Carlo Caruso is Professor of Italian Philology at the University of Siena. He graduated from the University of Genoa and received his doctorate from the universities of Zurich and Turin. Before Siena he has taught at the universities of Zurich, Zurich-ETH, Reading, St Andrews, Warwick and Durham. Over the years he has received grants from, among others, the Warburg Institute (UK), the Swiss National Science Foundation (CH), the British Academy (UK), The Carnegie Trust for Universities in Scotland (UK), UK), the Leverhulme Trust (UK), the Ministry for University and Research (IT), and has been a Residential Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 2015.

His main research interests include the classical tradition in literature Italian Renaissance, the relationship between literature and the arts (from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment), and the history of scholarship. His publications include critical editions (Paolo Rolli, Libretti per musica, Milan, Franco Angeli, 1993; Diomede Borghesi, Orazioni accademiche, Pisa, ETS, 2009), monographic studies (Adonis. The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance, London , Bloomsbury, 2013; 2015; Come lavorava Carducci, Rome, Carocci, 2020, with F. Casari), and edited volumes (Il commento ai testi, Basel, Birkhäuser, 1992, with O. Besomi; Filologia e storia letteraria. Studi per Roberto Tissoni, Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2008, with W. Spaggiari, Italy and the Classical Tradition, Language, Literature and Thought 1300-1600, London, Duckworth, 2009, with A. Laird, The Life of Texts, Evidence in Textual Production, Transmission and Reception, London, Bloomsbury, 2018; La filologia nel Rinascimento in Italia, Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2018, with E. Russo).