Giacomo Vagni teaches at the Institute of Italian at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He completed his education at the Catholic University of Milan, where he received his doctorate in Italian literature in 2013 with the work «Baldassarre Castiglione e Cesare Gonzaga, Rime e Tirsi» (Libri di Emil ed., 2015). As part of two Swiss National Foundation postdoctoral projects at the University of Fribourg (2014-2018), he worked on the “Rime“ by Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici (1479-1516) and the “Dialogues” by Torquato Tasso. He was Maître Assistant FNS “Ambizione” at the University of Lausanne (2018-2022) with a research project on the reception of 16th century poetry between 18th and 20th centuries. He also dealt with humanist culture in early 16th century Rome, the letters of B. Castiglione and P. Bembo, and the reception of Renaissance poetry and culture in the 18th century.