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Giuliano Pisani is a writer, classical philologist, scholar of ancient Greek and Latin literature, and art historian who was born on April 13, 1950 in
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. He graduated with a degree in ancient Greek history from Padua University with Professor Franco Sartori. He was a full
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of Greek and Latin literature at Liceo Tito Livio in
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. Since 2011, he has been a member of the National Italian Committee of the Promoters of Classical Culture at
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(Ministry of Education, University and Research). He was also the technical coordinator of the first Olympiad in Classical Languages and Civilizations, which was held in Venice (25-27 May 2012). His scholarly interests are mainly centered on philosophy and ethics. His work includes translations and studies of
Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...
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Plutarch Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ''Ploútarchos''; ; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his ''P ...
(in particular
Moralia The ''Moralia'' ( grc, Ἠθικά ''Ethika''; loosely translated as "Morals" or "Matters relating to customs and mores") is a group of manuscripts dating from the 10th–13th centuries, traditionally ascribed to the 1st-century Greek scholar Plu ...
, the ethic writings about the soul care, education and policy), and
Marsilio Ficino Marsilio Ficino (; Latin name: ; 19 October 1433 – 1 October 1499) was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was an astrologer, a reviver of ...
. He has received prestigious many prizes and acknowledgments for his work. In 1990, he won the Monselice Award Leone Traverso for his Greek translation of Plutarch's
Moralia The ''Moralia'' ( grc, Ἠθικά ''Ethika''; loosely translated as "Morals" or "Matters relating to customs and mores") is a group of manuscripts dating from the 10th–13th centuries, traditionally ascribed to the 1st-century Greek scholar Plu ...
. In 1999, he won the Marcello d'Olivo Award of the city of Lignano (Humanities section). In 2000, he won the Francesco Petrarca Award of the Euganean Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts. In 2009, he won the Bookseller's Prize of the city of Padua with his book about Giotto's frescoes in the Arena Chapel. In 2010, he won the Caorle Mare Award for Culture. For his cultural merits in 1991, he was elected member of the Société Européenne de Culture, and since 1996, he has been a member of Lorenzo Valla foundation. From 1983 to 1988, he has been the Secretary, and since 1988, he has been the President, of the Italian Association for Classical Culture, Padua's Delegation. An active cultural promoter, in 1994, he created the Premio Campiello Giovani on the model of the
Premio Campiello The ''Premio Campiello'' is an annual Italian literary prize. A Jury of Literary Experts (''Giuria di letterati'' in Italian) identifies books published during the year and, in a public hearing, selects five of those as finalists. These books ar ...
. In 2001, he created with Virginia Baradel the ''Gemine Muse'' European forma

In 1995, he created a cycle of lectures devoted the theme of Philosophy as Therapy, which he has organized and directed ever since. Since 1999, he has worked on the creation in Padua of the Giardino dei Giusti del Mondo (the Garden of the Righteous of the World), which was inaugurated on October 5, 2008 and honors those who made a stand against the genocide of the last centur


Plutarch' studies

• Edition, with Greek text, Italian translation, introduction and notes of
Moralia The ''Moralia'' ( grc, Ἠθικά ''Ethika''; loosely translated as "Morals" or "Matters relating to customs and mores") is a group of manuscripts dating from the 10th–13th centuries, traditionally ascribed to the 1st-century Greek scholar Plu ...
''Moralia I - «La serenità interiore» e altri testi sulla terapia dell'anima'', La Biblioteca dell'Immagine, Pordenone 1989, pp. LIX-508 1989, pp. LIX-508 (''De tranquillitate animi; De virtute et vitio; De virtute morali; An virtus doceri possit; Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus; Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores; De vitioso pudore; De cohibenda ira; De garrulitate; De curiositate ; De invidia et odio ; De cupiditate divitiarum'') ''Moralia II - L'educazione dei ragazzi'', La Biblioteca dell'Immagine, Pordenone, 1990, pp. XXXVIII-451 (''De liberis educandis; Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat ; De recta ratione audiendi ; De musica'', in collaboration with Leo Citelli) ''Moralia III - Etica e politica'', La Biblioteca dell'Immagine, Pordenone 1992, pp. XLIII-490 (''Praecepta gerendae rei publicae; An seni sit gerenda res publica; De capienda ex inimicis utilitate; De se ipsum citra invidiam laudando; Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum; Ad principem ineruditum; De unius in republica dominatione, populari statu et paucorum imperio; De exilio'') • Plutarco, ''Vite di Lisandro e Silla'', Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, 1997 (in collaboration with Maria Gabriella Angeli Bertinelli, Mario Manfredini, Luigi Piccirilli) • For the Mondadori Oscar he published the following texts: • ''Consigli politici'', 1994, pp. V-XL, 1-148 • ''La serenità interiore'', 1995, pp. 1–95 • ''L'arte di ascoltare'', 1995, pp. 1–90 • ''Come educare i figli'', 1996, pp. 1–127. • ''Come trarre vantaggio dai nemici'', 1996, pp. 1–89 Nel 2017 per la collana Il pensiero occidentale della Bompiani ha coordinato con Emanuele Lelli l'edizione bilingue integrale in un unico volume dei Moralia: (GRC, IT) Plutarco, "Tutti i Moralia", prima traduzione italiana completa, Milano, Bompiani, 2017 (ISBN 978-88-452-9281-1).


Arena Chapel's studies

• ''I volti segreti di Giotto. Le rivelazioni della Cappella degli Scrovegni'', Rizzoli, Milano 2008. ISBN 978-88-17-02722-9 “A wonderful intellectual adventure into the core of Giotto's inspiration and the amazing world of the Italian 14th century” (
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) This book is a journey into the symbolic universe of the painter who revolutionized the concept of space. The 14th century in Italy begins with the creation of two masterpieces: the first part of Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', devoted to Hell, and the fresco cycle of the Scrovegni Chapel or Arena Chapel(1303–1305), both works marking the start of a new era. There are works that never stop challenging our minds; works that are not forgotten with the passing of time. In his book Giuliano Pisani takes us into the heart of one of the great masterpieces of Western art: the symbol-laden frescoes of the
Scrovegni Chapel The Scrovegni Chapel ( it, Cappella degli Scrovegni ), also known as the Arena Chapel, is a small church, adjacent to the Augustinian order, Augustinian monastery, the ''Monastero degli Eremitani'' in Padua, Italy, Padua, region of Veneto, I ...
. The book is a journey of discovery aimed at finding out again the pieces of a mosaic whose original meaning had been lost; deciphering the meaning of the allegories, and correcting some commonly accepted interpretations. In his frescoes Giotto shows man's salvation, a very complex project, following the guide lines from a hitherto unknown theologian who worked in the shadow: Alberto da Padova. New figures have been identified in a fundamental point of the cycle (Christ on the throne in the picture of the Final Judgement): a centaurus, a she-bear, a pike fish finally take the place of the figures that were formerly believed to symbolise the evangelist

• ''L’ispirazione filosofico-teologica nella sequenza Vizi-Virtù della Cappella degli Scrovegni'', «Bollettino del Museo Civico di Padova», XCIII, 2004, Milano 2005, pp. 61–9

• ''Terapia umana e divina nella Cappella degli Scrovegni'', «Il Governo delle cose», dir. Franco Cardini, Firenze, n. 51, anno VI, 2006, pp. 97–106. • ''L’iconologia di Cristo Giudice nella Cappella degli Scrovegni di Giotto'', «Bollettino del Museo Civico di Padova», XCV, 2006, pp. 45–6

https://web.archive.org/web/20110722051339/http://intranet.remedia.it/unigalileiana/it/videoEventi/videoPisani_02.html] • ''Le allegorie della sovrapporta laterale d’accesso alla Cappella degli Scrovegni di Giotto'', «Bollettino del Museo Civico di Padova», XCV, 2006, pp. 67–7

• ''Il miracolo della Cappella degli Scrovegni di Giotto'', in ''Modernitas'' – ''Festival della modernità'' (Milano 22-25 giugno 2006), Spirali, Milano 2006, pp. 329–57. • ''Una nuova interpretazione del ciclo giottesco agli Scrovegni'', «Padova e il suo territorio», XXII, 125, 2007, pp. 4–8. • ''Il programma della Cappella degli Scrovegni'', in ''Giotto e il Trecento'', a cura di A. Tomei, Skira, Milano 2009, I – I saggi, pp. 113–127. • ''La Desperatio, ultimo vizio nella Cappella degli Scrovegni di Giotto'', in ''Disperazione. Saggi sulla condizione umana tra filosofia, scienza e arte'', a cura di G. F. Frigo, Mimesis, Milano 2010, pp. 209–232. • Le iscrizioni latine sulle porte pretorie del Palazzo della Ragione di Padova, in «Padova e il suo territorio», 166, 2013, pp. 17-22. • La fonte agostiniana della figura allegorica femminile sopra la porta palaziale della Cappella degli Scrovegni, in «Bollettino del Museo Civico di Padova», XCIX, 2010 (2014), pp. 35-46. • La concezione agostiniana del programma teologico della Cappella degli Scrovegni, in Alberto da Padova e la cultura degli agostiniani, a cura di F. Bottin, Padova University Press 2014, pp. 216-268. • Il capolavoro di Giotto. La Cappella degli Scrovegni, Editoriale Programma, 2015, pp. 176 (ISBN 978-88-6643-350-7) Dante e Giotto: la Commedia degli Scrovegni, in Dante fra il settecentocinquantenario della nascita (2015) e il settecentenario della morte (2021). Atti delle Celebrazioni in Senato, del Forum e del Convegno internazionale di Roma: maggio-ottobre 2015, a cura di E. Malato e A. Mazzucchi, Tomo II, Salerno Editrice, Roma 2016, pp. 799-815. • Le passioni in Giotto, in El corazón es centro. Narraciones, representaciones y metáforas del corazón en el mundo hispánico, a cura di Antonella Cancellier, Cleup, Padova 2017, pp. 550-592. • Giotto and Halley's Comet, From Giotto to Rosetta. 30 Years of Cometary Science from Space and Ground, ed. by Cesare Barbieri and Carlo Giacomo Someda, Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Padova 2017, pp. 341-364. • La Cappella degli Scrovegni, in Giotto. Pictor egregius, UTET Grandi Opere, Torino 2017, pp. 209-315. • Scrovegni Chapel, in Magister Giotto, Franco Maria Ricci, Torino 2017, pp. 138-186. • Il buon governo in Giotto, in Lingue, linguaggi e politica, a cura di Antonella Cancellier, Alessia Cassani, Luisa A. Messina Fajardo, Giovanna Scocozza, Dagmar Winkler, Cleup, Padova 2019 (ISBN 978 88 5495 085 6), pp. 53-84. • Giuliano Pisani, La Cappella degli Scrovegni. La rivoluzione di Giotto, Skira, Milano 2021, pp. 1-176 (ISBN 978-88-572-4363-4) • Giuliano Pisani, The Scrovegni Chapel, Giotto's Revolution, Translation by Laura Orsi, Philip Harvey and Stefan Mattessich, Skira, Milano 2021, pp. 1-176 (ISBN 978-88-572-4452-5) • Giuliano Pisani, La Chapelle des Scrovegni. La révolution de Giotto, Traduit par Isabelle Baragan et Maurizia Dalla Volta, Skira, Milano 2021, pp. 1-176 (ISBN 978-88-572-4531-7) • Giuliano Pisani, Die Scrovegni Kapelle. Giottos Revolution, Übersetzung von Klaus Mueller, Skira, Milano 2021, pp. 1-176 (ISBN 978-88-572-4532-4)


Other Art History Studies

• Le Veneri di Raffaello (tra Anacreonte e il Magnifico, il Sodoma e Tiziano), in Studi di Storia dell'Arte, 26, Ediart, Todi, 2015, pp. 97-122. • Archetipi liviani nella storia dell'arte, in Attualità di Tito Livio, in Atti e Memorie dell'Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Padova, CXXX - Parte III, Padova 2019, pp. 199-239. • Antonio Canova: la freccia di Amore e Psiche, in Atti e Memorie dell'Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Padova, CXXX - Parte III, Padova 2019, pp. 297-317.

Other studies

• First modern edition of
Marsilio Ficino Marsilio Ficino (; Latin name: ; 19 October 1433 – 1 October 1499) was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was an astrologer, a reviver of ...
, ''De vita libri tres'', in collaboration with Albano Biondi, Biblioteca dell'Immagine, Pordenone 1991, pp. XXXV-501. • Platone, ''Repubblica'' (antologia), in collaboration with Franco Sartori, Biblioteca Filosofica Laterza, Laterza, Bari 1995, pp. 1–301


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