Nunzio Zago

Nunzio Zago was born in Comiso (Ragusa). Got the degree in Classical Studies at Comiso Lyceum, he attended University studies at the Faculty of Arts & Humanities of the University of Catania and graduated in 1973 with 110/110 cum laude and print award. He obtained the teaching certificate in Italian and Latin for secondary high schools, where he also gained the public competition. First awarded a research grant and then become lecturer of Italian Literature in 1981 at the Faculty of Arts & Humanities of the University of Catania, since 1991-92 he began teaching Methodology and History of Literary Criticism. At the end of 1999, he entered the Faculty of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures in the same University, and began teaching Italian Literature at the same Faculty in Ragusa Campus as associate professor first and then full professor. He was Director of the Degree Courses in the same Faculty (Ragusa Campus) and later he was appointed Dean. He was Head of the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures until 31 October 2016. He is Director of the scientific committee of Fondazione Gesualdo Bufalino in Comiso, he is member of the scientific commitee of Fondazione Verga in Catania. He is a member of the Board of the Association of Italian Studies (ADI).
Besides numerous essays published in journals, collective books and national and international proceedigs, he has written the following books: "Un poeta della 'Toscanina'. Antonio Guadagnoli", Flaccovio 1981; "I Gattopardi e le Iene", Sellerio 1983; "Gesualdo Bufalino", Editrice Pungitopo 1987; "Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa", Editrice Pungitopo 1987; "L’ombra del moderno. Da Leopardi a Sciascia", Salvatore Sciascia Editore 1992; "Cento Sicilie" (con Gesualdo Bufalino), La Nuova Italia 1993 and Bompiani 2008; "Sicilianerie. Da Tempio a Bufalino", Salarchi Immagini 1997; "La parola reticente nel “Decameron” e altri saggi", Salarchi Immagini 2000; "Racconto della letteratura siciliana", Maimone Editore 2000; "Voci della letteratura italiana tra 'buon governo' e altre moralità", Quaderni del Dipartimento di Filologia moderna dell’Università di Catania 2003; "Brancati e il vento di Pachino", Comune di Pachino 2005; "Da Dante a Brancati", Salvatore Sciascia Editore 2006; "Tomasi di Lampedusa", Bonanno Editore 2011; "Dante e Boccaccio", Euno Edizioni 2013; "I sortilegi della memoria. Studi su Gesualdo Bufalino", Euno Edizioni/Fondazione Gesualdo Bufalino 2016. Moreover he has edited "Carteggio di gioventù (1943-1950)" by A. Romanò and G. Bufalino, Il Girasole Edizioni 1994; G. Bufalino, "Le menzogne della notte", Bompiani for secondary high schools 1991 and I Tascabili Bompiani 1995; F. De Roberto, "I Vicerè", Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli (BUR) 1998; G. Deledda, "Canne al vento", BUR 2008; F. De Roberto, "L’Imperio", BUR 2009; F. De Roberto, "L'Illusione", BUR 2011. He has also edited the incomplete novel by G. Bufalino titled "Shah mat. L’ultima partita di Capablanca" (Bompiani-Fondazione Gesualdo Bufalino 2006)