Ranieri Polese is a journalist and literary critic for the newspaper Corriere della Sera, and is editor of its culture section. He has written for the papers La Nazione and L’Europeo. He is a member of Italy’s National Union of Film Critics (SNGCI) and is on the selection committee for the Venice Film Festival. His publications include Il film della mia vita (Rizzoli, 1995) and the preface to Le mie canzoni by Vasco Rossi (Mondadori). He curated l’Almanacco Guanda.