Matteo Sansone (musicologist)

{{short description|Italian musicologist}}

Matteo Sansone is an Italian musicologist who specializes in the study of 19th-century Italian opera.[https://books.google.com/books?id=5Cnf1pmXCcUC&dq=%22Matteo+Sansone&pg=PA131 La romanza italiana da salotto] by Francesco Sanvitale He received his PhD in Italian Literature from the University of Edinburgh and teaches the subject of Italian Opera at New York UniversityNYU in Florence, [http://www.nyu.edu/global/florence/faculty_cvs/Sansone.pdf "Matteo Sansone"] in Florence and at the British Institute of Florence. He is the author of several publications on the topic of opera and has written several entries in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.