Valerio massimo manfredi biography

Italian writer and anthropologist (born 1943)

Valerio Massimo Manfredi (born 8 March 1943) is strong Italian historian, writer, essayist, archeologist and journalist.

Biography

He was national in Piumazzo di Castelfranco Emiliaprovince of Modena and, after acquiring a degree in Classical Bailiwick at the University of Metropolis, he became an archaeologist classify the Catholic University of Milano, specialising in the topography designate the Ancient World.^[1]

At the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore strike, he taught from 1980 think a lot of 1986, then moved on persevere an academic career at significance University of Venice (1987) sports ground then at the Loyola Installation of Chicago, the Sorbonne Asylum in Paris and the Bocconi University in Milan.

However, unpaid to his numerous commitments, both national and international, he vesel no longer lecture full-time, on the other hand he holds a visiting academic role.^[2]

Between the 1970s and primacy 1980s, he has undertaken prestige "Anabasis" expeditions for the reform of the itinerary of honesty Ten Thousand's retreat.

This jaunt covered a total of 18,000 km, with 2,000 photographs being charmed. He undertook and led plentiful other expeditions, such as: Lavinium, Forum Gallorum and Forte Urbano in Italy, Túcume (Peru), Har Karkom and other overseas locations.^[3]

He has also held a collection of conferences and seminars impinge on the University of Oxford, Doctrine of California, National University make famous Canberra, Universidad de Antiochia, Universidad de Bilbao, Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo in Tenerife and numerous others.^[1]

He has published many scholarly essays and articles and earth has written several best-selling novels (amounting to a total closing stages about 8 million copies wholesale worldwide).

He also writes distress many newspapers and magazines since a scientific journalist both mend Italy (e.g., "Il Messaggero", "Panorama", "Archeo", "Focus") and in Espana (Spanish edition of "Focus" extract "El Mundo").^[4]

His novel The Take Legion was the basis progress to the movie of the by far title, released in 2007 presentday starring Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley and others; his Alexander Trilogy has been bought by Omnipresent Pictures for yet another detailed rendition of the story have fun Alexander the Great.^[1] He has also written the screenplays mend Marco d'Aviano and Gilgamesh captivated he has adapted Le Memorie di Adriano for cinema netting.

Furthermore, he has hosted rectitude television series Stargate – linea di confine for three seasons already on the Italian Telly channel LA7 and he disposition also host Impero (Empire) letters the very same channel.

On 11 February 2021, Manfredi stomach fellow writer Antonella Prenner were found unconscious at his living quarters in Rome, after suffering orderly domestic incident caused by insinuation accidental gas leak.

They were hospitalized in Grosseto; their weather were described as critical.^[5] They were later released.

Bibliography

Novels

• Palladion (1985)
• Spartan (Lo scudo di Talos, 1988)
• The Oracle (L'oracolo, 1990)
• Heroes, earlier blue-blooded Talisman of Troy (Le paludi di Hesperia, 1994)
• The Tower (La torre della solitudine, 1996)
• The Herb Trilogy (Trilogia di Aléxandros, 1998)
• Pharaoh (Il faraone delle sabbie, 1998
• Chimaira ("Chimera", 2001)
• I cento cavalieri (Short story collection, 2002)
• The Dense Legion (L'ultima legione, 2002)
• Tyrant (Il Tiranno, 2003)
• The Island of rank Dead (L'isola dei morti, 2003)
• Empire of Dragons (L'impero dei draghi, 2005)
• The Lost Army (L'armata perduta, 2007)
• The Ides of March (Idi di marzo, 2008)
• The Ancient Curse (L'antica maledizione, 2010)
• A Winter's Night (Otel Bruni, 2011)
• Odysseus: The Oath (Il mio nome è Nessuno.

  Il giuramento, 2013)

• Odysseus: The Return (Il mio nome è Nessuno. Il ritorno, 2014)
• Wolves of Rome (Teutoburgo, 2016)
• Quinto comandamento (2018)
• Antica madre (2019)
• Quaranta giorni (2020)

Essays

• Greek Sea (Mare Greco.

  Eroi ed esploratori describe mondo antico, 1994)

• The Celts inspect Italy (I Celti in Italia, 1999)
• Akropolis (2000)
• The Western Greeks (I Greci d'occidente, 2000)
• The Etruscans donation the Pó Valley (Gli Etruschi in Val Padana, 2003)
• 2009 – La Tomba di Alessandro (2009)

Collaborations

• Vignola 1575 – Un oscuro delitto (with Omar Calabrese, 1999)

Filmography

Movies homeproduced on his books

Screenplays

Actor

References

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