Nationality Italy Name Valerio Manfredi Period 1980–present Role Historian | Genre Historical drama Spouse Christine Manfredi Notable works Alexander trilogy | |
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Born Occupation Writer, essayist, historian, archaeologist, journalist Movies The Last Legion, September Eleven 1683, The Inquiry, The Sands of Time Children Fabio Emiliano Manfredi, Diana Manfredi Books The Last Legion, Spartan, The Ends of the Earth, Odysseus: The Oath: Book One, Child of a Dream Similar People Doug Lefler, Romulus Augustulus, Venceslas Kruta, Carlo Carlei, Alexander the Great | ||
Festival noir 2015 8 incontro con valerio massimo manfredi
Valerio Massimo Manfredi (born 8 March 1943) is an Italian historian, writer, essayist, archaeologist and journalist.
Contents
- Festival noir 2015 8 incontro con valerio massimo manfredi
- Valerio massimo manfredi ulisse il primo viandante moderno
- Biography
- Movies based on his books
- Screenplays
- Actor
- References
Valerio massimo manfredi ulisse il primo viandante moderno
Biography
He was born in Piumazzo di Castelfranco Emilia province of Modena and, after getting a degree in Classical Arts at the University of Bologna, he became an archaeologist at the Catholic University of Milan, specialising in the topography of the Ancient World.
At the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore itself, he taught from 1980 to 1986, then moved on to an academic career at the Università of Venice (1987) and then at the Loyola University of Chicago, the Sorbonne University in Paris and the Bocconi University in Milan. However, due to his numerous commitments, both national and international, he can no longer lecture full-time, but he holds a visiting professor role.
Between the '70s and the '80s, he has undertaken the "Anabasis" expeditions for the reconstruction of the itinarary of the Ten Thousand's retreat. This expedition covered a total of 18,000 km, with 2,000 photographs being taken. He undertook and led numerous other expeditions, such as: Lavinium, Forum Gallorum and Forte Urbano in Italy, Túcume (Peru), Har Karkom and other overseas locations.
He has also held a series of conferences and seminars at the University of Oxford, University of California, National University of Canberra, Universidad de Antiochia, Universidad de Bilbao, Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo in Tenerife and many others.
He has published many academic essays and articles and he has written several best-selling novels (amounting to a total of about 8 million copies sold worldwide). He also writes on many newspapers and magazines as a scientific journalist both in Italy (e.g., "Il Messaggero", "Panorama", "Archeo", "Focus") and in Spain (Spanish edition of "Focus" and "El Mundo").
His novel The Last Legion was the basis for the movie of the same title, released in 2007 and starring Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley and others; his Alexander Trilogy has been bought by Universal Pictures for yet another cinematic rendition of the story of Alexander the Great. He has also written the screenplays for Marco d'Aviano and Gilgamesh and he has adapted Le Memorie di Adriano for cinema screening. Furthermore, he has hosted the television series Stargate – linea di confine for three seasons already on the Italian TV channel LA7 and he will also host Impero (Empire) on the very same channel.