Giuliano Pisani is a writer, classical philologist, scholar of ancient Greek and Latin literature, and art historian who was born on April 13, 1950, in Verona, Italy.
Since 2011, he has been a member of the National Italian Committee of the Promoters of Classical Culture at MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research).
His work includes translations and studies of Plato, Plutarch (in particular Moralia, the ethic writings about the soul care, education and policy), and Marsilio Ficino.
Since 1999, he has worked on the creation in Padua of the Giardino dei Giusti del Mondo (the Garden of the Righteous of the World), which was inaugurated on October 5, 2008, and honors those who made a stand against the genocide of the last century.[2].
1–89 Nel 2017 per la collana Il pensiero occidentale della Bompiani ha coordinato con Emanuele Lelli l'edizione bilingue integrale in un unico volume dei Moralia: (GRC, IT) Plutarco, "Tutti i Moralia", prima traduzione italiana completa, Milano, Bompiani, 2017 (ISBN 978-88-452-9281-1).
ISBN 978-88-17-02722-9 [1] “A wonderful intellectual adventure into the core of Giotto's inspiration and the amazing world of the Italian 14th century” (Antonia Arslan) This book is a journey into the symbolic universe of the painter who revolutionized the concept of space.
In his book Giuliano Pisani takes us into the heart of one of the great masterpieces of Western art: the symbol-laden frescoes of the Scrovegni Chapel.
In his frescoes Giotto shows man's salvation, a very complex project, following the guide lines from a hitherto unknown theologian who worked in the shadow: Alberto da Padova.
• L’ispirazione filosofico-teologica nella sequenza Vizi-Virtù della Cappella degli Scrovegni, «Bollettino del Museo Civico di Padova», XCIII, 2004, Milano 2005, pp. 61–97.
[4] • Terapia umana e divina nella Cappella degli Scrovegni, «Il Governo delle cose», dir.
• Una nuova interpretazione del ciclo giottesco agli Scrovegni, «Padova e il suo territorio», XXII, 125, 2007, pp. 4–8.
Saggi sulla condizione umana tra filosofia, scienza e arte, a cura di G. F. Frigo, Mimesis, Milano 2010, pp. 209–232.
Narraciones, representaciones y metáforas del corazón en el mundo hispánico, a cura di Antonella Cancellier, Cleup, Padova 2017, pp.
by Cesare Barbieri and Carlo Giacomo Someda, Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Padova 2017, pp.
• Il buon governo in Giotto, in Lingue, linguaggi e politica, a cura di Antonella Cancellier, Alessia Cassani, Luisa A. Messina Fajardo, Giovanna Scocozza, Dagmar Winkler, Cleup, Padova 2019 (ISBN 978 88 5495 085 6), pp.
1-176 (ISBN 978-88-572-4363-4) • Giuliano Pisani, The Scrovegni Chapel, Giotto's Revolution, Translation by Laura Orsi, Philip Harvey and Stefan Mattessich, Skira, Milano 2021, pp.
La révolution de Giotto, Traduit par Isabelle Baragan et Maurizia Dalla Volta, Skira, Milano 2021, pp.
• First modern edition of Marsilio Ficino, De vita libri tres, in collaboration with Albano Biondi, Biblioteca dell'Immagine, Pordenone 1991, pp.