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He was trained under Claudio Leonardi, with whom he collaborated for many years. He teaches Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum), after having held teaching positions at the Universities of Cassino and Salento. He is a member of the doctoral board of the PhD programme in Studies In Mediaeval Philology, Paleography, Romance Studies, at Sapienza University of Rome. He is President of SISMEL, a member of the executive board of the Fondazione Franceschini, and co-director of C.A.L.M.A. (Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi), as well as of several series devoted to Medieval Latin studies. He serves on the scientific committees of numerous scholarly projects and journals, including Medioevo latino, Micrologus, Segno e testo, and Artes – Rivista di studi artistici, letterari e musicali of the Officina San Francesco Bologna, as well as of the Edizione Nazionale dei Testi Mediolatini d’Italia and the edition of the works of Arnau de Vilanova (AVoThO), Barcelona, Institut d’Estudis Catalans – Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya. He has published numerous studies on Medieval Latin works and on Dante’s Commedia; critical editions of works by Joachim of Fiore, Ramon Llull, and hagiographical texts; monographs on Arnau de Vilanova and on the mysticism of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, especially female mysticism; and a volume on the history of medieval literature and culture entitled L’età metaforica. Figure di Dio e letteratura latina medievale da Gregorio Magno a Dante. He also edited the volume devoted to the pseudoepigraphical works of Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, produced as part of a project funded by the Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca (FISR2019_03352).

Lucia Pinelli is co-editor, together with Professor Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, of the journal «Medioevo latino. Bollettino bibliografico della cultura europea da Boezio a Erasmo (secoli VI–XV)». A member of the «Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino», she serves on both its Scientific Committee and its Board of Directors. Since 2007 she has been a member of the National Commission «Indici e cataloghi delle biblioteche italiane». Since 2009 she has been the Scientific Director of the portal «Mirabile. Archivio digitale della cultura medievale» (http://www.mirabileweb.it/).

Associate Professor of Medieval Latin Literature at the University of Bologna, I graduated in Classics from the University of Salerno, and earned my PhD in Medieval Latin Philology from the University of Florence in 1999. I have collaborated with the Mittellateinisches Seminar at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, the Atelier Vincent de Beauvais (Nancy, now Paris, IRHT), and the Département d'Histoire at the Université Catholique de Louvain. From 2011 to 2016, I held the CNRS Chaire d'Excellence in 'History of Sciences from the Middle Ages to the Present', and worked 'en délégation' at the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT). My research focuses on the transmission of texts and the production of medical manuscripts, particularly concerning the development of the pharmacological and pharmaceutical background during the last centuries of the Middle Ages, and the reception of medical-scientific culture in medieval and Renaissance encyclopedic literature. Among my current projects are the critical edition of the Salernitan compilation Circa instans, the writing of a monograph on the evolution of pharmacology between the 12th and 14th centuries, and the coordination of an international team of editors for the encyclopedia De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomeus Anglicus.

PhD in Hagiography and in Medieval History, he is RTDA at the Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna and collaborates with the S.I.S.M.E.L. He deals in particular with hagiography, biography, religious literature, monastic customaries. He studied the political-institutional and literary history of central italian cities and monasteries (Arezzo, Cortona, Sansepolcro, Chiusi, Camaldoli, Fonte Avellana). Among the authors of the Middle Ages, he studied especially Gerhoh of Reichersberg and Peter Damian.

Laura Vangone holds a PhD in Medieval Latin Philology from the University of Caen Normandie. She is currently a research fellow at the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the University of Campania «Luigi Vanvitelli» as part of the project «The Latin Middle Ages: a bibliographic repertoire of authors, texts, and manuscripts». From 2021 to 2024, she was a research fellow at the University of Bologna within the framework of the project «OPA. Lost Works and Anonymous Works. Repertoire, Study of Tradition, and Critical Editions», with which she still collaborates. She is a member of the editorial board of C.A.L.M.A. (Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi) and collaborates on the bibliographic bulletin Medioevo Latino of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin (SISMEL). Her main research interests include the Latin hagiography of the Norman worlds and the historiography of southern Lombardy.

After completing my classical studies and obtaining both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Medieval Latin Philology (specializing in Philology, Literature, and Ancient History) from the University of Milan, I pursued and concluded a PhD at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (36th cycle). My doctoral dissertation centered on the critical edition of an anonymous Latin commentary on the Apocalypse, linked to the school of Laon and the Glossa Ordinaria. From February 2024 to January 2025, I was a research fellow at the University of Padua, working on a project dedicated to the critical edition of Ystorie Imperiales by Giovanni Mansionario. Since February 2025, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva, where I am involved in the project Bibliotheca Celestinorum Nova. À la recherche de la littérature latine oubliée, directed by Cédric Giraud. I also collaborate with the bibliographical bulletin Medioevo Latino (MEL) and the Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi (C.A.L.M.A.) of S.I.S.M.E.L.

Research Assistant in the project Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and, from February 2026, in the project Erschließung und Digitalisierung illuminierter Handschriften mitteleuropäischer Provenienz at the Bavarian State Library. He graduated in Modern Humanities (Lettere moderne) at the University of Milan with an MA thesis in Medieval Latin Philology devoted to the edition of Tebaldus of Piacenza’s Regula de primis sillabis, and he obtained a PhD in Literary and Philological Cultures at the University of Bologna with a dissertation in Medieval Latin Philology focused on the edition of the Facetus «Cum nihil utilius». His research interests focus on textual criticism applied to medieval Latin texts, in particular grammatical and school texts, metrical treatises, and medieval rhetoric (artes praedicandi). He collaborates with Medioevo latino and with the Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi (CALMA) at SISMEL, Florence. Within OPA he has published an edition of the Ars concionandi attributed to Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and is currently working on the edition of the Epistola de modo studendi of Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas.

I obtained my PhD degree in Classical Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1998 and I work as Professor of Latin Philology at the University of A Coruña. In 1993 I won a scholarship for study in Medieval Latin Philology and Literature from the Fondazione Ezio Franceschini and since then I have collaborated in various teaching and research initiatives at S.I.S.M.E.L. in Florence. In 2020 I was a Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna. I develop my research in the field of Medieval Latin Philology and Literature, participating in several projects and being the author of papers, articles and books on various topics, in particular the reception of Hildegard of Bingen, late antique medical recipe books and late medieval latin prophetic texts. My publications include translations of Rosvit, Hildegard of Bingen and Alcuin, critical editions of Gebeno of Eberbach, Heinrich of Langenstein, pseudo-Sextus Placitus and several prophecies, as well as studies on various aspects of Medieval Latin Literature. I am a member of the editorial board of journals and book series such as Hagiographica, Codex Studies, Opere perdute e anonime (secoli III-XV) and Filologie medievali e moderne.

Paulo Farmhouse Alberto is Professor of Latin and Medieval Literature in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Lisbon. His main interests are textual history and critical edition of texts produced or used in early medieval Spain, especially in the Visigothic period. His work focuses on poetry and grammar, as well as hagiography.

I obtained my Bachelor's Degree in Classical Literature at the University of Bologna, where I am currently completing my Master's Degree, arguing a thesis in Medieval Latin Philology on Bonaventura di Bagnoregio's Vitis Mystica. I did a research period abroad at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich and as a speaker I presented my studies on Franciscan spirituality at the IVEMIR Institute of the Universidad Católica de Valencia and at the Officina San Francesco of Bologna. I also obtained a diploma in Archival Palaeography and Diplomatics at the State Archives of Bologna.

I am currently a PhD at the University of Zurich with a project focused on the edition of Pietro d'Abano’s Liber compilationis physinomie (SNSF, funding scheme DOC.ch). I studied at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna, with a particular interest in Medieval Latin Literature and Philology, furthering my education at University College London. I have worked on female mystical writing in the 13th century and I am publishing the critical edition of the Vita pullae Christinae Stumbelensis. As a research fellow at SISMEL, I collaborate with the following projects/journals: MEL (Bollettino bibliografico per il Medioevo Latino), OPA (Opere perdute e anonime), C.A.L.M.A. (Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi), and Micrologus. I am also a member of the editorial board of Artes – Rivista di studi artistici, letterari e musicali of the Officina San Francesco Bologna, published by the Department of Arts at the University of Bologna.

I obtained a Master's degree in Philology, Tradition, and Classical Literature from the University of Bologna with a thesis in Medieval Latin Philology (critical edition of some works by Arnau de Vilanova), for which I spent a research period at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I am currently enrolled in the postgraduate course in Medieval Latin Philology and Literature (equivalent to a PhD) at S.I.S.M.E.L., with a critical edition project for the third book of Arbor vitae crucifixae Iesu Christi by Ubertino da Casale. I held a research grant at the University of Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli' and attended the School of Archival Science, Paleography, and Diplomatics at the State Archives of Bologna, where I obtained my diploma. I am actually working at the repertory of pseudo-tomistic texts. 

I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Humanities (curriculum European Literary Cultures) at the University of Bologna, with a thesis in the History of Medieval Culture and Thought on the Latin Sermones of Meister Eckhart. I am currently enrolled in the Master’s programme in Classical Philology at the same university, and for my thesis I am working on an edition of the different redactions of a Latin text centred on the magical use of the biblical Psalms. I also collaborate with some SISMEL projects, in particular MEL (Bollettino bibliografico per il Medioevo Latino), OPA (Opere perdute e anonime), and C.A.L.M.A. (Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi).

She obtained her Master’s degree in Modern Philology from the University of Macerata with a thesis devoted to the literary traditions of the Marche region (14th–15th centuries), accompanied by a census of manuscripts connected to this specific historical and cultural context. In June and July 2024, she held a research scholarship at the Warburg Institute in London, and in October of the same year she was awarded the Mirabile-Atlas Fellowship, promoted by the Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation (Geneva) in collaboration with S.I.S.M.E.L. She is currently a PhD candidate in Humanism and Technologies (41st cycle) at the University of Macerata, with a co-tutelle project at the Sorbonne Université in Paris, dedicated to the digital critical edition of the unpublished treatise De vita solitaria by Girolamo da Matelica, a hermit and humanist from the Marche region. For S.I.S.M.E.L., she collaborates on the ADRIHUM (Humanistic Cultural Territories across the Sea), C.A.L.M.A. (Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi), MEL (Bollettino bibliografico per il Medioevo Latino), and RICABIM (Repertorio di Inventari e Cataloghi di Biblioteche Medievali) projects. Her research interests include 15th-century philology and Latin literature, with particular attention to the processes of transmission and reception of authors and texts from the Adriatic area, the cataloguing of medieval manuscripts, and the history of the early printed book.

I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Classical Literature at the University of Bologna. I later obtained my Master's degree in Philology, Literature and Classical Tradition at the same university, with a thesis in medieval Latin philology (critical edition of Peter of Aragon's De Regimine Principum). During my Master's program, I attended courses at Ghent Universiteit as part of the Erasmus+ project. I am currently enrolled in the postgraduate specialization course in Medieval Latin philology and literature at S.I.S.M.E.L., in Florence, working on the critical edition of the Revelaciones of Peter of Aragon.

I am currently completing my Master’s degree in Philology, Literature and Classical Tradition at the University of Bologna, after having obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Classics at the University of Genoa. My Master’s thesis consists of a critical edition of Alan of Lille’s commentary on the Song of Songs. Within the Medieval Latin Philology course taught by Francesco Santi at the University of Bologna, I am contributing to the preparation of the critical edition of a short treatise by Peter of John Olivi. My interest in Franciscanism and the Minorite tradition has led me to participate in several initiatives of the S.I.S.F. (International Society of Franciscan Studies). Thanks also to my participation in training courses offered by S.I.S.M.E.L. (International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin), I collaborate with the following projects and journals: MEL (Bollettino bibliografico per il Medioevo Latino), OPA (Opere perdute e anonime), and C.A.L.M.A. (Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi).

I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Trento, in a cotutelle programme with the Universidade da Coruña, working on a project devoted to the critical edition of the Libellus, a prophetic text written by Telesforo da Cosenza. I studied at the University of Naples Federico II, where I obtained a BA in Classics with a thesis in Classical Philology (L’Antidotum in Facium by Lorenzo Valla: the dispute with Bartolomeo Facio and Antonio Beccadelli). I then earned an MA in Philology, Literature, and Classical Tradition from the University of Bologna, with a thesis in Medieval Latin Philology on the anonymous prophetic text Grifo regalis. As part of this research, I carried out research stays in Santiago de Compostela and at the Universidade da Coruña. After completing my MA, I was awarded a fellowship from the Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation (Genève), in collaboration with S.I.S.M.E.L., to work on the Mirabile–Atlas project. I collaborate with the bibliographical bulletin Medioevo latino (MEL) and with the Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi (C.A.L.M.A.) of S.I.S.M.E.L. My main research interests focus on textual criticism and prophetic literature.

I hold a degree in Classical Philology from the University of Bologna, where I wrote a thesis in Medieval Latin Philology focused on the critical edition of the De natura pueri, the Hippocratic treatise translated by Bartholomew of Messina (13th century²). For this project, I spent a research period in Leuven at the Aristoteles Latinus project. I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Siena, in a joint-supervision programme with the Université de Lausanne, working on the critical edition of the thirteenth-century Latin translation of the Hippocratic Epidemiae VI and the related commentary by John of Alexandria. I also hold a fellowship from the Fondation Zeno Karl Schindler (Genève), as part of a programme supporting the development of the “Mirabile-Atlas” project (SISMEL). In November and December 2025, I was a fellow at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica within the “Freunde der MGH. Pro arte edendi” initiative, where I carried out further research in preparation for the publication of my edition of Bartholomew of Messina’s De natura pueri. At SISMEL, I collaborate with the following projects: MEL (Bollettino bibliografico per il Medioevo Latino), OPA (Opere perdute e anonime), C.A.L.M.A. (Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi) and RICABIM (Repertorio di Inventari e Cataloghi di Biblioteche Medievali). I am currently working on the critical edition of the anonymous Vita Idae Lewensis. My research interests include textual criticism and Greek–Latin translation literature, especially in philosophical and natural-scientific contexts.

Full Professor at the University of Bologna since 2021, she conducts her research in the field of Latin studies. She has collaborated with the OPA research group within the framework of the three-year FISR funding program.

She collaborated with the OPA research group as a postdoctoral research fellow during the three-year FISR funding period, working on anonymous Late Antique texts in the field of rhetoric.

He collaborated with the OPA research group as a postdoctoral research fellow from 2021 to 2023 at the University of Bologna and from 2023 to 2024 at the University of Udine.

He collaborated with the OPA research group as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2023.

She collaborated with the OPA research group as a research fellow in 2022.