Luca Trissino

Luca Trissino is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Italian Studies of the University of Lugano.

He completed his studies at the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies of the University of Padua, obtaining a master’s degree in Modern Philology; afterwards, he was a college-level teacher of Italian language and literature. He has also earned a second master’s degree in Art History at the University of Trento and Verona. 

His research interests include the poetic language of the twentieth century and its reflections in formal facts, modern Italian literature and its relations to European literatures, and the relationship between literature and visual studies.

His project focusses on the stylistic analysis of the essays on art criticism written by Hermetic poets.