Catalogo Nazionale dei Manoscritti Etiopici in Italia. Report

Gianfrancesco Lusini is Full Professor for Gəʿəz and Amharic Languages and Literatures at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. He is the editor of the journal “Rassegna di Studi Etiopici” and of the series “Studi Africanistici. Serie Etiopica”. Alexander von Humboldt fellow (2001–2002, Hamburg University), and Visiting Professor of the Addis Ababa University (since 2014), he is the director of the “Centro di Studi sull’Africa” at the “Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo” of the University of Naples “L’Orientale”.

Massimo Villa is a Research fellow at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. He has been member of the projects “Ethio-SPaRe” (2014–2015) and “Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea” (2016–2018) at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies (HLCES), Hamburg University. He is currently carrying out research activities in the field of the literature of translation from Greek to Classical Ethiopic. He is also involved in research projects aiming at cataloguing several Ethiopic manuscript collections preserved in European institutions. His monograph “Filologia e linguistica dei testi gəʿəz di età aksumita. Il Pastore di Erma” has been published in 2019.

Jacopo Gnisci is a Lecturer in the Art and Visual Cultures of the Global South at UCL. He previously worked as a Project Curator at the British Museum and as a Getty Fellow and Research Associate at the University of Oxford. He has also held positions at other institutions including the Vatican Library, Hamburg University, SOAS, and The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History. He has been awarded several grants, including a TORCH Heritage Seed Fund, contributed to several exhibitions on African and Ethiopian art, and has worked and collaborated with several museums and institutions such as the Dallas Museum of Art and the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford.

Gioia Bottari graduated in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. She is qualified to restore archival and book goods, paper artefacts, photographic, cinematographic and digital material.