Academic Degrees: Laurea in Lettere, Diploma di perfezionamento, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
Research Interests: Renaissance culture; intellectual history; modern and contemporary Italian novel; literature and politics.
Erspamer’s book reviews appear weekly on line in his page Harvard Diary, on the web site of Rai international, Italica.
He created and organizes the Zerilli-Marimò Prize for Italian Fiction. He contributes regularly to the Rivista dei libri.