Maria Isabella Vincentini (born in 1954) is an Italian poet, essayist and literary critic.
She graduated in Humanities at La Sapienza University in Rome, where she also gained a post-graduate degree in modern philology.
Her essays focus on the debate on the theory of literature between hermeneutics, deconstruction and postmodernism (Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Lyotard, Todorov, de Man and Frye) and aim to provide a thematic reading of twentieth-century poetry (Mallarmé, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Ungaretti, Quasimodo, Montale, Luzi and Rosselli).
She has published anthologies of Italian poets who came to light after the so-called Neoavanguardia, a movement which dominated the nineteen-sixties, as well as essays, monographs and interviews with them.
She has also published two collections of poems: Le ore e i giorni[1] (The Hours and the Days) and Diario di bordo (Logbook).