Paolo Melandri was born in Faenza in 1974; he graduated in classical philology under the guidance of Italo Mariotti with a thesis on the Latin poet Ennius and on his survie in modern literature. He has published numerous articles devoted to intertextual relationships between recent and ancient authors, with a predilection for Petrarca, Pascoli and D’Annunzio; he collaborates with some of the most important Italian philology and literature magazines, including «Rivista pascoliana», «Studi e problemi di critica testuale», «Maia», «Il lettore di provincia», «Rassegna dannunziana», etc.
In 2000 his first collection of poems was released: anti della Stagione Alta (Nightingale’s, edited by A. Cappi with illustrations by C. Reggiani); he returned to poetry in 2006 with Novelette (edited by Casanova) and, later, in 2007, with Il fiore di Calliope (Edited by Campanotto). In September 2010 he published the first edition of "Nell’anima" (Fourteen poems by Paulo Melandri set to music by Histrix and illustrated by Cesare Reggiani) for the Mobydick editor types (the “L’immaginario” series). In 2011 he wrote a contribution to Libro-manifesto Per una nuova oggettività (Popolo Partecipazione Destino), by AA.VV., Pesaro (Heliopolis Editions). In 2012 he published the first draft of the musicological essay La Cetra Scordata (Musical entertainment with the great Masters of a now lost past), La Carmelina, Ferrara. In 2013 he wrote Verso una rinascita del Galeotus as an introduction to the literary text of Lamberto Caffarelli, in L. Caffarelli, Canti dei Tre Misteri e Galeotus, Lega, Faenza. He subsequently published Steiner and Kandinsky in the production of Lamberto Caffarelli. A local and European history, «Studi e ricerche del Liceo Torricelli», vol. IX, and Ecumenismo e identità nazionale. «Considerazioni inattuali» sul ruolo della Germania in Europa attraverso una disamina dell’opera di Thomas Mann, «Torricelliana», 63-64, Faenza, 2013. 2014 saw the release of "W.A. Mozart" and "La Cetra Scordata". Due secoli di dissonanza and La morte di Mozart, un imbroglio malriuscito, La Carmelina, Ferrara (extensive reworking of the essay of 2012). In the same year he published the cahier Concerto breve (a2mani, Messages series). He is a member of several national prestigious committees. For fifteen years he has been a school teacher at a Secondary School, and for thirteen at a High School.