Biography and autobiography are flourishing in Britain and the anglophone world generally, where most of these literature scholars work, but not so in Italy. They explore the few examples during the 2
Primarily concentrating on the traditional canon, but including a number of minor and "sometimes not even literary" figures, Hainsworth (Italian, U. of Oxford, UK) and Robey (Italian, U. of Reading, U
Petrarch was Italy's second most famous writer (after Dante), and indeed from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries he was much better known and more influential in English literature than Dante.
