DISTINCTION

• Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy) [2018].

PRIZES

• Napoli Cultural Classic Prize (section D: introduction/afterwords) for the textual apparatus in Silvana Grasso, Me pudet. Poesie 1994-2017 (Edizioni ETS, 2019) [2022].
• Nino Martoglio Award for non-fiction to Dolci detti. Dante, la letteratura e i poeti (Marsilio, 2021) [2021].
• Giuseppe Antonio Borgese Prize for non-fiction to Le ore del meriggio. Saggi critici (Il Convivio, 2020) [2020].
• Put forward by the students society ETNA for the Teacher Awards [2019].
• Proserpina Prize for the literary essays on Sicilian writers [2018].
• Shortlisted at the Onderzoeksprijs with Un’idea di letteratura nella “Commedia” (Società Editrice Dante Alighieri, 2015) [2017].
• Elsa Morante Prize, section “Morantiano” for the literary essays on the Author [2016].