Alessandro Vanoli

Alessandro Vanoli is an expert historian in Mediterranean history and in the medieval Islamic presence in the Iberian Peninsula and Sicily. A graduate of the University of Bologna in History of Medieval Philosophy and PhD from the University of Venice in European Social History, he has been a professor for almost a decade at the University of Bologna and has traveled around the world to collaborate with academic institutions in Salamanca, Granada, New York, State College (Pennsylvania),...See more

Alessandro Vanoli is an expert historian in Mediterranean history and in the medieval Islamic presence in the Iberian Peninsula and Sicily. A graduate of the University of Bologna in History of Medieval Philosophy and PhD from the University of Venice in European Social History, he has been a professor for almost a decade at the University of Bologna and has traveled around the world to collaborate with academic institutions in Salamanca, Granada, New York, State College (Pennsylvania), Amsterdam or Mexico City. He is the author of several books, including La reconquista, Andare per l'Italia araba, Quando guidavano le stelle, La Sicilia musulmana, L'ignoto davanti a noi, La Ruta de la Seda (in collaboration with Franco Cardini), Il Mediterraneo in 20 oggetti and Invierno. The Story of Waiting. See less