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In memoriam Bruno Luiselli

The Sapienza University and the Lincei Academy will hold a conference to the memory of Bruno Luiselli, who died in 2021. Its title is: Tra Romani e Germani. Speakers include Leopoldo Gamberale, Antonella Bruzzone, Alessandro Fo, Giorgio Piras, Luigi Piacente and Umberto Roberto.

Date: Thursday, 22 February 2024. The morning session is hosted by the Sapienza University, the afternoon session by the Lincei.

Everybody is welcome. For the afternoon session, registration is required. The programme and further information are available here

Bruno Luiselli Has Died

Bruno Luiselli, professor emeritus of Latin literature at La Sapienza University, died on 2 June at the age of 87 years. A versatile academic, he was a leading authority in the field of romano-barbarian studies. He founded the Romanobarbarica review as well as the series Biblioteca di Cultura Romanobarbarica. His own output includes, among much else, Romanobarbarica. Scritti scelti, Florence 2017, and Storia culturale dei rapporti tra mondo romano e mondo germanico, Rome 1992.

Read the obituary in La Repubblica here.

SISMEL/Edizioni del Galuzzo publishes the Nuova Biblioteca di Cultura Romanobarbarica in his honour. Its editors are Proff. Antonella Bruzzone, Alessandro Fo, and Luigi Piacente. Information here.