Lorenzo CALVELLI

LORENZO CALVELLI is an Associate Professor in Ancient History at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where he has been working continuously since 2005. He held research fellowships at the American Academy in Rome, the Warburg Institute in London and the Harvard Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence (Villa I Tatti). He was a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Princeton, Sydney, Oxford and Warwick, as well as at the French and British Schools in Athens.

He has published two research monographs devoted to Cyprus in Roman and post-classical times. He is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters. His main research interests focus on ancient history and classical epigraphy, and he is particularly attentive to the relationship of the Adriatic region and the Eastern Mediterranean with Rome from the late republican to the late antique periods. He also works on the history of classical scholarship and the uses of the past (including forgeries), and he explores the potential of digital epigraphy. He has been an invited lecturer at a broad range of academic institutions and international conferences worldwide.

He is the founder and co-editor of the Scopus-indexed Diamond Open Access journal «History of Classical Scholarship» as well as of the Open Access scientific book series «Studi ciprioti», devoted to interdisciplinary monographs on Cyprus.

From 2017 to 2022, he was the Principal Investigator of a major research project on epigraphic forgeries, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education. From 2021 to 2024, he was the Principal Investigator of an interdisciplinary research project on ancient sacred inscriptions from north-eastern Italy. Since 2016, he has coordinated the Research Institute on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and is a member of the Executive Board of the Center for Cultural Heritage Technology.

He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA), a full member of the Deputazione di storia patria per le Venezie and of the Società dalmata di storia patria, as well as a resident member of the Ateneo Veneto.