Cristiano Leone is an Italian philologist, known for his roles as curator, artistic director and playwright. Currently he teaches at Sciences Po in Paris and the Università Bocconi in Milan. He has published landmark medievalist works on the fables of Petrus Alphonsi, providing an original genealogy and historical context of these texts. His new translation and informative introduction on Petrus Alphonsi's Disciplina clericalis substantially contributed to understanding Exempla literature in Latin and vernacular.