Alessandro Barbero
Alessandro Barbero (born April 30, 1959) is an Italian historian, novelist and essayist. Since he was a child, he showed an innate curiosity, which combined with a passion for study that led him to enroll in the Cavour classical high school in his city. After graduating, he pursued a degree in Literature at the University of Turin, obtaining it in 1981 with a thesis that explored medieval history, supervised by his supervisor Giovanni Tabacco, one of the most important Italian academics of all time. In addition to having managed to graduate together with such a prestigious figure, Alessandro in the same year managed to win a research position to continue his academic career at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome.During this initial phase of his research, Alessandro Barbero deepens his passion for the history of the Middle Ages, to the point of writing in 1994, together with his colleague Chiara Frugoni, the Dictionary of the Middle Ages. The collaboration finds an outlet five years later, with the title, again written by four hands, Middle Ages. History of voices, story of images.
Alessandro Barbero at Festival della Mente 2012 - Wikipedia
In 1996 he was awarded with the Strega Prize for the novel Bella vita e guerre altrui di Mr. Pyle, gentiluomo. These first successful publications were followed by the biography of Carlo Magno. Un Padre dell'Europa, published in 2000, a work that allowed him to attract the attention of an even wider audience.
For his role as a popularizer he was honored by the French government, which in 2005 awarded him the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature. Starting in 2007 he began a collaboration with the television program Superquark, hosted by Piero Angela, for which he curated a container aimed at exploring historical customs and habits.
In 2012, continuing their fruitful collaboration, he wrote with Piero Angela the book Behind the Scenes of History, riding the formula of their television conversations. From the following year until 2017, he was a member of the scientific committee of Il tempo e la storia, a program broadcast on Rai 3, as well as of Passato e presente, on the same network.
Alessandro Barbero at Festival del Medioevo 2017 - Wikipedia
Since 2010, Barbero has been a member of the Deputazione Subalpina di storia patria and for a few years he worked as a member of the Strega Prize committee, resigning in March 2013. His activity as an essayist, which he alternates with that of a novelist, marks another great achievement with the publication in 2016 of the essay Costantino il vincitore.
Source: Fondazione Petruzzelli
Alessandro Barbero former teacher Medieval History at the University of Eastern Piedmont.
Among his publications we recall: Charlemagne. A Father of Europe (Laterza 2000); August 9, 378: the Day of the Barbarians (Laterza 2005); Constantine the Victor (Salerno 2016); Dante (Laterza 2020).
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Among his best-known essays we find La guerra in Europa dal Rinascimento a Napoleone, Barbari. Immigrati, profughi, deportati nell'Impero romano, Donne, madonne, mercanti e cavalieri. Sei storie medievali, Le parole del papa. Da Gregorio VII a Francesco Dante.
