The dottorato di ricerca is the highest Italian academic degree, the equivalent of a Ph.D.
Higher education in Italy is mainly provided by a large and international network of public and state affiliated universities. State-run universities of Italy are under the supervision of Italian's Ministry of Education. There is also a number of private universities and state-run post-secondary educational centers providing a vocational instruction.
The Left was a left-wing coalition of political parties in Italy which took part in the 2019 European Parliament election. Its main members were Italian Left and the Communist Refoundation Party.
University of Naples "L'Orientale" is a university located in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1732 by Matteo Ripa, it is the oldest school of Sinology and Oriental Studies of the European continent. It is organized in three departments, and is the main university in Italy specializing in the study of non-European languages and cultures, with research and studies agreements with universities all over the world. It is one of the top universities in the world regarding Asian cultures and languages.
The Consorzio ICoN is an interuniversity consortium for Italian Studies established in 1999. It consists of 21 Italian universities and focuses on philology and cultural studies. The consortium is based and administrated at the University of Pisa and is supported by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. It aims at diffusing Italian language, culture and literature.
A Superior Graduate School is a completely independent institution from a legal point of view, which offers advanced training and research through university-type courses or is dedicated to teaching at graduate or post-doctoral level.
Lorella Cedroni was a political philosopher.
Giovanni Verardi is an Italian archaeologist specialising in the civilisations of central Asia and India. With extensive academic and fieldwork experience, he has published findings about sites in Afghanistan, Nepal, India, and China in particular. Verardi has joined or directed several long archaeological missions to central Asia, and held positions on numerous Italian scientific boards. He has a particular interest in Indian iconography and history.
The Premio Friuli Storia is an annual Italian literary award established in 2013 to promote standards of excellence in the writing of history books for a general readership. It is the only national Italian literary prize for non-fiction which entrusts the selection of the winner to a committee of non-specialist readers.
Maria Pia Calzone is an Italian actress, best known for playing the boss's wife, as Immacolata "Imma" Savastano, in the television series, Gomorrah. She graduated from Italy's national film school, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, and has a degree in literature from the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" in Naples. Calzone has won the Premio Riccardo Cucciolla in 2006 for best lead actress at the Festival di Vasto San Salvo and the Premio Ippocampo for best actress at the Festival di Trieste Maremetraggio 2006.
Power to the People! is a political party in Italy. It was launched in December 2017 as a left-wing joint electoral list of anti-capitalist parties and movements which ran in the 2018 general election.
Christian Greco is an Italian Egyptologist. Since 2014, he has been the director of Museo Egizio at Torino.
The Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane is an association of public and private universities in Italy. It began in 1963 as a private organization, later becoming an official advisor to the government. The supporting Fondazione CRUI (foundation) formed in 2001. CRUI operates from headquarters at the Piazza Rondanini in the Sant'Eustachio rione of Rome.
Alessandro Bausi is an Italian philologist working on Ethiopic texts and manuscripts. Bausi earned his PhD in 1992 from University of Naples "L'Orientale". Formerly Assistant (1995) and Associate Professor (2002) of Ethiopic Language and Literature at the University of Naples "L'Orientale", since 2009 he is Professor for Ethiopian Studies at the Asien-Afrika-Institut and Director of the Hiob Ludolf Centre at Universität Hamburg. He is considered as one of the leading scholars in his field, and is the editor of the journal Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies and of the series Aethiopistische Forschungen.
Serena Vitale is an Italian academic, scholar, writer, and translator. She won the 2001 Bagutta Prize.
Tomaso Montanari is an Italian art historian, academic and essayist.
Matteo Pizzigallo was an Italian essayist and historian. He attended La Sapienza University in Rome and graduated in 1972.
Alessandro Triulzi is an Italian historian, Africanist and since 2011 Emeritus Professor of African History and former Vice Director of the African and Arab Studies Department at the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" at Naples. He studied Political Science at the Sapienza University of Rome for a Master's degree in 1966 and obtained a PhD in History at Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois in 1981. Triulzi performed field work among the Ashanti people in Ghana (1969), and the Berta and Oromo people in Wallaga, West Ethiopia. He worked in Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea during 1970–1973, and again in Ethiopia during 1985–2005.
