Manlio Simonetti

Manlio Simonetti (Rome 2 May 1926) is a major Italian expert and scholar in Patristics and the history of Biblical interpretation.

His early studies were in Classics — philology and history, at the Sapienza university in Rome. In 1959 he became Professor of Ancient Christian Literature at the University of Cagliari, in 1969 Professor of Church History at La Sapienza. He has also taught at the Augustinianum. He was elected member of the Accademia dei Lincei in 1997. In 2011 Manlio Simonetti was a co-recipient of the Joseph Ratzinger Prize.

His academic publications are numerous, privileging the domains of Biblical interpretation (Job, St. Matthew`s Gospel etc.) in Christian antiquity (e.g. Origen), Christology (notably during the Arian crisis of the Fourth Century), and early Christian literature (including anthologies) .

Several of his most recent articles have appeared (in prime position in most issues since 2000) of Vetera Christianorum published at Edipuglia for the Classics and Christianity Department of the Universita' degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro (Bari University).

Selected Works

• La crisi ariana nel IV secolo, 1975

• Biblical interpretation in the early church: an historical introduction to patristic exegesis, 1994

• Le scienze patristichi oggi. Questioni fondamentali di contenuto e di metodo, Vetera Christianorum, anno 46 - 2009 - fasc.1, Edipuglia, p.5-15

References

Site Editions du Cerf, Paris

Vatican; Ansprache von Papst Benedikt XVI, Clementina-Saal, Donnerstag 30. Juni 2011

Accademia dei Lincei site, Palazzo Corsini, Rome www.lincei.it