Stefano Bartezzaghi

Semiologist, riddler and essayist, he is one of the most important scholars in terms of word games, humor and creativity. Milanese, already at the age of 9, he began to collaborate with all the main Italian puzzle magazines, as an author and solver of games. He graduated from the University of Bologna with a thesis in semiotics followed by professor Umberto Eco.

Since 1987 he has edited columns on games, books and language for important newspapers such as La Stampa, La Repubblica, Vanity Fair, as well as his columns “Lessico e Nuvole”, “Lapsus”, “Fuori di Testo”, and for the weekly magazine L'Espresso the linguistic criticism column “Come dire”.

As a writer and intellectual, he is called upon to discuss issues related to the Italian language and contemporary Italian literature, literary games in world literature, humor, irony, satire and comedy. In his speeches, he deepens word games in relation to language, literature, politics and teaching.