Paolo Canettieri

Paolo Canettieri (born 1965, Viterbo) is an academic and romance philologist. He is a researcher in cognitive science and author, working in Italy. He is a full professor at the University of Rome and researcher in the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies. He is one of the founders of Cognitive philology and Editor in chief of the Journal with the same name. Canettieri's research interests include cognitive poetics and textual criticism (ecdotics). He worked in analysis, synthesis and reviews of romance medieval literature (Italian, Provencal, French, Spanish, Portuguese), with particular emphasis on poetry and its formal structures. He also wrote essays on Arnaut Daniel, Alfonso X, Iacopone da Todi, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca. He is interested in relationship among latin and romance versification and the reception of troubadour lyrics in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance and in the contemporary. He published editions and comments (also in electronic sizes) and drew up databases, metric and rimic catalogues in electronic format. His works mainly concern: - versification and melodic analysis - texts history and attributions - cultural history of ideas - theory of literary genres - intertextuality - etymology and linguistics - selfdefinitions of texts and methods of determination of Corpora - Contrafacta and intertextuality - semantics of metrical structures - relationship between games and ecdotics - relationship between literary text and literary treatises - philology and cognitive sciences - philology and information theory.