Phd in HISTORY OF EUROPE

email: marco.dibranco@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649911
building: Lettere e Filosofia - P.le Aldo Moro, 5 - CU003

Marco Di Branco is an historian serving as a research fellow at the Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. He is author of many books and articles, whose content spans from Late antiquity to Byzantine and Islamic history and archaeology. His current research projects concern the Arabic vision of Greek and Roman history and the history and archaeology of the Islamic presence in Italy (IX-X century CE). He was a member of the research team of the ERC project “Greek into Arabic” and was involved in a project on the Muslim presence in Southern Italy in the Middle Ages financed by the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom.
Currently, he is Marie Curie fellow with a project concerning the Arabic translation of the Historiae adversus paganos by Paulus Orosius (X century CE).