Roberto Pazzi (born 1946, in Ameglia, Italy) is an Italian novelist and poet. His works have been translated into twenty six languages. Pazzi graduated in classics in Bologna with a thesis on Luciano Anceschi and aesthetics on the poetry of Umberto Saba. He taught cultural anthropology and the philosophy of history and sociology of art and literature in high school and a college in Ferrara. Today, after twelve years of exclusive partnership with Corriere della Sera, Pazzi writes for several newspapers including il Resto del Carlino, La Nazione, Il Giorno and The New York Times.