Paola Maria Carmela Italia

Paola Italia was born and lives in Milan. She has taught at the Universities of Siena and Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and has held courses at the Universities of Lausanne, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Wellesley College and Montreal. She has worked on various authors and themes from the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular focus on the study and publication of authors' variants (Che cos'è la filologia d'autore, written with Giulia Raboni, Carocci, 2024 (14th ed.), translated in 2021 for OBP and available in OA), including Manzoni and Leopardi. In the 20th century, she has studied Savinio (Il pellegrino appassionato, Sellerio, 2004, Domenico Rea Prize 2005), Bassani (Opere, Mondadori, 20012), Tobino (Opere scelte, Mondadori, 2007) and Gadda (Come lavorava Gadda, Rome, Carocci, 2017; Il Gaddabolario, 2022 [Costa Smeralda Prize 2023]). Together with Giorgio Pinotti and Claudio Vela, she is responsible for the new Adelphi edition of Gadda's Opere. In 2024, she won the “Manara Valgimigli” Prize, and in 2025, the Viareggio “Tobino” Prize.