Emanuel França de Brito is Professor of Italian literature at the University Federal Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro (Brasil).
He devotes his academic research to authors from the 13th to 16th centuries. In Brazil, he has translated and organized editions of Brunetto Latini (A Retórica, 2022), Dante Alighieri (Convívio, 2019; Inferno, 2021), Leon Battista Alberti, Cristoforo Landino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Tommaso Benci, Girolamo Savonarola and Niccolò Machiavelli (Humanistas italianos, 2022).