El exemplum bíblico: historia sagrada e ideología laica en la España medieval

Hugo O. Bizzarri (born 1956) is a full professor of Hispanic philology and language history at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Lausanne, Geneva and Sorbonne-Paris IV and at the ENS Lyon. He is currently Vice-President of the Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval. He was president of the Medieval Institute at the University of Fribourg (2006-2008 and 2018-2020) and of the Sociedad Suiza de Estudios Hispánicos (2010-2011) and a member of the committee of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (2010-2017). His areas of research are the tradition of proverbs and exempla of the Middle Ages and the Golden Age and the edition of texts. He has published 25 books and over 186 articles. His publications include studies such as Cuentos latinos de la Edad Media (2006), Diccionario de paremias cervantinas (2015), La otra mirada: el exemplum histórico (2019) and Manuscritos hispánicos y cultura vernácula en la Edad Media (2025); critical editions such as Íñigo López de Mendoza, Refranes que dizen las viejas entre el fuego (1995), Pero López de Ayala, Rimado de palacio (2012) and Jacobo Zadique de Uclés, Dichos de sabios (2019) and conference proceedings as Monde animal et végétal dans le récit bref du Moyen Âge (2018) and La mort du roi: réalité, littérature, répresentation (2021).