Luciano Canfora

Il PCI e la politica estera staliniana negli archivi di Mosca, about criticism of Palmiro Togliatti and the Italian Communist Party.

[4] Education and academic career Among Italy's leading philologists,[5] a student of the historian of antiquity Ettore Lepore,[6] Luciano Canfora is the son of the historian of philosophy Fabrizio Canfora and the Latinist and Greek scholar Rosa Cifarelli, both professors at the Quinto Orazio Flacco high school in Bari, as well as anti-fascist protagonists of the city's cultural and civic life after World War II.

[7] He graduated in Humanities with a thesis in Roman history in 1964 and received his postgraduate degree in Classics from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

He is an elzevirista for Corriere della Sera and contributes to Il Calendario del Popolo, on which he has a regular column entitled Brother Babeuf.

[10] He coordinated and directed, together with Diego Lanza and Giuseppe Cambiano, Lo spazio letterario della Grecia antica for Salerno editore (1992-1996), a collective work on the different characters of Greco-antique philology, Ancient Greek literature and its persistence.

[11] In 2020 Luciano Canfora won the historical scientific section of the Acqui Award of History[12].