Manfredi Valerio Massimo

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Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Archaeologist and author

He graduated in classical literature from the University of Bologna and has a specialization in topography of the ancient world at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. He has taught at the same university, at the Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice, at Loyola University Chicago, at the École pratique des hautes études of the Sorbonne in Paris and at Bocconi in Milan. He is the author of subjects and screenplays for cinema and television, collaborates as an antiquist and as a science journalist. His participations in excavation campaigns are numerous. In 1999 he was voted “Man of the Year” by the “American Biographical Institute”, Raleigh, North Carolina. Since 2008, he has led the Impero historical study program which analyzes, through the most ancient archaeological finds such as the seven wonders of the world, the ancient empires: the birth, the causes of their apogee and decadence. Since November 2016 he has been the host of Argo, a journey into history, a series of documentaries produced for the Rai Storia television channel. He was a guest of the Liberevento Cultural Festival in 2012 and in 2020 he presented the book “Antica Madre” (Ed. Mondadori).