Study classes
BORROMEAN STUDIES
The Academy of San Carlo, conceived by Pope John XXIII and founded by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini in 1963, received its first statute in 1976 from Cardinal Giovanni Colombo and a new statute from Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini on September 26, 1994. After extensive planning, on March 20, 2008, Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi founded the new Accademia Ambrosiana. The Academy is intended to gather together the scientific legacy of the two pre-existing Academies active at the Ambrosiana (the Accademia di San Carlo and the Accademia di Sant’Ambrogio), but also to expand to other fields of culture, such as Oriental Studies, Slavic Studies, Italian Studies, Greek and Latin Studies, and African Studies.
The “Studia Borromaica” series, which retains its Latin title, is the official platform of the Borromean Studies Class of the Accademia Ambrosiana. Its mission to collect—as the subtitle suggests—essays and documents on the religious and civil history of the early modern period remains unchanged, but this is projected into a broader dimension, within an “academic” context that requires the specialization of each class, but also dialogue, discussion, and interdisciplinarity.
The Borromean Studies Class comprises approximately 90 Italian and international scholars and researchers who specialize in the cultural period of the cardinalates of Charles and Frederick Borromeo. The research promoted by the Borromean Studies Class spans a wide range of fields: from institutional history (civil and ecclesiastical) to artistic creation (music, painting, sculpture, architecture) to the diverse literary world (poetry, sacred and profane prose, theater, sacred eloquence), within the scientific, philosophical, and theological context of those challenging yet enduringly fascinating centuries.
The Borromean Studies Class has its moment of celebration during the Dies Academicus, a study conference that falls in November and usually lasts two days.
Organs
Chancellor
S.E. Mario Delpini, Arcivescovo di Milano
President
Mons. Marco Maria Navoni, Prefetto della Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana
CLASS OF BORROMEAN STUDIES
Director
Mons. Alberto Rocca
Executive Council
Mons. Alberto Rocca (Director), Anna Maria Cascetta, Emanuele Colombo, Giuliano Ferretti, Roberta Ferro, Alessandro Rovetta, Gianvito Signorotto, Danilo Zardin
Academicians
Matteo Al Kalak (Italia)
Antonio Álvarez Ossorio-Alvariño (Spagna)
Cesare Alzati (Italia)
Jean Robert Armogathe (Francia)
Edoardo Barbieri (Italia)
Sandro Benedetti (Italia)
Claudio Bernardi (Italia)
Angelo Bianchi (Italia)
Marco Bizzarini (Italia)
Marina Bonomelli (Italia)
Elena Bonora (Italia)
Agostino Borromeo (Italia)
Bruno Maria Bosatra (Italia)
John Bossy (Gran Bretagna)
Edoardo Bressan (Italia)
Adele Buratti Mazzotta (Italia)
Franco Buzzi (Italia)
Roberta Carpani (Italia)
Anna Maria Cascetta (Italia)
Michela Catto (Italia)
Olivier Chaline (Francia)
Robert Randolf Coleman (Stati Uniti)
Emanuele Colombo (Italia)
Chiara Continisio (Italia)
Simonetta Coppa (Italia)
Alberto Cova (Italia)
Cinzia Cremonini (Italia)
Giuseppe Croce (Italia)
Giuseppe De Luca (Italia)
Romeo De Maio (Italia)
Claudia di Filippo Bareggi (Italia)
Simon Ditchfield (Gran Bretagna)
Bernard Dompnier (Francia)
Andrea Fabiano (Francia)
Carlo Fantappiè (Italia)
Giuliano Ferretti (Italia)
Roberta Ferro (Italia)
Fabrizio Fiaschini (Italia)
Daniele Filippi (Svizzera)
Mario Fois (Italia),
Maria Luisa Frosio (Italia)
Enrique García Hernán (Spagna)
Massimo Carlo Giannini (Italia)
Marzia Giuliani (Italia)
Odon Hurel (Francia)
Pamela Jones (Stati Uniti)
Robert L. Kendrick (Stati Uniti)
Nicole Lemaitre (Francia)
Giambattista Maderna (Italia)
Bernadette Majorana (Italia)
Massimo Marcocchi (Italia)
Alessandro Martini (Svizzera)
Gian Lodovico Masetti Zannini (Italia)
Marina Massimi (Brasile)
Maria Franca Mellano (Italia)
Giovanni Merlo Grado (Italia)
Marina Messina (Italia)
Frédéric Meyer (Francia)
Daniele Montanari (Italia)
Stefania Nanni (Italia)
Marco Navoni (Italia)
Simona Negruzzo (Italia)
Carlo Ossola (Italia)
Emanuele Pagano (Italia)
Sergio Pagano (Italia)
Antonio Alcir Bernárdez Pécora (Brasile)
Marco Pellegrini (Italia)
Bernard Plongeron (Francia)
Alessandro Pontremoli (Italia)
Jean-Louis Quantin (Francia)
Amedeo Quondam (Italia)
Gianfranco Ravasi (Italia)
Wolfgang Reinhard (Germania)
Francesco Repishti (Italia)
Alberto Rocca (Italia)
Mario Rosa (Italia)
Marco Rossi (Italia)
Alessandro Rovetta (Italia)
Flavio Rurale (Italia)
Nicolae Sabãu (Romania)
Claudio Scarpati (Italia)
Aurora Scotti (Italia)
Gianvittorio Signorotto (Italia)
Alessandra Squizzato (Italia)
Alain Tallon (Francia)
John Tedeschi (Stati Uniti)
Ignasi Fernández Terricabras (Spagna)
Xenio Toscani (Italia)
Robert Trisco (Stati Uniti)
Angelo Turchini (Italia)
Boris Ulianich (Italia)
Jos E. Vercruysse (Belgio)
Anthony Wright (Gran Bretagna)
Danilo Zardin (Italia)
Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron (Brasile)
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Locandina Dies Borromaici 2012
Locandina Dies Borromaici 2014
Locandina Dies Borromaici 2015
Locandina Dies Borromaici 2016
Locandina Dies Borromaici 2017
Locandina Dies Borromaici 2018
Locandina Dies Borromaici 2019
Locandina Dies Borromaici 2022
Locandina Dies Borromaici 2025
Ambrosian Studies
The Class of Ambrosian Studies of the Ambrosian Academy is the direct heir to the Accademia di Sant’Ambrogio founded by Cardinal Archbishop Dionigi Tettamanzi in 2003 with the appointment of the first 18 founding academicians, representing the principal Milanese cultural institutions: the Biblioteca Ambrosiana itself, the Archiepiscopal Seminary of Milan, the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy, the Università degli Studi of Milan and the Università Cattolica.
From year to year the number of academicians has been increased, with the presence of numerous scholars (coming from all over Europe, the United States of America and even China), experts in the historical, theological, patristic and liturgical sciences, in archaeology and the history of art, and any other discipline that can make a contribution to understanding better and enhancing the epoch and personality of Bishop Ambrose.
A special bond of friendship and collaboration links the Class of Ambrosian Studies to the Monastery of the Romite sisters of the Order of Saint Ambrose ad nemus, at the Sacro Monte of Varese. The purposes of the Class include two types of activities: intellectual dissemination and scholarly research, which include study days and conferences, archaeological visits to monuments from the Ambrosian period and of scholarly interest, and especially the annual celebration of the Dies Academicus, which sees the investiture of the new members. The activity of the Class leads to publications in the “Studia Ambrosiana” series.
Organs
Chancellor
S.E. Mons. Mario Delpini, Arcivescovo di Milano
President
mons. Marco Ballarini, Prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Vice President
mons. Marco Navoni, Deputy Prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Director
Mons. Marco Navoni
Executive Council
Mons. Marco Navoni (Director), Francesco Braschi, Silvia Lusuardi Siena, Paola Moretti, Cesare Pasini, Gabriele Pelizzari, Marco Rizzi, Giuseppe Zecchini.
Delegatus Academicus
Clara Bulfoni
Segretario
Emanuele Ghelfi
Academicians
Cesare Alzati (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano);
Christos Arabatzis (Università Aristoteleion, Salonicco);
Pierluigi Banna (Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale, Milano)
Inos Biffi (Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale, Milano);
Allen Brent (King’s College, London)
† Remo Cacitti (Università degli Studi, Milano);
Matilde Caltabiano (Università degli Studi, Milano);
Aline Canellis (Università di Saint-Etienne);
Gisella Cantino Wataghin (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale);
mons. Adriano Caprioli (vescovo emerito di Reggio Emilia – Guastalla);
Patrizia Carmassi (Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel);
Anna Ceresa Mori (Soprintendenza ai Beni Archeologici di Milano);
† Nello Cipriani (Istituto Patristico «Augustinianum», Roma);
Franca Ela Consolino (Università degli Studi, L’Aquila);
† card. Giovanni Coppa (Città del Vaticano);
† Luigi Federico Coraluppi (Università degli Studi, Milano);
Mons. Enrico dal Covolo (Assessore del Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche)
† Lellia Cracco Ruggini (Università degli Studi, Torino);
Michele Cutino (Université de Strasbourg);
Ernst Dassmann (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn);
mons. Mario Delpini (Arcivescovo di Milano);
† den Boeft Jan (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam);
† Yves-Marie Duval (Université Paris-X Nanterre)
Mirella Ferrari (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano);
Allan Fitzgerald (Villanova University, USA);
Ansgar Franz (Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Maiz);
Ethan Gannaway (Saint Ambrose University, Davenport, USA);
Andrea Giardina (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa);
Robert Grant (Saint Ambrose University, Davenport, USA);
Thomas Graumann (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge);
Isabella Gualandri (Università degli Studi, Milano);
Fotios Ioannidis (Università Aristoteleion, Salonicco);
Natalia Kulkova (Università Umanistica Ortodossa S. Tichon, Mosca);
Hartmut Leppin (Goethe Universität – Frankfurt am Main);
Rita Lizzi Testa (Università degli Studi, Perugia);
Silvia Lusuardi Siena (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano);
† Maria Grazia Mara (Università «La Sapienza» e Istituto Patristico «Augustinianum», Roma);
Christoph Markschies (Humbold-Universität zu Berlin);
Giorgio Maschio (Seminario Vescovile, Vittorio Veneto);
Paul Mattei (Istituto Patristico Augustinianum, Roma)
Claudio Moreschini (Università degli Studi, Pisa);
Paola Francesca Moretti (Università degli Studi, Milano);
† Gérard Nauroy (Université Paul Verlaine, Metz);
† Antonio Vincenzo Nazzaro (Università «Federico II», Napoli);
Elisabetta Neri (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris);
Cesare Pasini (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano);
Raffaele Passarella (Università degli Studi, Milano);
Gabriele Pelizzari (Università degli Studi, Milano);
Luigi Franco Pizzolato (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano);
card. Gianfranco Ravasi (Presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per la Cultura);
Roberta Ricci (Università degli Studi, Milano);
Marco Rizzi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano);
Umberto Roberto (Università degli Studi Federico II, Napoli)
† Angela Russel Christman (Loyola University, Maryland, USA);
† Marco Sannazaro (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano);
† Hervé Savon (Collège de France e Université Libre de Bruxelles);
† Gemma Sena Chiesa (Università degli Studi, Milano);
† Paolo Siniscalco (Università degli Studi «La Sapienza», Roma);
Chiara Somenzi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano);
Claudio Stercal (Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale, Milano);
Paolo Tomea (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano);
Norberto Valli (Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale, Milano);
Giuseppe Visonà (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano);
David Voprada (Charles University, Praga);
Chen Yuehua (Zheijang University, Hangzhou, Cina);
Antonio Zani (Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale, Milano);
Giuseppe Zecchini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano);
† Michaela Zelzer (Österreische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien).
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Greek and Latin Studies
The Class of Greek and Latin Studies (Classis Graecolatina) was officially established on November 25, 2010 with the appointment of the Director, the Academic Secretary and the seven Founding Academicians.
At present (2018) it includes 25 Academicians. For the most part they are scholars in the philological, literary and palaeographic disciplines in the classical, medieval and Byzantine fields, above all concerned with the patrimony of texts preserved in the Ambrosiana.
The work of the activities of this Class are published in the “Ambrosiana Graecolatina”
Organs
Chancellor
S.E. Mons. Mario Delpini, Archbishop of Milan
President
mons. Marco Maria Navoni, Prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Vice President
mons. Francesco Braschi, Vice Prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Director
mons. Federico Gallo, Director of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Executive Council
mons. Federico Gallo (Director), Carla Castelli, Paolo Chiesa, Stefano Martinelli Tempesta, Carlo Maria Mazzucchi, Marco Petoletti, Antonietta Porro, Massimo Rivoltella
Academic Secretary
Gabriella Orlandi
Academics
Laura Biondi (Università degli Studi di Milano);
W. Martin Bloomer (University of Notre Dame);
† Marco Buonocore (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana);
Mario Cantilena (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano);
Carla Castelli (Università degli Studi di Milano);
Annaclara Cataldi Palau (University of London);
Paolo Chiesa (Università degli Studi di Milano);
Mariarosa Cortesi (Università degli Studi di Pavia);
Federico Gallo (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana);
Michael Lapidge (University of Cambridge);
Domenico Lassandro (Università degli Studi di Bari);
Luigi Lehnus (Università degli Studi di Milano);
Stefano Martinelli Tempesta (Università degli Studi di Milano);
Carlo Maria Mazzucchi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano);
Carla Maria Monti (Università Cattolica del S. Cuore di Milano);
Claudia Montuschi (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana);
Marco Petoletti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano);
Filippomaria Pontani (Università Ca’ Foscari);
Antonietta Porro (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano);
Michael D. Reeve (University of Cambridge);
Massimo Rivoltella (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano)
† Silvia Rizzo (Sapienza – Università di Roma);
† Antonio Sartori (Università degli Studi di Milano);
Chiara Torre (Università degli Studi di Milano);
† Martin L. West (University of Oxford);
Nigel G. Wilson (University of Oxford).
Activities
- Annual Dies Academicus
- Study days and other study events
- Conference cycles About a codex, About an epigraph, About a text
- Investigations into the history of manuscripts in the library
- Survey of the Greek and Latin incunabula and 16 th century editions
- Creation of a repertoire of all copyists of Greek codices
- Census of codices with patristic content
- Collection of data for compiling a catalogue of manuscripts containing classical Latin authors
- Translation of texts of fundamental significance for the history of the Ambrosiana
- Studies of celebrated Ambrosian manuscripts
Italianistica
The Italian studies section of the Accademia Ambrosiana was officially established on Thursday 27 November 2008 with the appointment of the Founding Academicians by the Chancellor, His Eminence Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi.
The first Dies Academicus was held on 22-23 May 2009, on the eve of the fourth centenary of the Ambrosiana. It was therefore decided to focus on the Italian studies conducted by the Fellows of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in the various historical periods.
Organs
Director
Mons. Federico Gallo
Executive council
Federico Gallo (Director, Alberto Cadioli, Pierantonio Frare, Giuseppe Frasso, Felice Milani, Silvia Morgana, Ermanno Paccagnini, Carla Riccardi
Secretary
Chiara Maria Carpentieri
accademia.italianistica@ambrosiana.it
Academics
Baldassarri Guido, Università degli Studi, Padova
Ballarini Marco, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milano (Director)
Bartesaghi Paolo, Milano
Beiu-Paladi Luminitza, Emerita Università di Stoccolma
† Bellomo Saverio, Università degli Studi “Ca’ Foscari”, Venezia
Bentoglio Alberto, Università degli Studi, Milano
Berra Claudia, Università degli Studi, Milano
Brambilla Simona, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Cadioli Alberto, Università degli Studi, Milano
Cazalé Bérard Claude, Emerita Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre La Défense
Delcorno Carlo, Università “Alma Mater Studiorum”, Bologna
Doglio Maria Luisa, Emerita Università degli Studi, Torino
Domokos György, Università Cattolica Péter Pázmány, Piliscsaba, Ungheria
Frare Pierantonio, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Frassica Pietro, Princeton University, USA
Frasso Giuseppe, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Manni Paola, Università degli Studi, Firenze
Marchi Gian Paolo, Emerito Università degli Studi, Verona
† Menichetti Aldo, Emerito Université de Fribourg
Miglio Massimo, Presidente Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo (ISIME), Roma
Milani Felice, Direttore Biblioteca Civica Carlo Bonetta – Archivio Storico Civico, Pavia
Morgana Silvia, Università degli Studi, Milano
Paccagnini Ermanno, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
† Pasquini Emilio, Emerito Università “Alma Mater Studiorum”, Bologna
Pellegrini Paolo, Università di Verona
Pertile Lino, Emerito Harvard University, USA
Riccardi Carla, Università degli Studi, Pavia
† Spaggiari William, Università degli Studi, Milano
Spera Francesco, Università degli Studi, Milano
† Stella Angelo, Presidente Centro Nazionale Studi Manzoniani, Milano
Suomela-Härmä Elina, Emerita Università di Helsinki
Taccolini Mario, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Brescia
† Tissoni Roberto, Emerito Università degli Studi, Genova
Vignolo Roberto, Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale, Milano
† Vitale Maurizio, Emerito Università degli Studi, Milano – Accademia dei Lincei, Roma
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Slavonic studies
The specificity of the Class is conveyed by its reference to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, understood not so much as a repository of Slavic material, but rather as an integrated cultural system. For four centuries the institution has been a place for the study of its own holdings as well as a meeting place for scholars with a view to the creation of new culture. Over the years it has itself become a generator of history, in the continuous attempt to achieve a balance between its own Ambrosian identity (in the local and ecclesiastical sense, as well as in patristic and literary terms) and openness to the non-Latin cultures that its founder, Federico Borromeo, wished it to include.
Starting from this versatility of the Ambrosiana, the Class’s fields of study are not limited to the heritage of books and codices from the Slavonic area present in the Ambrosiana. They extend to the study of the figure of Ambrose and his tradition in the Slavonic linguistic and cultural fields (both in the Paleoslavonic period and in the liturgical, devotional and theological literature of the Catholic, Orthodox and Reformed areas), as well as historical research into the correspondence, gatherings and writings of the Prefects and the Fellows of the Ambrosiana, and more generally regarding the history of relations between the Ambrosiana (and therefore the Milanese area) and the Slavonic countries, from the 16th century to the present. The work of the class comprises not only literature, philosophy and the humanities, but also those disciplines that are connected to the Gallery and the Arts (painting, sculpture, architecture …) represented in it.
Five areas of work can thus be identified: the dissemination of Ambrose’s works and of the “Ambrosian tradition” (figure, cult, doctrine) in the literature and tradition of the Slavonic countries; Slavonic texts and manuscripts in Ambrosiana; the Slavonic presence in the cultural history of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, and the presence of the Ambrosiana in the history and culture of the Slavs in the 16th-20th centuries; the Biblioteca Ambrosiana and modern and contemporary Slavonic studies, especially in the Milanese sphere; the artistic experience of the Ambrosiana in its contacts with the Slavonic world.
Organs
Chancellor
S.E. Mons. Mario Delpini, Archbishop of Milan
President
Mons. Marco Maria Navoni, Prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Vice President
Mons. Francesco Braschi, Vice Prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Director
Mons. Francesco Braschi, Doctor of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Executive council 2025-2030
Francesco Braschi (Direttore), Rosanna Benacchio, Giulia Lami, Barbara Lomagistro, Maria Plioukhanova, Vassja Velinova, Christian Voss, Peter Žeňuch
Academics (the asterisk indicates the founding members of the Class):
Braschi Mons. Dott. Francesco* (Director) – Milano, Italia – braschi@ambrosiana.it
Alzati Prof. Cesare* – Milano, Italia – cesarealzati@gmail.com
Ambros Prof. Pavel – Olomouc, Repubblica Ceca – ambros@cmtf.upol.cz
Barlieva Prof. Slavia – Sofia, Bulgaria – slavia.barlieva@gmail.com
Benacchio Prof. Rosanna – Padova, Italia – rosanna.benacchio@unipd.it
Bibikov Prof. Michail – Mosca, Federazione Russa – mbibikov@mail.ru
Bojović Prof. Zlata – Belgrado, Serbia – scnet.zlata@eunet.rs
Bonola Prof. Anna Paola – Milano, Italia – anna.bonola@unicatt.it
Brogi Bercoff Prof. Giovanna* – Roma, Italia – giovanna.brogi@gmail.com
Calusio Prof. Maurizia – Milano, Italia – maurizia.calusio@unicatt.it
Codevilla Prof. Giovanni – Trieste, Italia – gcodevilla@gmail.com
Dell’Asta Prof. Adriano* – Brescia, Italia – adriano.dellasta@unicatt.it
Diddi Prof. Cristiano – Roma, Italia – cristiano.diddi@uniroma1.it
Di Salvo Prof. Maria* – Milano, Italia – disalvomaria@libero.it
Džurova Prof. Axinia* – Sofia, Bulgaria – centre_dujcev@abv.bg
Filonenko Prof. Aleksandr – Charkiv, Ucraina – o.s.filonenko@karazin.ua
Franczak Prof. Grzegorz – Milano, Italia – grzegorz.franczak@unimi.it
Garzaniti Prof. Marcello – Firenze, Italia – marcello.garzaniti@unifi.it
Garzonio Prof. Stefano – Pisa, Italia – garzonio@ling.unipi.it
Goldblatt Prof. Harvey – New Haven (CT), USA – harvey.goldblatt@yale.edu
Hannick Prof. Christian* – Würzburg, Germania – hannick@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
Jovceva Prof. Marija – Sofia, Bulgaria – yovchevam@mail.bg
Kuczyńska Marzanna – Poznań, Polonia – marzanna@amu.edu.pl
Lami Prof. Giulia, Milano, Italia – giulia.lami@unimi.it
Lomagistro Prof. Barbara – Firenze, Italia – barbara.lomagistro@unifi.it
Marcialis Prof. Nicoletta – Roma, Italia – marcialis@lettere.uniroma2.it
Marinelli Prof. Luigi – Roma, Italia – luigi.marinelli@uniroma1.it
Marti Prof. Roland Walter* – Saarbrücken, Germania – rwmslav@mx.uni-saarland.de
Mikołajczak Prof. Aleksander Wojciech* – Poznań, Polonia – mawal@amu.edu.pl
Naumow Prof. Aleksander E.* – Suprasl’, Polonia – anaumow@unive.it
Niedźwiedź Prof. Jakub – Cracovia, Polonia – jakub.niedzwiedz@uj.edu.pl
Obolevich Tereza – Cracovia, Polonia – tereza.obolevich@upjp2.edu.pl
Pesenti Prof. Maria Chiara* – Bergamo, Italia – macpes@unibg.it
Petrović Prof. Ivanka* – Zagabria, Croazia – ivanka.petrovic@stin.hr
Plioukhanova Prof. Maria – Perugia, Italia – maria.plioukhanova@unipg.it
Sedakova Prof. Ol’ga – Mosca, Federazione Russa – osedakova@mail.ru
Semjačko Prof. Svetlana – San Pietroburgo, Federazione Russa – svetlanasm08@mail.ru
Sigov Prof. Konstantin – Kyïv, Ucraina – constantin.sigov@gmail.com
Spadijer Prof. Irena – Belgrado, Serbia – i.spadijer@gmail.com
Stantchev Prof. Krassimir* – Roma, Italia – krassimir.stantchev@uniroma3.it
Stern Prof. Dieter – Gand/Gent, Belgio – Dieter.Stern@ugent.be
Temčinas Prof. Sergejus – Vilnius, Lituania – sergejus.temcinas@flf.vu.lt
Totomanova Prof. Anna-Maria – Sofia, Bulgaria – atotomanova@abv.bg
Turilov Prof. Anatolij A. – Mosca, Federazione Russa – aaturilov@gmail.com
Velinova Prof. Vassja* – Sofia, Bulgaria – vassja.velinova@abv.bg
Vitale Prof. Serena – Milano, Italia – serena.vitale@unicatt.it
Voss Prof. Christian – Berlino, Germania – christian.voss@staff.hu-berlin.de
Žeňuch Peter – Bratislava, Slovacchia – peter.zenuch@savba.sk
Ziffer Prof. Giorgio* – Udine, Italia – giorgio.ziffer@uniud.it
Honorary Academics
Ivanov Dott. Ivo* – Sofia, Bulgaria – ivo.j.ivanov@gmail.com
Zelinskij Rev. Prof. Vladimir – Brescia, Italia – vladimir.zelinsky@gmail.com
Rapetti Sergio – Milano, Italia – agostino.rapetti@fastwebnet.it
Late Academics
Zhivov Prof. Viktor Markovič* – Mosca, Federazione Russa († 2013)
Křesálková Prof. Jitka – Bergamo, Italia († 2020)
Graciotti Prof. Sante* – Roma, Italia († 2021)
Rothe Prof. Hans – Bonn, Germania († 2021)
Trovesi Prof. Andrea – Roma, Italia († 2021), nominato in memoriam (2022)
Associate members
Freda Piredda Dott. Elena – Milano, Italia – elena.fredapiredda@unicatt.it
Scarpa Dott. Marco – Venezia, Italia – marco221067@gmail.com
Officials
Freda Piredda Elena, Segretaria accademica
Aleksandra Dykan, Assistente
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Far Eastern Studies
The ties between two outstanding figures of the Caroline and Borromaic periods, namely the founder of the Ambrosiana, Cardinal Federico Borromeo, and the Jesuit Alessandro Valignano, who first promoted the dialogue between cultures, inspire the Academicians’ research aimed at studying and making known not only the cultures of other peoples, but also exploring and positively evaluating other religions and spiritual traditions.
Some practices recommended by Valignano, which we take for granted today but were not regarded as natural in his time, inspired the criteria with which Federico Borromeo directed the work of the first Fellows of the Ambrosiana and the acquisitions of books. First of all, if we wish to have meaningful relationships with other peoples we must learn their language, and prepare instruments for this purpose, such as dictionaries, lexicons, historical and literary sources.
It is also necessary for Western and Eastern peoples to understand each other more fully, while respecting their respective customs and cultures, so following illustrious examples such as that of Matteo Ricci in China or Roberto De Nobili in India. The Class proposes, among its other aims, to examine the constant link between societies, cultures and religions in the Far East, because “religions have left an imprint on the cultures of Asia, have formed links between cultures and at the same time have distinguished them” (Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer).
Academicians
Since 2008 in the Classis Asiatica numerous Japanologists, Indologists and Sinologists have been actively involved in proposing research projects, conferences, publications and involving scholars from Central Asian and Korean cultures. Starting from the 13 Founding Academicians in 2008, we have increased to the 69 current Academicians from 11 countries.
Academic activities
In 2013-2015 the three-year cycle of studies and research touched on particularly significant socio-religious themes, including those of the family and education, the female condition, in particular in Pakistan (Livia Holden), and Buddhism in Japan, India and Tibet (Schimazono Susumu, Lorenzo Maggioni). In the three-year period 2016-2018 a triennial cycle of studies was devoted to the “Arts in the societies and cultures of Asia”.
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Near Eastern Studies
Oriental studies have been strongly rooted in the Ambrosiana since the origins of the collections of manuscripts and ancient prints assembled for Federico Borromeo by his delegates, including Michele Maronita and Domenico Gerosolimitano, who bought books for him from Corfu, Crete, Jerusalem, Baghdad, Cairo and other cities in the Near East and North Africa.
The founder of the Ambrosiana personally cultivated such studies, being interested in Arabic, Syriac and Hebrew, rabbinical exegesis, Jewish philosophy and the Kabbala. The rich fund of books of an Oriental character includes polyglot codices, many of them richly illuminated and dealing with history, science and literature. Hence the proceedings of this Class are inspired by a heritage of extraordinary value, including other cultures such as Iran and Islam, with its disciplines embracing the history of art and science, the miniature and codicology.
Academics
In the Classis Orientalis, Arabists, Armenists, Biblicists, Hebraists and Syriacists work together, promoting publications, seminars and research in keeping their specific areas of competence. The 15 founding Academicians in 2009 have been joined today by another 65 from 14 different countries.
Chancellor
S.E. Mons. Mario Delpini, Archbishop of Milan
President
Mons. Marco Maria Navoni, Prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Vice President
Mons. Francesco Braschi, Vice Prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Director
Mons. Francesco Braschi, Doctor of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Executive council 2023-2028
Francesco Braschi (Director), Matteo Crimella (Designated Director), Carmela Baffioni, Giovanni Canova, Alessandro Mengozzi, Gabriella Moscati Steindler, Anna Passoni Dell’Acqua, Anna Sirinian, Emidio Vergani
Academics
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
Alfonso Arbib, Rabbino Capo, Milano
Carmela Baffioni, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma -The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Malachi Beit-Arié, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Paolo Bettiolo, Università degli Studi di Padova
Roberto Bonfil, Gerusalemme
Eberhard Bons, Université de Strasbourg
Pier Giorgio Borbone, Università degli Studi di Pisa
Gianantonio Borgonovo, Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale, Milano
Sebastian P. Brock, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
Valentina Calzolari Bouvier, Université de Genève
Massimo Campanini, Università degli Studi di Trento
Giovanni Canova, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
Paola Carusi, già Università “La Sapienza”, Roma
Sabino Chialà, Monastero di Bose, Magnano
Levon Chookaszian, Yerevan State University
Riccardo Contini, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
Peter Cowe, University of California, Los Angeles
Farhad Daftary, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Charles de Lamberterie, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris
Daniel De Smet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Alain Desreumaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Riccardo Di Segni, Rabbino Capo, Collegio rabbinico italiano, Roma
Gerhard Endress, emeritus, Ruhr Universität, Bochum
Rosa Bianca Finazzi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Pier Francesco Fumagalli, emeritus Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milano
Paul Géhin, Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes, Paris
S. Em. Claudio Gugerotti, Prefetto del Dicastero per le Chiese Orientali, Città del Vaticano
Albert Guigui, Rabbino Capo, Bruxelles
Joseph R. Hacker, emeritus The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Theresia Hainthaler, Sankt Georgen Hochschule für katholische Theologie und Philosophie, Frankfurt am Main
Amir Harrak, Canadian Society for Syriac Studies – University of Toronto
Richard Hovannisian, University of California, Los Angeles
Jules Janssens, Leuven
Alberto Jori, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Hubert Kaufhold, Università di Monaco e Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Raymond H. Kévorkian , già Université de Vincennes-Saint-Dénis, Paris
Eugene Korn, The Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation, Jerusalem
Dickran Kouymjian, emeritus, Fresno
Manfred Kropp, emeritus Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz
Giancarlo Lacerenza, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
Pierre Larcher, Université d’Aix-Marseille
Oliver Leaman, Kentucky University, Lexington
Wilferd Madelung, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
José Martínez Gázquez, Universidad autónoma de Barcelona
Andrés Martínez Lorca, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid
Maria L. Mayer Modena , Università degli Studi di Milano
Alessandro Mengozzi, Università degli Studi, Torino
Tabatabai Hossein Modarressi, Princeton University
† Moreno Morani, già Università degli Studi, Genova
Craig E. Morrison , Pontificio Istituto Biblico, Roma
Manuel Nin OSB, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Roma
Bernard Outtier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Riccardo Pane, Archivio Arcivescovile, Bologna
Passoni Dell’Acqua Anna, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Angelo Michele Piemontese, Emerito, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Bartolomeo Pirone, Pontificia Università Lateranense, Roma
Alexander Rofé, emeritus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ulrich Rudolph, Università di Zurigo
Adrian Schenker OP, Université de Fribourg (Suisse)
Andrea Barbara Schmidt, Université catholique de Louvain – University of Göttingen
Sabine Schmidtke, Institute for Advanced Study, The School of Historical Studies, Princeton
Edwin Seroussi, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Anna Sirinian, Università degli Studi di Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum”
Gabriella Steindler Moscati, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
Michael Stone, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
David Taylor, University of Oxford
Abraham Terian, emeritus St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, New York
Hermann Teule, emeritus, Nijmegen University
Jacob Thekeparambil, Saint Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute, Kottayam
Roberto Tottoli, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
Julio Trebolle Barrera, emerito Universidad Complutense, Madrid
Josef Van Ess, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Theo M. van Lint , The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
Lucas Van Rompay, Duke University, Durham, NC
Giuseppe Veltri, Universität Hamburg
Vergani Emidio, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Roma
Jan Just Witkam, emeritus Faculty of Arts, University of Leiden
Academic activities
The activities, on the impulse of the Academic Board, the Executive Council, the Scholarly Committee and the Academic Secretariat, in harmony with the general orientation given by the President of the Academy, concern the annual Academic Dies (2009-2018), publications of miscellaneous volumes in the “Orientalia Ambrosiana” series, and initiatives of study, cataloguing and research. The principal seminars and summer courses have focused on Arabic and Jewish codicology and palaeography, the Syriac manuscripts in the Ambrosiana and Arab philosophy. The Academician Renato Traini, meritorious for the original impulse that he gave to the Ambrosian Academy, bequeathed his library of Arabic studies to the Ambrosiana.
In the Class, academic partnerships are active with the Saint Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute (SEERI) of Kottayam, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Tel Aviv.
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African studies
Fostering this research is part of the tradition of the Ambrosiana, which has always been open above all to the study of the antiquities of Nilotic Africa, in particular in relation to Christian traditions. The Academicians of different classes had responded with great interest to the wish expressed by the Chancellor and offered valuable suggestions for the establishment of three initial sections of Berber, Coptic and Ethiopian studies.
Organs
Chancellor
S.E. Mons. Mario Delpini, Archbishop of Milan
President
Mons. Marco Maria Navoni, Prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Vice President
Mons. Francesco Braschi, Vice Prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Director
Mons. Francesco Braschi, Doctor of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Executive council 2023-2028
Francesco Braschi (Director),
Stefano Allovio, Università degli studi di Milano
Alessandro Bausi, Sapienza Università di Roma
Paola Buzi, Sapienza Università di Roma
Mena Lafkioui, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Philippe Luisier sj, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Roma
Patrizia Piacentini, Università degli Studi di Milano
Massimo Zaccaria, Università degli Studi di Pavia
Secretary of the African class studies
Lorenzo Guardiano, Università degli Studi di Milano
Scientific committee
Paola Buzi, Sapienza Università di Roma
† Lionel Galand, emeritus, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
Sandra Elaine Greene, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Philippe Luisier sj, Pontificio Istituto di Studi Orientali, Roma
Harry Stroomer, Università di Leiden
Academics 2014
Alessandro Bausi, Sapienza Università di Roma
Nico van den Boogert, Vlaardingen
Anne Boud’hors, CNRS, IRHT-Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, Paris
Vermondo Brugnatelli, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Alberto Camplani, Sapienza Università di Roma
Stephen Emmel, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
† Gianfranco Fiaccadori , Università degli Studi di Milano
† Lionel Galand, emeritus, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
Mena Lafkioui, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Philippe Luisier sj, Pontificio Istituto di Studi Orientali e Pontificio Istituto Biblico, Roma
Osvaldo Raineri, Pontificio Istituto di Studi Orientali, Roma
Adel Sidarus, emeritus, Universidade de Évora
Harry Stroomer, Università di Leiden
Abraha Tedros, Roma
Pierluigi Valsecchi, Università degli Studi di Pavia
Academics 2015
Paola Buzi, Sapienza Università di Roma
† Gian Paolo Calchi Novati , Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale
Giulio Cipollone O.SS.T., Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Roma
Alessandro Gori, Università di Copenhagen
Sandra Elaine Greene, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Vincent Laisney O.S.B, Pontificio Istituto Biblico, Roma
† Karl-Gottfried Prasse, Università di Copenhagen
Fabio Viti, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Academics 2017
Shiferaw Bekele, Ethiopian Academy of Sciences, Università di Addis Abeba
Robert Beylot, CNRS, LEM-Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes-UMR 8584, Paris
Paulo Fernando De Moraes Farias, British Academy, University of Birmingham
Julien Eileen, Indiana University, Bloomington
Thomas Conrad McCaskie, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Piet Reesink, Accademia Ambrosiana
† Ibrahima Sow , Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Università degli Studi Ca’ Foscari di Venezia
Jean-Louis Triaud, emeritus, Univérsité de Provence
Academics 2023
Stefano Allovio, Università degli Studi di Milano
Mohamed Meouak, Universidad de Cádiz
Mariano Pavanello, Sapienza Università di Roma
Patrizia Piacentini, Università degli Studi di Milano
Tassadit Yacine, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) – Collège de France, Paris
Massimo Zaccaria, Università degli Studi di Pavia
Academic activities
The 2014 Dies Academicus: “Africa, the Mediterranean East and Europe. Traditions and cultures
compared.”
II Dies Academicus of 2015: “Person, transcendence and powers in Africa.”
III Dies Academicus of 2017: “Written sources on Africa and their studies.”
IV Dies Academicus of 2018: “Time and History in Africa.”
V Dies Academicus of 2019: “Africa in the world, the world in Africa.”