Andrea Ceccherelli is Full Professor of
Polish Language and Literature at the University of Bologna. Born
in Florence on 13th February 1970, in 1995 he graduated at the
University of Florence in Polish Literature with a dissertation
about the poet and prosewriter Tadeusz Micinski. In 1995/96 he
spent the whole academic year in Wroclaw thanks to a scholarship
financed by the University of Florence. From 1996 to 2000 he
attended the doctoral course in Slavistics at the University of
Rome "La Sapienza" and carried out his researches in Warsaw
and Cracow. In 2001 he obtained the PhD degree discussing a
dissertation on the XVIth-century "Lives of Saints"
composed by the Polish Jesuit Piotr Skarga. From 2001 to 2004
he worked as "ricercatore" at the University of Lecce. Since 2000
he has been teaching Polish Language and Literature at the
University of Bologna. His main fields of research are Polish
XVI-XVII-c. and XX-c. literature, Polish-Italian literary
contacts, translation and self-translation. He is the author of a book about W. Szymborska's work (Szymborska. Un alfabeto del mondo), published in 2016. He is also a translator from Polish
into Italian (Milosz, Herbert, Twardowski, some poems
by Szymborska and Zagajewski). His translation of
Milosz's Road-side Dog (Il cagnolino lungo la strada,
Adelphi Edizioni) was awarded the prize "Leone Traverso - Opera
prima" in Monselice in 2003. He was dean of the School of Languages and Literature, Interpreting and Translation of the University of Bologna in 2016-2018.
