Ferruccio Bertini teaches Latin literature at the University of Genoa. He published a critical edition of the Asinaria by Plautus, an edition with translation of the Amores by Ovid and the Commedie by Terence; for Laterza he has edited Medioevo al femminile (19964). He is the co-editor of «Maia», one of the most important Italian journals of classical literature.