La mente non è un vaso da riempire, ma un fuoco da accendere, Plutarco
La mente non è un vaso da riempire, ma un fuoco da accendere, Plutarco
Konrad Eisenbichler
Konrad Eisenbichler is a prize-winning scholar working on the intersection of literature, politics, and religion in Renaissance Italy, with a side interest in the literature and history of Italian immigration in Canada. His many contributions to scholarship have been recognized at the highest levels both in Canada and Italy. A prolific author with more than 30 books authored, edited or translated, and over 70 articles in peer-reviewed venues, he has also served the Academy in senior positions including as president of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, and the Canadian Society for Italian Studies, as chair of the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium, and as director of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. Within the Italian community, he has long been editor of the quarterly El Boletin of the Club Giuliano Dalmato di Toronto and a three-term president of the Federazione Giuliano-Dalmata Canadese.