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He graduated from the Special School for Archivists and Librarians of Rome (2003), he obtained an International Research Doctorate at the University of Florence (2007). He directs the CERB Research Center in Bibliography, established at the Department of Classical and Italian Philology, and is a member of the Scientific committees of the Humanities Library and of the «E. Raimondi» Library of the University of Bologna.

He belongs to the colleges of the Research Doctorate in Literary and Philological Cultures, Book Sciences curriculum (University of Bologna) and of the Research Doctorate in Documentary, Philological, Linguistic and Literary Sciences, Book and Documentary Sciences curriculum (Sapienza University of Rome).

Consultant for public and private libraries, he is co-editor of the international magazine TECA. In 2015 he founded the Abbazia di San Pietro Study Center, Modena, for the study and enhancement of the book and documentary heritage of the Benedictine monastery.

Adjunct Professor from the academic year 2006/07 at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, he taught Archivistics, Bibliography and Librarianship and held workshops within three-year and master's degree courses. He is a member of the Internship Commission of the LM in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistic Sciences of the School of Letters and Cultural Heritage, Bologna. Between September 2012 and February 2013 he was visiting professor at the University of Salamanca (Spain). He lectures in Italian and foreign universities.

He acts as a referee for articles in scientific journals and on behalf of Doctoral Schools, in Italy and in Europe.

He edited catalogs of ancient book collections and conducted research on the history of libraries from Humanism to the twentieth century. He is interested in the history of books and publishing. He has also dealt with aspects of librarianship, with a preference for the theory and technique of catalogs and for the enhancement of ancient collections. He collaborates with the main Italian and foreign magazines in the sector.

He is one of the founding members of the Italian Society of Bibliographic and Library Sciences (SISBB), Rome, where he is an auditor.

He has held corporate positions within the AIB, the Italian Library Association, of which he has been a member since 1997 and, since 2013, associated under law 4/2013. Corresponding member of the National History Deputation for the ancient Modenese provinces, of the National History Deputation for the Romagna provinces, of the Pascolian Academy; ordinary member of the Bibliographical Society of London and of the SEMYR, Seminario de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, Salamanca.

Former full professor of Italian Literature and Medieval Italian Literature at the University of Bologna at the Department of Classical and Italian Philology. From 2002 to 2008 and from 2010 to 2015 he was director of the Department of Italian Studies, which in 2012 became the Department of Classical and Italian Philology. He is one of the founders and co-editors of online literary magazines with wide international circulation: Griseldaonline, Ossigeno nascente: atlas of contemporary Italian poets, DNA Camporesi. Member of various cultural institutions, including the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani, president of the Gramsci Emilia-Romagna Foundation, president of the Centro di Studi Alfieriani in Asti as well as secretary for two terms of ADI (Association of Italian Italianists). He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Classense Library of Ravenna. Among his interests, medieval culture (among which several and important Dante contributions stand out), humanistic and Renaissance literature (he edited, among other things, the main works of Niccolò Machiavelli, of which he is one of the greatest experts), culture and art of the eighteenth century, the history of historiography, the periodization of literature, comparative literature, the history of criticism, the teaching of literature with the care of successful manuals and anthologies. He has collaborated, with various essays, on the Italian literature edited by Einaudi and directed by Alberto Asor Rosa. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Enciclopedia Machiavelli Treccani for which, among other things, he wrote the entry dedicated to the Prince. He edited the edition of the main works of Machiavelli and Guicciardini for Bollati Boringhieri and Mursia. He coordinated the volumes dedicated to Florentine Histories and historical writings for the National Edition of Machiavelli's Works at the Salerno publishing house. He has held courses and conferences in many European and non-European countries and his works have been translated into various languages.

Graduated in Classics with 110/110 cum laude from the University of Bologna, with a thesis on the moral philosophy of Emanuele Tesauro (supervisor: Prof. Ezio Raimondi). She obtained the qualification to teach literary and Latin subjects in high schools and master's institutes and to teach literary subjects in secondary education institutions. She currently teaches at the «Augusto Righi» State Scientific High School in Bologna. Winner of a scholarship, she attended the 'High culture' course entitled Letteratura e Arte. Iconologia e Tipologia degli stili held at the Cini Foundation in Venice. She then graduated from the Postgraduate School of Modern Philology of the University of Bologna (grade: 70/70 cum laude; supervisor Prof. Ezio Raimondi) with a thesis on the translations of Emanuele Tesauro's moral philosophy, later published in Bologna ( CLUEB, 1987). She obtained the qualifications ASN II bracket in 'Italian literature, literary criticism, comparative literature' (competition sector 10F / 1, round 2012) and ASN II bracket in 'Italian literature, literary criticism, comparative literature' (competition sector 10F / 1, session 2016)

She has collaborated with scholars of different traditions and from multidisciplinary perspectives in catalogs for exhibitions, monographic issues of magazines, 'voices' of thematic encyclopedias, seminars (especially on short forms) and transcription of unpublished scientific correspondence. She participated as a speaker in the Advanced Training Course Insegnare la letteratura italiana nella scuola oggi: temi, metodi, problemi, promoted and directed by prof. Giuseppe Ledda in the Department of Classical and Italian Philology of the University of Bologna. She has mainly dealt with moralists and scientists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from Emanuele Tesauro and Mario Bettini to Virgilio Malvezzi and Alessandro Marchetti. She then became interested in the structures and purposes of the educational programs of the Society of Jesus, in Italy and in Europe, as well as those of the University of Bologna and the Galilean school. She has studied the genre of biography and 'short forms' such as the aphorism, epigram, thoughts, maxims, fables and apologues, in their evolution from antiquity to modern literature, especially in the eighteenth century; she investigated issues related to seventeenth-eighteenth-century political publishing. She was also oriented towards the reception of Latin Boccaccio and political-military reflection, from Niccolò Machiavelli to Raimondo Montecuccoli and Francesco Algarotti.

She has taken part in numerous national and international conferences focused on the discussion of the intersections between Italian literature and European cultures, such as, for example, the meetings of the Lecturae Dantis bononiensis, initiated by the Academy of Sciences of Bologna. She collaborates with the magazines Intersections, Lettere Italiane and Filologia e Critica, where her contributions on the scientific school of Giambattista Riccioli, Daniello Bartoli and Gian Domenico Cassini appeared. She has produced an essay entitled Un «uomo di lettere». In margine a un recente libro di Bruno Basile. On the sidelines of a recent book by Bruno Basile, for Lettere italiane, 2018, 3, pp. 566-581 and another entitled Tra Pulcinella e Newton. Linguaggi del gioco e stili della scienza in Francesco Algarotti for «Griseldaonline», 2018, 17, pp. 1-15. 

She is a member of the following associations: AICC-Italian Association of Classical Culture-Delegation of Bologna; ADI-sd, Didactic Section of the Association of Italian Italianists. She is also a member of the editorial board of the journals Quaderni di semantica and TECA.

Graduated in Literature from the University of Bologna with a thesis in Librarianship and Bibliography, she participated in the national research project COFIN 2003 Oltre il testo. Dinamiche storiche paratestuali nel processo tipografico-editoriale in Italia. 

Librarian at the University of Ferrara since 2005, since 2008 her interests have focused on the management of ancient and valuable collections preserved in the libraries of the University, also based on the skills acquired thanks to the university masters in Restauro e caratterizzazione di opere manoscritte e libri a stampa in Antico Regime Tipografico (University of Bologna, 2006) and in Cultural management (University of Ferrara, 2016).

PhD student in Literary and Philological Cultures at the University of Bologna since 2018, her research concerns the enhancement of special collections in university libraries, in particular from the perspective of the Third Mission and with attention to the Digital Humanities sector. 

Since 2018 she has been a member of the editorial board of the magazine TECA and collaborates in some activities of the chair of Bibliography and Librarianship, History of the Book and History of Libraries of the University of Bologna.

After graduating in Italian Studies at the University of Bologna with a thesis on the library of Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658-1730), she continued his research on the Bolognese scientist and patron during her doctorate in Historical and Documentary Studies at the University of Milan. Her project aimed to reconstruct Marsili's international correspondence network, with particular reference to his relations with the professionals linked to the press and book trade.

In 2013 she was third classified at the “Lazzaro Spallanzani” Prize with an essay entitled La «sceltissima biblioteca» di Luigi Ferdinando Marsili. Profilo di una raccolta libraria tra Sei e Settecento. In 2014 she obtained the Scaliger Fellowship at the University of Leiden with a research project on the relationship between Marsili and the Dutch scientist Herman Boerhaave. She has participated in international seminars and conferences, including the 2nd International Conference C.R.E.S. - Centro di ricerca sugli Epistolari del Settecento (25-27 February 2015).

In 2017 she obtained the title of PhD and since January 2018 she has been in charge of a decentralized library of the Municipality of Bologna.

Former full professor of Bibliography, Librarianship, History of Books and Publishing at the University of Genoa, she has also taught book disciplines at the University of Udine. She has participated in seminars and conferences in Italy and abroad, among other things obtaining research grants from the German Herzog August Bibliothek and the English Bibliographical Society, collaborating through various national projects on the history of the circulation of books and publishing. She dedicates himself to the European and extra-European editorial and intellectual panorama, investigating the forms of production and the geographical, economic and distribution dynamics. Among her works, the critical edition of the unpublished typographic manual by Niccolò Capaci and the monograph on the library of Alfonso II Del Carretto marquis of Finale, with the edition of the relative manuscript catalog. She is currently publishing research on typography in Spanish and on private libraries of the old regime. She has collaborated and collaborates with some important scientific journals in the sector, such as «Il Bibliotecario», «Bibliotheca», «Bibliothecae.it», of which he is co-editor, «Paratesto», «TECA» and «Almanacco bibliografico», «The Library. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society». She works as reviewer for the journals «The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America», «Italian Studies»(Oxford), «Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana», «Fabbrica del Libro» and «La Bibliofilia».

Full professor since 2016, she teaches Italian Literature and Medieval and Humanistic Literature and Philology at the University of Bologna, where she was, from 2017 to 2020, among the members of the Panel for Area 10 of the Commission for the Evaluation of Research of the University (VRA).

Her main research topics concern Petrarch, medieval humanistic and Renaissance literature, in particular the tradition of commenting on the classics, with a hermeneutic and exegetical attention to the didactic practice of Italian literature and insights into Bolognese humanism. Her studies are nourished by the close connection between philology and criticism, making the literary text dialogue with the other disciplines, first of all with the figurative arts.

She is co-director of the international magazine «Ecdotica», as well as of several series such as «Cultura umanistica e saperi moderni» (Pàtron), «Arezzo e Certaldo» (Antenore), «Letteratura Italiana. Saggi e Strumenti» (Franco Angeli).

She is the scientific director of the A.R.C.E. Research Center (Archivio Ricerche Carteggi Estensi), which is based in the Department of Classical and Italian Philology of the University of Bologna

She is on the scientific committee of the series «Filologia e Letterature italiane. Studi e testi», by Edizioni dell'Orso in Alessandria, and «DUABUS ANCORIS» (directed by Davide Canfora and published by the Aragno publishing house) and by the specialized magazines «Archivum mentis» and «TECA»; she collaborates with various periodicals including «Studi e problemi di critica testuale» and with the publishing houses Bruno Mondadori, Einaudi, Carocci, Treccani.

Full Professor of Industrial Applications of Plasmi at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, he is a member of the Department of Industrial Engineering (DIN), of the Interdepartmental Industrial Research Center for Mechanics and Advanced Materials (CIRI- MAM), the Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research on Agro-food (CIRI-AGRO), the Study and Research Center on Gynecological Neoplasms and the National Interuniversity Consortium for Materials Science and Technology (INSTM).

He was President of the International Plasma Chemistry Society (2016-2017); he sits on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Plasma Medicine, for which he is also Secretary, and is a member of various sector committees internationally. Since the mid-90s of the last century he has studied the literary and human path of the great tragic poet Vittorio Alfieri from a documentary and biographical point of view, having also contributed to the creation of two of the exhibitions held on the occasion of the celebrations of the bicentenary of death and 250 years from birth (1999-2003), at the Royal Library of Turin (in 2001) and the Laurentiana Library of Florence (in 2003). Always a passionate bibliographer and collector, he boasts a huge collection of book and documentary materials relating to Vittorio Alfieri. Together with others, he edited the volume relating to the exhibition Per far di bianca carta carta nera. First editions and Alfieri relics, Turin, Royal Library, 29 November-29 December 2001 (Savigliano, Editrice Artistica Piemontese, 2001) and contributed to the volume ll Poeta e il Tempo. La Biblioteca Laurenziana per Vittorio Alfieri, edited by Clara Domenici, Paola Luciani, Roberta Turchi, volume relating to the exhibition held in the Laurentiana Library, Florence 8 October 2003 - 4 January 2004, (Florence, Tipografia Latini, 2003); he contributed to the literature on Vittorio Alfieri with interventions in specialized journals such as «Annali alfieriani», «Studi italiani», «Seicento e Settecento», «La Parola del Testo», «Studi e problemi di critica testuale». In 2016 he attended a study conference in honor of the scholar, bibliographer and philologist Clemente Mazzotta, his dear friend, organized by the University of Bologna ten years after his death.

She holds a three-year degree in Archival and Library Heritage at the University of Bologna (Ravenna Campus), a Master's Degree in Archival and Library Science at the «La Sapienza» University of Rome and a Degree in Archivistics, Paleography and Diplomatics at the State Archive in Modena. She is now PhD student in Literary and Philological Cultures at the University of Bologna and expert on the subject Archivistics, Bibliography and Librarianship (M-STO / 08) at the same University. She attended numerous specialization courses in Italy and abroad and two Advanced Training Courses at the University of Bologna (Archivi e Biblioteche in Rete: inventari e cataloghi) and at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Tecnologie applicate alla catalogazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio librario).

From 2012 to 2019 she worked on the Incunabula collection of the Municipal Library «Giuseppe Taroni» of Bagnacavallo (catalogue soon to be published). She also organized bibliographic exhibitions aimed to enhance the rare book collections of the library. She is MEI Editors of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) for the cataloguing of books printed in the XVth century in the Material Evidence in Incunabula database. 

Her research interests are focused on the history of fifteenth-century printing, on the history of book binding and on the history of illumination and woodcut illustration in early printed books. She is currently working on the Bolognese incunabula production in vernacular and Ugo Ruggeri's typographical annals. She has publications in scientific journals, participations in international conferences and in research projects on incunabula production, including The Dawn of Italian Publishing. Technology, Texts and Books in Central and Northern Italy in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (PRIN 2017BXKWLJ).

Since 2015 it has been associated with the Italian Library Association and registered in the Italian professional register of librarians (E/2015/2167). She is also a member of the Internationale Gutenberg-Gesellschaft in Mainz e.V. and other Italian and foreign associations dedicated to the study, conservation and enhancement of hand printed books. Since 2019 she has been a member of the editorial board of the journal «TECA». 

Type B fixed-term researcher, she teaches Philology of Italian literature for the degree course in Literature. The main lines of research concern the philology of the text and the philology of sources, with particular attention to nineteenth-twentieth-century author philology, the study of reception and the Italian literary tradition and questions of method in the edition of modern and contemporary correspondence with particular insights into the life, work and correspondence of Giovanni Pascoli. Since 2015 she has been a member of the scientific committee of the A.R.C.E. project (Archivio Ricerche Carteggi Estensi), which deals with the study of Renaissance correspondence preserved in the State Archive of Modena. She is a member of the Society of Philologists of Italian Literature (SFLI) and Academic Correspondent of the Pascolian Academy of San Mauro Pascoli. Numerous collaborations with various scientific journals such as «Studi e problemi di critica testuale», «Ecdotica» (of which she is also the editor), «Lettere italiane», «Sincronie», «Rivista di letteratura italiana», «Per leggere», «Italianistica» and «Petrarchesca». 

Librarian and archivist, he trained in the chair of Professor Maria Gioia Tavoni. He deals with the history of bibliography and libraries. He edited the manuscript edition of the Catalog raisonné of the books of Abbot Gaetano Fantuzzi, first librarian of the Municipal Library of Reggio Emilia, and the anastatic reprint of Florian Trefler's Methodus, a sixteenth-century prototype of a librarianship manual. He has studied the culture and scientific method of the agronomist Filippo Re starting from his library and his works and has dealt with the typescript and manuscript files of Albano Sorbelli's Catalogi bibliothecarum Italici Mediae Aetatis, in anticipation of their edition. He has published a multidisciplinary profile of the history of Italian physical and sports education in the liberal age starting from contemporary bibliographic sources kept in the Municipal Library «G. C. Croce» of San Giovanni in Persiceto and from the bibliographic "minor materials" contained in the historical archive of the Società Ginnastica Persicetana. He is part of the editorial board of «TECA». From 2002 to 2019 he worked in the Municipal Library «G. C. Croce» of San Giovanni in Persiceto, dealing, among other things, with the cataloging of special collections. He currently works in one of the libraries of the Municipality of Bologna.

Former full professor of Modern History at the University of Bologna, his main research interests concern the development of natural history and the art-science relationships in the early modern age, the history of collecting, museums and academies, the history of diseases and of health professions.

He also participated in the organization and drafting of the catalog of important exhibitions such as: Il bello e le bestie. Metamorfosi, artifici e ibridi dal mito all’immaginario scientifico (Rovereto 2004); Il viaggio. Mito e scienza (Bologna 2007); Il cannocchiale e il pennello. Nuova scienza e nuova arte nell’età di Galileo (Pisa 2009); Arcimboldo. Artista milanese tra Leonardo e Caravaggio (Milano 2011); Wunderkammer. Arte, Natura, Meraviglia ieri e oggi (Milano 2013).

He has been invited to exhibit the results of his research at numerous museums, universities, libraries and cultural institutions both in Italy (Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence; Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Naples; Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice; Institute National Renaissance Studies, Florence; C.RI.SIS Center, Turin) and foreign (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts / National Gallery of Art, Washington; Institut für Museumskunde / Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz-Berlin; Musée du Louvre, Paris; Italian Cultural Institute, Paris; Natural History Museum, London; Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm; Tiroler Geschichtsverein, Innsbruck; University of Geneva - Escola de Primavera d'Història de la Ciència, Maó; Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, «Lecturas de la Fundación Marcelino Botín», Santander; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifi cas, Barcelona).

He is an ordinary member of the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di scienze, lettere ed arti of Mantua, of the Accademia degli Agiati of Rovereto and of the Società di Studi Trentini di Scienze storiche in Trento. Corresponding member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Bologna. 

After the specialist degree in Comparative Literature, she graduated in 2014 at the School of Archivistics, Paleography and Diplomatics at the State Archive in Modena. Since 2018 she is expert on the subject Archivistics, Bibliography and Librarianship (M-STO / 08) at the University in Bologna. 

In 2019 she obtained the title of PhD in Literary and Philological Cultures at the University of Bologna, with a thesis that investigates the history of books and publishing in the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on the Modenese Jewish publisher Angelo Fortunato Formiggini ( 1878-1938) and on his project to promote Italian books and culture abroad. His work won the 2018 edition of the Giorgio De Gregori Award of the AIB and was published with the title L’arte di farsi conoscere. Formiggini e la diffusione del libro e della cultura italiana nel mondo (Rome, AIB, 2019).

From 2012 to 2020 she worked at the Estense University Library of Modena and held teaching positions for the teaching in English of Bibliography and Biblioteconomy at the Istituto Marangoni (Florence) for the course of studies in Art History & Culture.

Since September 2020 she has been in charge of the Library and Historical Archive Service of the Municipality of Crevalcore (BO).

She graduated in Archivistics, Paleography and Diplomatics at the State Archive in Bologna in 2009 and the specalist degree in Historical Sciences at the University of Bologna in 2011, with a thesis on the archival heritage of the Capitular Library of San Giovanni Battista in San Giovanni. in Persiceto (BO), where she has been collaborating as librarian and archivist since 2010.

He continued her studies at the University of Udine, studying the history of books and publishing with a PhD in Bibliographic, Text and Document Sciences, obtaining the book ra aula e torchio. Libri e scuola a Bologna da Napoleone all’età della Restaurazione (Bologna, Clueb, 2020).

Her research interests range from archival to book and librarianship in the modern and contemporary age, with particular attention to the mixing of documentary and book materials in archives and libraries.

She has carried out cataloging assignments at the Academy of Sciences of Ferrara and works at the Library of the Benedictine Abbey of San Pietro in Modena, for which she also oversaw the adhesion to the Registry of Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage and to the Ecclesiastical Libraries Center (PBE), which allows cataloging in SBN. For the academic year 2020-2021 she is in charge of teaching Archival Studies at the University of Bologna.

Benito Rial Costas is Profesor Asociado at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His scholarly work and publications have been contributing to the fields of material bibliography, the sociology of texts, cultural history and literature, and his interests go across Book Culture and Media, Historiography, Bibliography, Digital Humanities and Typography. His recent scholarly work includes the edited volume Aldo Manuzio en la España del Renacimiento (2019), and the special issue of «Quaerendo. A Journal Devoted to Manuscripts and Printed Books» New insights into an old issue: Book historical scholarship on the relationship between the Low Countries and Spain (1568-1648) (2018). Rial Costas has held Visiting posts in several universities, has lectured in different European and American universities and research centres, and is a member of the scientific committee of several international journals, conferences and granting committees.

Professor of Medieval Latin Literature at the University of Salento (where he coordinated the European doctorate in patristic, medieval and humanistic Philology and Literature, consortiumed with Freiburg im Breisgau), at the University of Cassino (where he coordinated the doctorate in Digital Humanities for Medieval Studies and from 2019 at the University of Bologna.

Director of S.I.S.M.E.L. and member of the board of the Franceschini Foundation; co-director of C.A.L.M.A. (Compendium auctorum latinorum Medii Aevi) and member of the scientific committee of «Micrologus. Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali» and «Segno e testo». He has directed or participated in national and European research projects. He has over 250 publications to his credit (editions, monographs and articles dedicated to the history of medieval culture), including: L’età metaforica. Figure di Dio e letteratura latina medievale da Gregorio Magno a Dante (Spoleto, CISAM, 2011) e Letteratura Francescana, v. 5: La mistica: Angela da Foligno e Raimondo Lullo (Milano, Mondadori 2016).

After graduating in Librarianship and Bibliography, he collaborated with the research unit of the University of Bologna on the project The text and images in eighteenth-century Italian publishing. A scholar of the history of publishing, she has published essays and articles in the magazines «Teca» and «Biblioteche oggi» and two monographs: Editoria a testa alta. Le quarte di copertina de "Gli Struzzi" (Pàtron, 2008) and, together with Maria Gioia Tavoni, the book Guida per bibliofili affamati (Pendragon 2014). In recent years she has dedicated herself to research on micro-publishing, contributing to the conception and organization of editorial projects, exhibitions and cultural events to promote the dissemination and culture of the hand-printed book, of the limited edition artisan publishing and of the artist's book. Librarian since 2007 for Librerie.coop, after a long experience in coordinating the children's and non-fiction sectors at the Coop Ambasciatori Bookstore, today she is in charge of the Coop Zanichelli Bookstore.

Francesca Tomasi is Associate Professor of Archival Sciences, Bibliography and Librarianship (M-STO / 08) at the Department of Classical and Italian Philology of the University of Bologna. She deals with humanistic computer science (Digital Humanities), with particular attention to the digital edition of texts and documents in the wake of knowledge organization systems in archives and libraries. She is the scientific referent of various projects such as, for example: Zeri & LODE, created in collaboration with the Federico Zeri Foundation and related to the creation of Linked Open Data for the archival domain; the digital edition of Vespasiano da Bisticci's letters, a model for applying the tools of the semantic web in the context of digital philology. She is President of the Library of Humanities (BDU) of the University of Bologna, President of the AIUCD (Association for Humanistic Informatics and Digital Culture), coordinator of the DHDK (Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge) master's degree, co-director of the DHARC Center (Digital Humanities Advanced Research Center) and visiting professor at the Digital Humanities Department of King's College (London). She is a member of the scientific committee of the journals «Bibliothecae.it», «Umanistica Digitale», «Labor & Law Issues», «Documenta» and «J-LIS». He teaches "Knowledge Organization and Cultural Heritage" within the DHDK master's degree course; "Humanities Information Technology" and "Digital Humanities and cultural heritage" in the Bachelor's and Master's degree courses at the University of Bologna.

Former full professor of Italian Literature Philology (Bachelor's Degree) and Italian Literature and Philology (Master's Degree). She taught at the Department of Classical and Italian Philology (Faculty of Literature and Philosophy) of the University of Bologna. She also taught at the inter-university master's degree course in Cultures and traditions of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance activated at the University of Ferrara. Within the Department of Classical and Italian Philology of the University of Bologna she has occupied and carries out numerous positions: she was the guarantor of the Committee for the allocation of ministerial funds (RFO, Committee 10); she was a member of the Scientific Commission, which directs the Italianistica Library; from 1st October 2007 until 2010 she was Coordinator of the Doctorate in Italian Studies. Since June 1999 Paola Vecchi is a resident member of the Commission for Language Texts in Bologna; since November 2014 she is the President. Since June 2004 she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the «Matteo Maria Boiardo» Study Center and is a member of the Scientific Committee that coordinates the publication of all the works of Matteo Maria Boiardo. Since January 2014 she has been Corresponding Resident Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna. Since 2008 she has directed, with Emilio Pasquini, Alfredo Cottignoli, Vittorio Roda, the scientific journal «Studies and problems of textual criticism». Since September 2011 she has been the editor-in-chief of the new book and text history magazine «TECA». As for her research activity, she has participated in numerous study conferences, in Italy and abroad, and has collaborated in cultural initiatives that correspond to specific areas of scientific study: the philological and hermeneutical interventions are particularly noteworthy, those on Dante and on Petrarch, on the poetry of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, on the methods and forms of publication and interpretation of the literary text.