Antonio Rigo

Antonio Rigo is a Full Professor of Byzantine Civilization at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He holds a doctorate from Bologna and has served as Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Basilicata (1994-2001) before joining Ca' Foscari in 2001. His research focuses on Byzantine and post-Byzantine literature, religious history, ascetic-spiritual texts, heretical movements, and theological controversies of the 14th century.

• Member of the Teaching Committee for the PhD in Historical, Geographical, and Anthropological Studies (Venice, Padua, Verona)
• Examiner for Italian and Greek academic committees (Apella, VQR, National Scientific Qualification)

His research spans Eastern Christendom, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Christian-Islamic interactions. He leads projects on Byzantine anti-heretical compilations and 11th-12th century Byzantine-Latin relations.

Editorial Board Memberships:

• Director of «The Word of the Past» (Florence)
• Member of journals: «Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici» (Rome), «Analekta stagorum et meteorum» (Kalampaka), «Byzantine Review» (Münster), «Scrinium» (Saint Petersburg), «Parekbolai» (Athens-Thessaloniki), «Review of Italian Religious Literature» (Pisa-Rome)
• Member of series: «Corpus Christianorum. Series graeca», «Byzantios», «Études byzantines et post-byzantines», «Fundamentis Novis»

Scientific Affiliations: President of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines (AIEB), member of UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerranée (Paris), Waldemar Ceran Research Center (Lodz), and others.