Giusto Traina

Giusto Traina (born 1959) is a prominent Italian ancient historian and Byzantinist.

Since 2011 he has been a professor of Roman history at Sorbonne Université and, since 2023, also at the Università del Salento.

He was awarded the Premio Nazionale 'Cherasco Storia' (2011) for his book La resa di Roma.

In the Anglophone world he is most noted for his book 428 AD : An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire (Princeton, 2009), in which he which gives a panoramic view across the geographical extents of the Roman Empire in a single year.

[2] Publication list at the Comité Français des Études Byzantines (CFSB): http://www.cfeb.org/curiculum/mb_traina.pdf.