Born in 1960, Francesco Rognoni teaches English Language and Literature, American Culture and Anthropology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano and Brescia. He has written essays on several British and American authors (J. Milton, J. Keats, R. Browning, F. O'Hara, R. Lowell ecc.) edited classical and contemporary books, including "Pléiade", Einaudi-Gallimard by P.B. Shelley's works (winner of the Betocchi Prize for poetic translation in 1995). He published "Di libro in libro", 2006, a collection of his essays and other writings.