasmo» (since 2020 as editor of the Paduan editorial team). He is member of the S.I.S.M.E.L. International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture, of the Renaissance Society of America and the American Boccaccio Association.

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