Francesco Marco Aresu earned his PhD in Italian (secondary field in Classical Philology) from Harvard University. He studied Italian literature and Classics at the Università degli studi di Cagliari in Sardinia, and has Masters from Stanford University and Indiana University. He wrote on Italian metrics and metricology (Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies, 2019), Boccaccio's Teseida (Medioevo letterario d'Italia, 2018 [2019]), Petrarch’s sestinas (Mediaevalia, 2018; Textual Cultures, 2012), Baroque theater (for the miscellany Tales of Unfulfilled Times, 2017), Folengo’s metatextuality (for the miscellany Folengo in America, 2013), Alberti's early works (Studi di Erudizione e di Filologia Italiana, 2015), and figuralism in literature (in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 2012). He edited and translated 18th century Latin hymns for the Centro di studi filologici sardi, where he has been an editor and translator. He is currently completing his first book, entitled Scriptor in Fabula: Materiality and Textuality in the Age of Dante. His areas of expertise are Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, manuscript culture and history of the book, textual criticism, and literary theory. And he is a Cancer.