Lorenzo Perilli is an Italian classicist and academic at the

University of Rome Tor Vergata Tor Vergata University of Rome, also known as the University of Rome II ( it, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"), is a public research university located in Rome, Italy. Located in the southeastern suburb of Rome, the university combine ...

. A Professor of Classical Philology, he is Head of the Institute of Literature, Philosophy and Art history, and the Director of the interdisciplinary Research Centre in Classics, Mathematics and Philosophy Forms of Knowledge in the Ancient World, established in 2013 and devoted to ancient science and related disciplines. He is Co-director of the periodica
''Technai. An international journal on ancient science and technology''
and serves on the board of the journal of ancient medicin
''Galenos''
He was educated in Classics at the University of Rome (1983–1989), where he also received his PhD in Philosophy. He was awarded several international research grants and prizes, among them a 2-year grant from the

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (german: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) is a foundation established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and funded by the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry of Education and Rese ...

(

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

, Germany, 1996), and the Prize of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage in 2001 for his studies on ancient philosophy and science. In 2007 he won the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel International Research Award in Germany, following a nomination by the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum of the

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (german: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), abbreviated BBAW, is the official academic society for the natural sciences and humanities for the German states of Berlin a ...

, where he subsequently conducted his research for about one year. In August 2006 he was research associate at the

Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL (2000-2012) was a research and teaching centre within University College London dedicated to the history of medicine. It was created through a grant from the Wellcome Trust, on the mode ...

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

, in 2010 a visiting scholar of the Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique at the University of Zurich, in 2013 Petra Kappert Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, in 2014
''fellow of the Berliner Antike Kolleg''
Berlin, in 2017 and 2021 Visiting Professor at Venice International University. His work on ancient empiricism has attracted the attention of the mathematician and essayist Nassim N. Taleb at the time when he was writing his best-selling book The Black Swan. He also works as a translator from German, English, French, Dutch.

Academic Interests

Perilli’s main fields of research include Ancient Greek medicine (Temple medicine,

Hippocrates Hippocrates of Kos (; grc-gre, Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος, Hippokrátēs ho Kôios; ), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history o ...

Galen Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus ( el, Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – c. AD 216), often Anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. Considered to be one ...

, empiricism), the

history of ideas Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of intellectual his ...

, Ancient Greek philosophy and science,

textual criticism Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in da ...

and

classical philology Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

. He is also recognised as an expert in

humanities computing Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analy ...

.See e.g.

Publications

Perilli’s main publications include among others
''Filologia computazionale''
Rome, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1995
''La teoria del vortice nel pensiero antico''
Pisa, Pacini 1996
''Menodoto di Nicomedia
Contributo a una storia galeniana della medicina empirica'', München-Leipzig, Saur 2004
filosofia antica. Itinerario storico e testuale''
(with D.P. Taormina), Turin, Utet 2012

Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2013 *Italian edition of R.B. Onians
''The origins of European thought''
Cambridge 1954 (Milan, Adelphi, 2nd ed., 1998) *Italian edition and translation of G.E.R. Lloyd and N. Sivin
''The Way and the Word. Science and Medicine in Ancient China and Greece''
Yale UP 2002
''Tao e Logos. Scienza e medicina nell'antichità: Cina e Grecia''
Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2009) *Italian translation (from Dutch), with introduction, of L.E.J. Brouwer, Leven Kunst en Mystiek, Delft 1905
''Vita, arte e mistica'', Milan, Adelphi, 2015
*(with Luca Canali

Milan, Rizzoli 2013 *(with Luca Canali) ''Il rivoluzionario conseguente. Cesare, Augusto, e il secolo estremo della storia di Roma'', Rome, Castelvecchi 2015
''Vocum Hippocratis Glossarium (Galen’s Hippocratic Glossary)''
Berlin, Walter De Gruyter 2017 (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V 13,1)
''Ancient Philosophy. Textual paths and historical explorations''
(ed., with D.P. Taormina), London and New York, Routledge 2017 He contributed many articles to scholarly journals and conference proceedings.

References

External links

Lorenzo Perilli at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ (including cv and list of publications) (in Italian)
* ttp://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/7722.html Article by Lorenzo Perilli:''Was Forscher wirklich wollen / What Researchers really want.'' Abstract: Bureaucratic reform notions and modelling on the wrong examples are jeopardising European universities. A plea for some reflection upon classic strengths and more faith in the up-and-coming generation of academics.
Radio interview with Lorenzo Perilli
on ancient Greek medicine from Internet Archive (in Italian)
Radio interview with Lorenzo Perilli
on Galen's anatomy and medical knowledge from Internet Archive (in Italian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Perilli, Lorenzo Living people Italian classical philologists Year of birth missing (living people)