Франческо Дал Альо

(Francesco Dall’Aglio), Dr.

e-mail: fra(dot)dallaglio(at)gmail(dot)com

Образование

Ph. D. graduate, History of Europe, Department of Political Studies, Faculty of Political Sciences, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” (Dissertation: “Con cuore bulgaro”: identità, nazionalismo e storia in Bulgaria dal Medioevo all’età moderna, defended on January 25, 2008; Tutor, Prof. A. Biagini);

MA in Languages and Culture of Eastern Europe: Università degli Studi di Napoli «L’Orientale», November 27, 2000 (MA Thesis: La figura del sovrano bulgaro Kalojan nelle fonti bizantine. Mentors: Prof. R. Maisano, Prof. L. Tartaglia)

Публикации

  • Монографии

Tentative Empires: Bulgaria and the Latins of Constantinople, 1185-1261 , Brepols, Outremer Series (General Editor, Alan V. Murray) (Под печат)

Innocenzo III e i Balcani: fede e politica nei Regesta pontifici, Collana del Dipartimento di Studi dell’Europa Orientale, Università degli Studi di Napoli «L’Orientale», 2003, pp. 1-175.

  • Студии и статии

“The Opposition between Bulgaria and the Latin Empire of Constantinople: a necessary Hostility?”, in D. Dautović, E. O. Filipovic, N. Isailovic (eds.), Medieval Bosnia and Southeast Europe: Political, Religious and Cultural Life at the Crossroads of the Adriatic World (Kalamazoo: ARC Humanities Press) (Под печат)

“The Interaction between Nomadic and Sedentary Peoples on the Lower Danube: the Cumans and the ‘Second Bulgarian Empire’”, in Florin Curta and Bogdan-Petru Maleon (eds.), The Steppe Lands and the World Beyond Them. Studies in Honor of Victor Spinei on His 70th Birthday, (Iaşi: Editura Universității “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, 2013), pp. 299-312;

Propter multos nostros contrarios: le disavventure dei legati bulgari e pontifici nei primi anni del tredicesimo secolo”, Mélanges de l’École française de Rome – Moyen Âge [En ligne], 125/1 (2013);

“The Second Bulgarian kingdom and the Latin Empire of Constantinople: a general overview”, Palaeobulgarica 37/1 (2013), pp. 109-117;

“Shifting Capitals and Shifting Identities: Pliska, Preslav, Tărnovo and the Self-Perception of a Medieval nation”, Bulgaria Medievalis 2 (2011), pp. 587-601;

“Crusading in a Nearer East: the Balkan Politics of Honorius III and Gregory IX (1221-1241), in M. Balard (ed.), La Papauté et les croisades / The Papacy and the Crusades. Actes du VIIe Congrès de la Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East/ Proceedings of the VIIth Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 173-184;

“Qualche considerazione sulla fondazione del ‘Secondo regno Bulgaro’”, Ricerche Slavistiche 9 (55) (2011), pp. 55-64;

In ipsa silva longissima Bulgariae: Western Chroniclers of the Crusades and the Bulgarian Forest”, Bulgaria Mediaevalis 1 (2010), pp. 405-418;

“La nazione prima del nazionalismo: Paisij Hilendarski e la Istorija Slavenobolgarskaja”, Europa Orientalis 29 (2010), pp. 225-254;

Contra perfidum Assanum: Gregorio IX e il progetto di crociata contro Bosnia e Bulgaria, 1235-1241”, Rivista Storica Italiana, CXXI/3 (2009), pp. 991-1027;

“The Military Alliance between the Cumans and Bulgaria from the Establishment of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom to the Mongol Invasion”, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, 16 (2008/2009), pp. 29-54;

“Quel che è di Cesare, quel che è di Dio: i Balcani tra cattolicesimo, ortodossia e ragion di stato, 1185-1241”, in Gli studi slavi in Italia oggi. Atti del IV Congresso italiano di slavistica (Udine, 20-23 settembre 2006) (Udine: Editrice Universitaria Udinese, 2007), pp. 137-144;

“La Bulgaria: l’oriente e l’occidente d’Europa”, in Trent’anni di presenza nel mondo (Napoli: Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, 2005), pp. 319-326;

“L’immagine della Bulgaria in Occidente al tempo della IV crociata”, Annuario. Istituto Romeno di cultura e ricerca umanistica di Venezia, 5 (2003), pp. 79-103;

“Magia e astrologia in Niceta Coniate”, in P. Lucentini, I. Parri, V. Perrone Compagni, (eds.), Hermetism from Late Antiquity to Humanism – La tradizione ermetica dal mondo tardo-antico all’Umanesimo. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Napoli, 20-24 novembre 2001 (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 40), (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), pp. 569-576;

“The Bulgarian Siege of Thessaloniki in 1207: between History and Hagiography”, Eurasian Studies, I/2, (2002), pp. 263-282.

Доклади на международни конгреси и конференции

2017 (под печат) National’ Past and ‘National’ Continuity in the Establishment of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, 1180s-1230s, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 3-6;

2017 (под печат) Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di ‘stato’ e di ‘narod/nazione’ nel Medioevo slavo ortodosso?, Quindicesima giornata di studi cirillometodiani, Rome, May 20;

2016 Strategies of Usurpation: Boril, Ivan Asen II and the Concept of Legitimacy in Bulgarian Royal Accession, 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade, August 22-27;

2016 With Pride and Prejudice: Paisij Hilendarski and the Perception of Bulgaria’s Neighbours in the Late Eighteenth Century, International Congress ‘Dynamics and Policies of Prejudice from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century’, Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, June 23-24;

2015 Failure or Renewal? Tsar Boril, 1207-1218 – the Reorganization of Bulgaria and Its relations with the Latin Empire of Constantinople, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 6-9;

2015 ‘As It Had Been in the Past’: Nation Building and Rebuilding in Twelfth-to Thirteenth-Century Bulgaria, International Congress ‘Identity, Ethnicity, and nationhood before Modernity: Old Debates and New Perspective’, University of Oxford, April 24-26;

2014 Imagining a New Empire: Bulgaria and the Latins of Constantinople, 1204-1241, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 7-10; also, organizer of session 206, The Idea of Empire between Bulgaria, Constantinople, and the West;

2014 L’alfabeto e la nazione: Cirillo, Metodio e il ‘patriottismo’ letterario nella Bulgaria medievale, Dodicesima giornata di studi cirillometodiani, Rome, May 16;

2014 Between Past Glory and Imperial Destiny: the Ideological Use of the Past and of the Imperial Idea in Thirteenth-Century Bulgaria, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (MI), May 8-11; also, presider for session 15, Ethnic Identities and Multicultural Societies in Medieval Europe;

2013 “Ad subveniendum Imperio”: the crusades planned for the salvation of the latin Empire of Constantinople and the Kingdom of Thessalonika, International Congress ‘The Fairest meadows in the World’: Crusades and Crusaders in the Balkans, St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, November 7-9;

2013 Between Nation and Separatism: the Patterns of political and Ethnic Allegiance in the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, 1185-1218, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 1-4;

2013 Old Bones for New Quarrels: Medieval History and Nationalist Issues in Southeastern Europe during the Socialist Era, International Congress ‘Empire and Nations from the 18th to the 20th Century’, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, June 20-22;

2012 Competing for the Empire: Bulgaria and the Latins, 1204-1261, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 9-12; also, moderator for session 1303, GIS as a tool for understanding medieval road systems;

2011 The Danube Area and the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Sofia, August 22-27;

2011Nuz et deschauz et a pié”: Building and Losing Fortunes in the Latin Empire of Constantinople, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 11-14; also, moderator for session 1018, Wealth and Trade in the Mediterranean and Beyond;

2011 Bulgaria, Costantinopoli e Crociati (fine XII – inizio XIII sec.): tentativi di Impero, Laboratorio della Bulgaristica italiana, University of Rome, May 27-28;

2010 “Propter multos nostros contrarios”: the Misadventures of Bulgarian and Pontifical lgates in the First Half of the 13thCentury, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 12-15; also, moderator for session 1014, Travelling on the Edge in Southeastern Europe;

2009 Pascua draconum et cubile strutiorum”: the Pontifical See and the Bosnian ‘heresy’, 1185-1241, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 13-16;

2008 Crusading in a Nearer East: the Balkan Politics of Honorius III and Gregory IX, 1121-1241, 7th Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, University of Avignon, Aug. 27- Sept. 1;

2008 In ipsa silva longissima bulgariae”: Western Chroniclers of the Crusades and the Bulgarian Forest, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 7-10;

2008 L’alfabeto come uno dei costituenti essenziali del nazionalismo bulgaro medievale, “Giornata di studi cirillometodiani”, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome, May 19;

2008 The Mountain, the Bandit and the Monk: Popular Forms of Nationalism in Bulgaria, 1762 to 1914, International Congress ‘National identification from below’. Europe from the late 18th century to the end of the First World War, Universiteit Gent, Belgium, March 7-8;

2007 Bulgaria’s shifting capitals, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 10-13; also, moderator for session 527, Cities and Political Ideas;

2006 Quel che è di Cesare, quel che è di Dio: i Balcani tra cattolicesimo, ortodossia e ragion di stato, 1185-1241, IV Congresso Italiano di Slavistica, University of Udine, Sept. 20-23;

2006 Counsels of Caution: Impetuous Emperors and Byzantium’s Bulgarian problem, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 10-13;

2006 The Troy legend in Byzantium and Bulgaria, International Congress “Troy and the European imagination”, University of Bristol, July 7-9;

2005 Age or Consent?: Formal and Informal Practices of Succession during the Establishment of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, 1185-1241, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 11-14;

2004 Brothers in Arms: the Art of War According to Baldwin and Henry of Flandres, 6th Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Bosporus University, Istanbul, Aug. 25-28;

2004 Adrianopolis 1205: from Cultural Misunderstanding to Military Disaster, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 12-15;

2004 The Bulgarian Army in 1944, International Congress ‘World War II: A 60-Year Perspective’, Siena College, Loudonville (NY), June 3-4;

2001 Magia e astrologia in Niceta Coniate, International Congress “La tradizione ermetica dal mondo tardo-antico all’Umanesimo” Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, November 20-24.

Изследователски стипендии

– Research Grantee, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici, Naples, for the academic year 2005-2006;

– Research Grantee, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici (“Federico II” grant for students graduated in Medieval History, funded by the University of Naples “Federico II”), for the academic year 2004-2005;

– Research Grantee, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, for the years 2002-2004

Езици

– италиански (роден);
– английски, български (свободно);
– руски, френски, немски, сръбски (четене);
– античен и средновековен латински, старогръцки и византийски гръцки

Членство в научни организации

– Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
– Associazione Italiana di Studi sul Sud-Est Europeo
– Associazione Italiana degli Slavisti

Преподавателска дейност

2003-present: High School teacher (history and Italian literature), Centro Studi ‘L. Giordаno’, via Pessina 66, Naples;

2002-2003: Non-Stipendiary Assistant to the chair of Byzantine History (Prof. L. Tartaglia) at the Università degli Studi di Napoli «L’Orientale».

2004-2007: During my Ph. D. program at the University of Rome, generic pastoral care and tutoring of graduate and undergraduate students, consisting mainly in supervising dissertations and assisting in researches;

2008-2009: (first semester): Non-Stipendiary Assistant to the Chair of History of Eastern Europe (Prof. Sergio Bertolissi) at the Università degli Studi di Napoli «L’Orientale»;

2008-2009 (second semester), 2009-2010 (second semester): Non-Stipendiary Assistant to the Chairs of History of Russia and History of Eastern Europe (Prof. Lapo Sestan) at the Università degli Studi di Napoli «L’Orientale».