Piero Boitani is one of Italy's most renowned philologists and literary critics. An expert on ancient myths, medievalist, and Dante scholar, he holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is currently Professor of Comparative Literature at the Sapienza University in Rome.
Piero Boitani's Ten Lessons teach us an additional one, the most important: that the classics are alive within us. * Il Foglio * As bewitching and as entertaining as a novel . . . Boitani uncovers the unexpected, extraordinary modernity of the classics. -- Piero Dorfles * Per un pugno di libri * A remarkable book. The stories collected by Boitani, written centuries ago, still speak to us. -- Corrado Augias * La Repubblica *