Born in Naples on June 9, 1948, in July 1970 he obtained a degree in General Arts from the University of Naples, discussing a dissertation in Romance Philology. From September 1970- September 1972 he held a temporary lectureship in Romance Philology at that same University; from 1972-1974 he was a Lecturer in Italian Language and Literature in the Department of Italian at McGill University (Montreal), then from 1974-1979 Assistant Professor of Medieval Romance Literatures in the Graduate School of the Romance Language Department at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore); while on leave from 1977-79 he was a Fellow of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti (Florence). From 1977, he was untenured Associate Professor of Theory of Literature in the Department of Philology at the University of Calabria, then tenured Associate Professor of the same subject from 1984-86, when he took up the position of untenured Full Professor of Romance Philology in the Department of Linguistics at the same University. Since 1989 he is Full Professor of the same subject in the Department of Modern philology at the University of Naples Federico II. From 2004 to 2016 he has chaired the PhD School in Classical, Philological and Literary Sciences and the PhD Programme in Modern Philology; from 2013 to 2016, the PhD Programme in Philology.

He has researched into Occitan, Catalan and Italian philology, Romance versification, contemporary Italian literature, literay theory, IT applied to philological research.

He has been an advisor for the sectors of philology, criticism and literary theory to the publishing houses Einaudi (1984-87) and Bollati Boringhieri (1987-1996). He has edited a number of collective works.

He has been a member of the Editorial Board of the journals Modern Language Notes (1975-79) and L’asino d'oro (1990-94). From 2005-2008 he was President of the Italian Association of Catalan Studies. Since 1989 he is the General Editor of the Collezione di testi siciliani dei secoli XIV e XV, since 2008 the Editor of the ejournal Lecturae tropatorum; since 2009 is in the Scientific Committee of Enthymema; since 2010 in the Scientific Committee of Revue des langues romanes; since 2020, in the Scientific Committee of the editorial collection Biblioteca medievale. Since 2012, is Co-editor of the Bollettino del Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani.

He coordinates the Rialc: Computerised Repertory of Old Catalan Literature, set up with funds from the prin 1997-1999 and 1999-2001; in 2002 he set up the Rialto: Computerised Repertory of Troubadour and Occitan Literature, with funds from the prin 2001-2003 and 2003-2005.

Essential Bibliography. — Teoria e prassi della versificazione, Bologna 1976, 2a ed. 1983, rist. 1986; Critica della letterarietà, Milano 1978 (ed. ingl. A Critical Theory of Literature, Madison-London 1981; ed. sp. Teoría crítica de la literatura, trad. de Alejandro Pérez, Barcelona 1982, rist. 2001; trad. port. Para uma crítica da teoria literária, trad. de Salvato Teles de Menezes, Lisboa 1985); Elementi di versificazione provenzale, Napoli 1979; Libru di lu transitu et vita di misser sanctu Iheronimu, a cura di C. Di G., Palermo 1982; Elementi di teoria letteraria (con Franco Brioschi), Milano 1984, ristt. successive; La ragione critica. Prospettive nello studio della letteratura (con Alfonso Berardinelli e Franco Brioschi), Torino 1986; La forma del testo. Guida pratica alla stesura di tesi di laurea, relazioni, articoli, volumi (con Luca Toschi), Bologna 1988; Introducción al estudio de la literatura (con Franco Brioschi, Alberto Blecua, Antonio Gargano, Carlos Vaíllo), Barcelona 1988, ristt. successive [cfr. Elementi di teoria letteraria]; I trovatori, Torino 1989 e ristt. successive, nuova ed. 2021 (trad. cat. Els trobadors, trad. de Núria Puigdevall Bafaluy, València 1994); Avviamento alla filologia provenzale (con Charmaine Lee), Roma 1996, rist. Roma 2002 e successive; Ausiàs March, Pagine del Canzoniere, a cura di C. Di G., Milano-Trento 1998; Introduzione alla letteratura (in collaborazione con Franco Brioschi e Massimo Fusillo), Roma 2003, ristt. successive [cfr. Elementi di teoria letteraria]; Ausiàs March, Páginas del Cancionero, introducción, edición y notas de C. Di G., traducción de José María Micó, Madrid - Buenos Aires - Valencia 2004 [cfr. Pagine del Canzoniere]; Filologia interpretativa, Roma 2019 [saggi raccolti 1969-2016]; Manualetto di metrica italiana, Roma 2021.

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