Enrico V. Maltese

Enrico Valdo Maltese (21 November 1952) is an Italian Byzantinist and university professor, Emeritus at the University of Turin.

Born in Turin, Maltese graduated in 1974 from the University of Genoa tutored by Umberto Albini and specialized in 1977 in Byzantine studies, tutored by Fritz Bornmann. He was research assistant at the same university until 1981 and lecturer until 1986, when he became full professor of Classical Philology at the University of Trento. In 1991 he moved to Turin to become professor of Byzantine philology, retiring in 2023. After his retirement he was nominated Emeritus (2024).

He was chair of the M.A. program in Classics of the University of Turin (2001–2006), coordinator of the Ph.D. program in Byzantine studies, later Classics and Byzantine studies (1993–1999 and 2000–2004), deputy chair of the Faculty of Humanities (2005–2012), chair of the Department of Classics (2010–2011) and of the Department of Humanities (2012–2018). He is corresponding fellow of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (since 2004) and fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei (since 2024; corresponding member 2018–2024).

He published critical editions of the Ichneutae by , of unpublished letters by Procopius and Michael Psellos , of historical and philosophical pamphlets by and the editio princeps of the De psychagogia by Francesco Filelfo . He translated the Enchiridion by Epictetus (1990), the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (1993), the Greek redaction of the Book of Sindbad (1992) and Manuel Chrysoloras' Description of Rome (2000).

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