Giulio Ciro Lepschy FBA (IPA: [ˈdʒuːljo ˈtʃiːro ˈlɛpski]; born 14 January 1935) is an Italian academic.
[citation needed] Born in Venice in 1935, Lepschy attended the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
He remained in that post full-time until 1997, when he reduced his workload to part-time; he retired completely in 2000.
[1][2] In 1987, Lepschy was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities.
[2] The Academy awarded him its Serena Medal in 2000, awarded annually for "eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, philosophy or music, literature, art, or economics.