(13 marzo 2018) Italian literature at the Italian Institute of Culture of Munich. Tomorrow at 18:30 at the Italian Institute of Culture, poet Federico Italiano interviews literary critic, Andrea Cortellessa on the direction of contemporary Italian literature is taking. Andrea Cortellessa, one Italy's most renowned literary critics, was born in Rome in 1968. He is Associate Professor of contemporary Italian literature at the University of Roma Tre. Federico Italiano was born in Galliate, near Novara, in 1976. After living for fifteen years in Munich, he moved to Vienna in 2016, where he worked as a researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has published four collections of poems.