Paola Pruneti (born June 26, 1937, in Florence), Italian papyrologist and palaeographer. [1] Pruneti worked at the University of Florence.
She is a member of the Editor Committee of Analecta Papyrologica, a journal edited by the Department of Philology and Linguistic of the University of Messina.
Pruneti examined and edited text of Uncial 0277 [2] and many other ancient and mediaeval manuscripts.
Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. He is considered the founder of Western cryptography, a claim he shares with Johannes Trithemius.
Charles-Antoine Campion, italianized as Carlo Antonio Campioni was a French-Italian composer who was born in Lorraine, France. He was a prolific composer and represented a link between Baroque compositional methods and those of the Classical style.
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze is an instructional art academy in Florence, in Tuscany, in central Italy.
Mauro Cristofani was a linguist and researcher in Etruscan studies.
Uncial 0277, is a Greek-Coptic uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 7th or 8th century.
Benedetto Pamphili was an Italian cardinal, patron of the arts and librettist for many composers.
The Accademia delle Arti del Disegno is an academy of artists in Florence, Italy. Founded as Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno on 13 January 1563 by Cosimo I de' Medici, under the influence of Giorgio Vasari, it was made up of two parts: the Company was a kind of guild for all working artists, while the Academy was for more eminent artistic personalities of Cosimo's court, and supervised artistic production in Tuscany.
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani is an Italian historian, specializing in the history of the papacy, cultural anthropology, and in the history of the body and the relationship between nature and society during the Middle Ages.
Guglielmo Cavallo is an Italian palaeographer, Emeritus Professor of the Sapienza University of Rome.
Francesco Cattani da Diacceto, often referred to as Francesco Cattani da Diacceto il Giovane in order to distinguish him from his grandfather, the philosopher Francesco di Zanobi Cattani da Diacceto (1466–1522), was Bishop of Fiesole and author of several works including an Essamerone ("Hexameron") and a translation into vernacular Florentine Italian of the Hexaëmeron and De Officiis Clericorum of Saint Ambrose.
San Francesco di Paola is a small Renaissance-style Roman Catholic church in the Oltrarno quarter of Florence, central Italy.
Medea Vittoria Irma Norsa (1877–1952) was an Italian papyrologist and philologist. She headed the Istituto Papirologico Girolamo Vitelli in Florence from 1935 to 1949.
Alessandro Felici was an Italian composer and violinist, not to be confused with his contemporary, Roman composer Felice Alessandri.
Carmelina Rotundo is an Italian journalist, blogger and teacher.
Nicoletta Maraschio is an academic teacher of "History of Italian Language" at University of Florence. She was the first woman in charge of Accademia della Crusca, from 2008 to 2014, succeeding Francesco Sabatini.
Fausto Sbaffoni is an Italian poet and writer born in Rome, Italy, living and working in Firenze.
Luciano Bellosi was an Italian art historian.
Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli or Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni was an Italian civil servant and essayist. Born and dying in Florence, he served as director of the Uffizi Gallery from 1775 to 1793. He was the last member of a Florentine patrician family.
Timothy Christopher Verdon, is a Roman Catholic priest and Art Historian, specialized in Christian Sacred Art on which he has written numerous books and articles. He has organized international scholarly conferences and curated exhibitions in Italy and the USA. He was born in New Jersey, United States, and has lived in Italy for more than 50 years, now residing in Florence.
Cesare Luporini was an Italian philosopher, historian of philosophy and politician.