Alessandro Agostinelli

Alessandro Agostinelli (; born 1965) is an Italian writer, journalist and poet.

Early life Born in Follonica, he obtained a Ph.D. in "history of visual arts and show business".

Travel journalism One of his topic of interest is the concept of "travel". He writes the travel blog Atlante for the weekly magazine L'Espresso and was of the author of the Lonely Planet's guides in Italian for Tuscany and also specifically for Florence (in 2014).

He is the president of the Società Italiana Viaggiatori and the director of the Festival del Viaggio. In 2025 the festival's twentieth anniversary was marked by a dedciated photographic catalogue retracing the event's history.

In 2011 he published Honolulu baby, a book of anecdotes and histories about the Hawaiian Islands but also about the role of writing during travel.

In 2018 he celebrated the 500th year from Leonardo da Vinci's death with a trip from Vinci to Amboise, in France. Benedetti da Parker, and specifically the economical and social roots of the noir genre and its relationship with the western one.

Poetry His poetic production dates back to the beginning of the century and is inspired by “existential and travel themes".

His poetries have been translated in Spanish, French, English and German

In 2019 he wrote the preface to the anthology Dix poètes italiens contemporains published in France by Le bousquet-la barthe.

Works Poetry Numeri e Parole, 1997, Il materiale fragile, 2021, Pequod.

Novels La vita secca, 2002, Besa, Alessandro Agostinelli, Athos Bigongiali, Sergio Costanzo, Marco Malvaldi, Matteo Pelliti, Ugo Riccarelli, Luca Ricci, Alessandro Scarpellini, Sosteneva Tabucchi, 2013, Felici Editore, Benedetti da Parker, 2017, Cairo Editore. Racconti di Viaggio

Essays Fosfori: 17 racconti di autori italiani contemporanei, Marco Nardi, 1992, Florence, Alessandro Agostinelli, Daniele Luti, Sera di Volterra. Viaggio nei luoghi e nelle storie di una città antica, 2000, ETS, La società del giovanimento. Perché l'Occidente muore senza invecchiare, 2004, Castelvecchi, Una filosofia del cinema americano - Individualismo e Noir, 2004, ETS, Pisa & Livorno, istruzioni sulla guerra e sui campanili, 2006, Zona Alessandro Agostinelli, Tito Barbini, Paolo Ciampi, Parole in viaggio. Piccola guida di scrittura per viaggiatori veri e immaginari, 2014, Romano Editore, Un mondo perfetto. Gli otto comandamenti dei fratelli Coen, 2010, Editrice Besa Controluce, David Lynch e il Grande Fratello, 2011, Besa, Bernard Vanel (translator), Alessandro Agostinelli (preface), Dix poètes italiens contemporains. Dieci poeti italiani contemporanei, 2018, lebousquet-la barthe,

Travel guides and travel literature Honolulu baby. Avventure hawaiane di musica, surf, vulcani e chiari di luna, 2011, Vallecchi, Firenze, 2014, EDT, Da Vinci su tre ruote. In scooter alla scoperta del genio, 2019, Exòrma. Giordania stilografica, 2023, Edizioni ETS,