{{Short description|Italian writer and critic}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2011}} '''Massimo del Pizzo''' is an Italian science fiction writer and critic. From the Abruzzo region, del Pizzo teaches French Language and Literature in the Facoltà di Lingue of the Università degli Studi di Bari. He published studies on literary utopias, on fantasy and on French scientific imagination writing.
On the fiction front, he published a number of short stories in newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Many of his stories verge on the dream-like, while other are closer to science-fiction.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
==Works==
His works include:
*''L'opera di Rosny Aîné. Dal realismo al naturalismo, dal fantastico alla fantascienza'', Schena, 1990 *''Alphonse Rabbe, la parola austera e la parola disperata'', Schena, 1990<ref name="Brudo2004">{{cite book|last=Brudo|first=Annie|title=Le langage en représentation: essai sur le théâtre de Balzac|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWbleGZ0bUYC&pg=PA288|accessdate=10 April 2011|year=2004|publisher=Presses Paris Sorbonne|isbn=978-2-84050-345-3|page=288}}</ref> *''Viaggi e passaggi. Letture di Jules Verne'', Solfanelli 1995 *''I microscopi dell'Altrove. Utopia, Fantastico, Fantascienza'', B.A. Graphis, 1996 *''Maurice Renard. Gli occhi dello scriba'', B.A. Graphis, 2000 *''Restif de la Bretonne e «Les Posthumes». Il diavolo in coppia'', B.A. Graphis, 2001
As editor he worked on:
*''Racconti di fantascienza. Il mondo attraverso la letteratura di immaginazione scientifica'', Palumbo 2000.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.fantascienza.com/magazine/libri/8281/per-mari-disperati/|title=Per mari disperati|last=Catani|first=Vittorio|date=31 August 2006|work=Fantascienza|language=Italian|accessdate=10 April 2011}}</ref> *''Altri mondi'', Nord.
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110727103314/http://www.lingue.uniba.it/romanmed/ricerca/profili/Del%20Pizzo.htm Official University Site]
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