Lorenzo Maria Ciolfi holds a Ph.D. from the EHESS (Paris). In 2024, he was awarded a Juan de la Cierva fellowship at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and is currently affiliated researcher at the Norwegian Institute in Rome. Trained in philology, palaeography, and Byzantine studies, his research focuses on John III Vatatzes and the emergence of his cult within Byzantine imperial sainthood. Moreover, he works on Greek paremiographic and fable collections of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and their relationship to Renaissance anthologies
Lorenzo Ciolfi: Arsenius, Erasmus, and Erpenius: Renaissance Paremiography and the Recovery of Ancient, Common, Wisdom
As part of the Circolo Gianicolense seminar series, Dr. Lorenzo Ciolfi, research affiliate at the Norwegian Institute, will present his research at the American Academy in Rome.
See the website of the American Academy in Rome for more information about this event.
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