Marco Americo Lucchesi (born 9 December 1963) is a Brazilian poet, writer, historian, essayist, translator and Esperantist,[1] member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras since 2011.

[3] His books have been translated into Arabic, Romanian, Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Polish, Hindi, Swedish, Hungarian, Urdu, Bangla and Latin.

Lucchesi also stood out in the General Coordination of Research and Publishing sector of the National Library, where he was responsible for editing catalogs and facsimiles in the period between 2006 and 2011.

He translated several authors, including, published in book form, two novels by Umberto Eco, Scienza Nuova, by Vico, the poems from the novel Doctor Zhivago, works by Guillevic, Primo Levi, Rumi, Hölderlin, Khliebnikov, Trakl, Juan de la Cruz, Francisco Quevedo, and Angelus Silesius.

In January 2023, Lucchesi was appointed by the Minister of Culture of the Lula da Silva government, Margareth Menezes, to preside over the National Library, in Rio de Janeiro.