Matteo Leta

Matteo Leta’s research interests are primarily in Italian and French Renaissance literature. Following his Ph.D., which he obtained in 2019 at Sorbonne Université, he received several postdoctoral fellowships in Europe and North America (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, University of Toronto), with research projects dedicated to the representation of otherness in Italian literature and theatre between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Currently, he holds the position of Teaching Fellow in Italian at University College Dublin. His articles have appeared in international journals of Italian and French Studies, such as La rassegna della letteratura italiana, Lettere italiane, Quaderni d’Italianistica and Studi francesi. Recently, he has published a monograph on charlatans and impostors in Italian and French literature of the 16th century (Le trompeur trompé: représentations littéraires des charlatans à la Renaissance, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2023).