Alessandro Barbero
Alessandro Barbero (born April 30, 1959) is an Italian historian, novelist and essayist. Barbero was born in Turin. He attended the University of Turin, where he studied literature and Medieval history. He won the 1996 Strega Prize, Italy's most distinguished literary award, for Bella vita e guerre altrui di Mr. Pyle gentiluomo. His second novel, Romanzo russo. Fiutando i futuri supplizi, has been translated into English as The Anonymous Novel. Sensing the Future Torments (Sulaisiadar 'san Rudha: Vagabond Voices, 2010).Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Barbero
Alessandro Barbero at Festival della Mente 2012 - Wikipedia
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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Alessandro Barbero at Festival del Medioevo 2017 - Wikipedia
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.