LUCIANO CANFORA - PHOTO WITH AUTOGRAPH

LUCIANO CANFORA - PHOTO WITH AUTOGRAPH
Luciano Canfora (Bari, 5 June 1942) is an Italian classical philologist, Greek scholar, historian and essayist.

He graduated in classical literature with a thesis in Roman history in 1964 and obtained a specialization in classical philology at the Scuola Normale in Pisa. He began his university career as an assistant in ancient history and later in Greek literature.

He is professor emeritus of Greek and Latin philology at the University of Bari and scientific coordinator of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici of San Marino.

He is a member of the steering committees of several journals, both scientific and of high-level popularization, such as the Journal of Classical Tradition of Boston, the Spanish Historia y crítica, the Italian journal of high-level popularization of geopolitics Limes. He is a member of the Fondazione Istituto Gramsci and of the scientific committee of the Enciclopedia Treccani. Since 1975, he has also directed the magazine Quaderni di Storia (ed. Dedalo, Bari), the text series La città antica for the publisher Sellerio, the Paradosis series for the Dedalo editions and the Historos series for the Sandro Teti Editore.

He is a prolific author of philology, history and politics from ancient times to the contemporary age. Many of his books have been translated in the USA, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Brazil, Spain, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

He is an editorial writer for the Corriere della Sera and collaborates with Il Calendario del Popolo, where he has a regular column entitled "il fratello Babeuf".

He coordinated and directed, together with Diego Lanza and Giuseppe Cambiano, Lo spazio letterario della Grecia antica for Salerno editore (1992-1996), a collective work on the different characteristics of ancient Greek philology, Greek literature and its persistence. The greatest Italian experts in philology and history of Greek literature contributed to this work. In 2011, he received the Feronia-Città di Fiano Award for the Militant Criticism section.

In 2020, Luciano Canfora won the historical-scientific section of the 53rd edition of the Acqui Storia Award.

PHOTO WITH ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH ON GLOSSY PAPER.

Estado:	Como nuevo
Medidas:	11 x 17 cm