I am an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I also serve as the Head of the Institute of Literatures. My primary research interest lies in the interrelations between literature, ethics, and the emotions in the later Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, with a particular emphasis on the works of the “Three Crowns”: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. My first book, Petrarch’s Humanism and the Care of the Self, was published by Cambridge in 2010. Recently has appeared my second monograph, Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature (PIMS, 2022). My current research project deals with the literary, philosophical, and political implications of compassion in the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from Dante to Tasso. I have published articles on medieval and Renaissance literature in journals such as SpeculumMLN, and I Tatti Studies, and have contributed chapters to The Cambridge Companion to PetrarchThe Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio, and The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature. Besides my work on Italian Renaissance Literature, I am interested in the theory and practice of autobiography from antiquity to the present and contemporary theories of affects.