Alessandro Barbero

Alessandro Barbero ( born April 30, 1959 in Turin ) is an Italian historian and university professor.

Biography

After schooling, he studied history at the University of Turin and graduated in 1981 with a thesis about the Middle Ages from. He then completed a postgraduate course at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and joined in 1984 after winning a competition for the position of researcher at the University of Tor Vergata.

In 1998 he became Professor of Medieval History außerdordentlicher at the Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy at the Università del Piemonte Orientale in Vercelli, before he was appointed a full professor there in 2004.

For his services to him the Knight's Cross of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres conferred.

Publications

His most important publications on the history include:

• Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 1998
• The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire, 2007, ISBN 0802715710
• Charlemagne. Father of Europe, 2007, ISBN 3608940308

He is also an author of essays and novels, as well as working as an employee of the journal Storica and the daily newspapers La Stampa and Il Sole 24 Ore. In addition, since 2007 he has expert on historical customs and costumes of the broadcast television stations in Radiotelevisione Italiana Science Show Superquark.

For his novel The beautiful life of the nobleman Robert Pyle and the wars of the other (Bella vita e guerre altrui di Mr. Pyle, gentiluomo ) in 1996, he was awarded the Premio Strega.