Diego Saglia

Diego Saglia is Professor of English Literature at the University of Parma (Italy). His research focuses on Romantic literature and culture, also in connection to other European traditions. He is the author of several studies on Byron in Italian and English, including Byron and Spain: Itinerary in the Place of Writing (1996), Lord Byron e le maschere della scrittura (Roma: Carocci, 2009), and a number of essays published in international journals and chapters in edited collections. His co-edited book Byron and Italy (with Alan Rawes, 2017) was awarded the Elma Dangerfield Award in 2018; and his translation of Byron’s Manfred into Italian appeared in 2019. His latest monographs are European Literatures in Britain, 1815–1832: Romantic Translations (2019) and Modernità del Romanticismo: scrittura e cambiamento nella letteratura britannica 1780-1830 (2023). A member and current director of Italy’s Interuniversity Centre for the Study of Romanticism (CISR), he also sits on the advisory committee of Ravenna’s Museo Byron.