Lorenzo Calvelli
Title
Associate Professor in Ancient History
Institution
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Current Research
Roman Venetia; Torcello and the northern lagoon; Venetian uses of the past; spolia in Venice; Venetian Antiquarian collections (Grimani, Nani); Epigraphy; Stato da mar; Crete; Cyprus.
Recent Publications
• Storiografia e spazio adriatico nella prima metà del Novecento. Tra ricerca e politica, eds. L. CALVELLI, G.M. VARANINI (Rome: Viella 2026).
• Writing and Religious Traditions in the Ancient Western Mediterranean, eds. L. CALVELLI, M.D. DOPICO CAÍNZOS (Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari 2025).
• Falsificazioni e collezioni epigrafiche, eds. L.CALVELLI, G. VAGENHEIM (Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider 2025).
• "The Metropolis without a Classical Foundation. Epigraphic Spolia and Uses of the Past in Venice and Its Lagoon", in Using Spolia, (Re)building Cities. Metropolitan Perspectives on Forms and Meanings of the Antique from the Hellenistic Period to the Middle Ages, eds. L. CIGAINA, M. ESPOSITO, J. ZIMMERMANN (Regensburg: Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg 2025), 221-252.
• "Muratori and Epigraphy: The Novus thesaurus veterum inscriptionum", with T. TOMMASI, in Lodovico Antonio Muratori: An Intellectual in the Republic of Letters, eds. M. AL KALAK, M. CAPRIOTTI, G. SIGNOROTTO (New York: Routledge 2025), 29-42.
• "Dal Museo Nani a Roma. Un'iscrizione greca di Epidauro ritrovata", with G. TOZZI, Archaeologiae. Research by Foreign Missions in Italy (2025), 131-154.
• "Codici epigrafici e sillogi a stampa rinascimentali nelle biblioteche di Venezia", in Antiquarian Literature in the Sixteenth Century. Archaeology and Epigraphy in Printed Books and Manuscripts, eds. J. CARBONELL MANILS, G. GONZÁLEZ GERMAIN (Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter 2024), 281-305.
• "Il progetto The Stones of Venice. A Digital Landscape e il sito web Display – Digital Spolia Layering", with L. SPERTI, M. PILUTTI NAMER, E. DELPOZZO, Marmora (2024), 97-99.
• Writing and Religious Traditions in the Ancient Western Mediterranean, eds. L. CALVELLI, M.D. DOPICO CAÍNZOS (Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari 2025).
• Falsificazioni e collezioni epigrafiche, eds. L.CALVELLI, G. VAGENHEIM (Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider 2025).
• "The Metropolis without a Classical Foundation. Epigraphic Spolia and Uses of the Past in Venice and Its Lagoon", in Using Spolia, (Re)building Cities. Metropolitan Perspectives on Forms and Meanings of the Antique from the Hellenistic Period to the Middle Ages, eds. L. CIGAINA, M. ESPOSITO, J. ZIMMERMANN (Regensburg: Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg 2025), 221-252.
• "Muratori and Epigraphy: The Novus thesaurus veterum inscriptionum", with T. TOMMASI, in Lodovico Antonio Muratori: An Intellectual in the Republic of Letters, eds. M. AL KALAK, M. CAPRIOTTI, G. SIGNOROTTO (New York: Routledge 2025), 29-42.
• "Dal Museo Nani a Roma. Un'iscrizione greca di Epidauro ritrovata", with G. TOZZI, Archaeologiae. Research by Foreign Missions in Italy (2025), 131-154.
• "Codici epigrafici e sillogi a stampa rinascimentali nelle biblioteche di Venezia", in Antiquarian Literature in the Sixteenth Century. Archaeology and Epigraphy in Printed Books and Manuscripts, eds. J. CARBONELL MANILS, G. GONZÁLEZ GERMAIN (Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter 2024), 281-305.
• "Il progetto The Stones of Venice. A Digital Landscape e il sito web Display – Digital Spolia Layering", with L. SPERTI, M. PILUTTI NAMER, E. DELPOZZO, Marmora (2024), 97-99.
Forthcoming Publications
• Pratiche della scrittura e tradizioni religiose nella Venetia fra culture indigene e mondo romano, eds. L. CALVELLI, G. CRESCI MARRONE (Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari).
• "Gods, Lions and Antiquities: Strategies of Colonial Archaeology in Venetian Cyprus and Crete", in Stato da Mar: The Venetian Mediterranean as a Cultural and Artistic Space, eds. D. COOPER, G. MARKOU (Turnhout: Brepols).
• "1412–1452. Cyriaque d'Ancône et le monde grec", in Histoire mondiale de la Grèce, ed. T. ANASTASSIADIS et al. (Athens: École française d'Athènes).
• "Gods, Lions and Antiquities: Strategies of Colonial Archaeology in Venetian Cyprus and Crete", in Stato da Mar: The Venetian Mediterranean as a Cultural and Artistic Space, eds. D. COOPER, G. MARKOU (Turnhout: Brepols).
• "1412–1452. Cyriaque d'Ancône et le monde grec", in Histoire mondiale de la Grèce, ed. T. ANASTASSIADIS et al. (Athens: École française d'Athènes).