Witold Sadowski is professor of literary theory at the University of Warsaw. His latest book European Litanic Verse : A Different Space-Time (218) describes enumerative versification from Antiquity to Early Modernity with a particular focus on the space-time matrix within which the world is depicted in litanic poems.Francesco Marsciani is professor of semiotics and ethnosemiotics at the University of Bologna.
He was a student of Umberto Eco in Bologna and Algirdas Greimas in Paris. Among his publications are the following books : Ricerche Semiotiche I and II, and Tracciati di Etnosemiotica (recently translated into French).