ALBERTO FORNI Born in Rome in 1953, Alberto Forni graduated in humanities at the University La Sapienza of Rome in 1976 with a thesis on Jacques de Vitry (about 1170-1240) supervised by Girolamo Arnaldi and Raoul Manselli. In 1976-1977 he attended the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici in Naples and in 1980-1981 he collaborated with the Italian Committee for the “Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi” in the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo in Rome. From 1982 to 2006 he was a civil servant in the Italian House of Commons holding the position of advisor to Members of Parliament. Author of essays on medieval preaching, the history of historiography, XIX century German historian’s idea of medieval Rome (Ferdinand Gregorovius, Alfred von Reumont) and the Benedictine of Monte Cassino, Luigi Tosti (1811-1897). Alberto Forni has been investigating the relationship between Dante and Petrus Iohannis Olivi since 1995.
Printed Publications on the subject of Dante and Olivi:
A. FORNI, Pietro di Giovanni Olivi e Dante, ovvero il panno e la gonna, in A. Boureau–S. Piron (ed.), Pierre de Jean Olivi (1248-1298). Pensée scolastique, dissidence spirituelle et société (Études de philosophie médiévale, LXXIX), Paris 1999, 341-372; Dialogo tra Dante e il suo maestro. La metamorfosi della Lectura super Apocalipsim di Pietro di Giovanni Olivi nella Divina Commedia, “Bullettino dell’Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo”, 108 (2006), 83-122; L’aquila fissa nel sole. Un confronto tra Riccardo di San Vittore, Pietro di Giovanni Olivi e Dante, in A. Mazzon (edited by), Scritti per Isa. Raccolta di scritti offerti a Isa Lori Sanfilippo (Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo. Nuovi Studi storici, 76), Roma 2008, 431-473; Pietro di Giovanni Olivi e Dante. Un progetto di ricerca, “Collectanea Franciscana”, 82 (2012), 87-156; Aristotele e l’“Ecclesia Spiritualis”. La nuova cittadinanza “di quella Roma onde Cristo è romano”, in “Il mondo errante”. Dante fra letteratura, eresia e storia. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studio. Bertinoro, 13-16 settembre 2010, a cura di M. Veglia, L. Paolini, R. Parmeggiani, Spoleto 2013 (Incontri di studio, 11), pp. 313-358; Pietro di Giovanni Olivi nella penisola italiana: immagine e influssi tra letteratura e storia in Pietro di Giovanni Olivi frate minore. Atti del XLIII Convegno Internazionale. Assisi 16-18 ottobre 2015, Spoleto 2016 (Società Internazionale di Studi Francescani – Centro Interuniversitario di Studi Francescani), pp. 395-437; Montecassino Francescana. Dante e la “pietas” degli alti monti, in Sodalitas. Studi in memoria di don Faustino Avagliano, a cura di M. Dell’Omo, F. Marazzi, F. Simonelli, C. Crova, Montecassino 2016 (Miscellanea Cassinese, 86), I, pp. 377-389; Dante e il Giubileo (I) : L’anno delle “pietre” misericordiose, “Collectanea Franciscana”, 86 (2016/1-2), pp. 65-115; Dante e il Giubileo (II) : Bonifacio VIII, “Collectanea Franciscana”, 86 (2016/3-4), pp. 545-607; Francesco e Domenico sulla soglia di una nuova era. Il tessuto apocalittico di Paradiso XI e XII nella Commedia di Dante, “Collectanea Franciscana”, 90 (2020/3-4), pp. 419-464; Dante e la teologia, in La Divina Commedia di Federico da Montefeltro. Il Dante Urbinate, Urb. lat. 365. Commentario, a cura di A. Piazzoni, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana 2020, pp. 55-63; La vita nova della persona umana nell’escatologia di Olivi, in Peter of John Olivi: Construction of the Human Person. Anthropology, Ethics, and Society. Acts of the Colloquium of Rome (4-6 October 2018), edited by S. Bobilier and R. Thornton, Roma 2021 (Collectio Oliviana, IX), pp. 179-202; Dante e Gioacchino da Fiore, “Collectanea Franciscana”, 91 (2021), pp. 639-701.
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Born in Rome in 1953, Alberto Forni graduated in humanities at the University La Sapienza of Rome in 1976 with a thesis on Jacques de Vitry (about 1170-1240) supervised by Girolamo Arnaldi and Raoul Manselli. In 1976-1977 he attended the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici in Naples and in 1980-1981 he collaborated with the Italian Committee for the “Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi” in the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo in Rome. From 1982 to 2006 he was a civil servant in the Italian House of Commons holding the position of advisor to Members of Parliament. Author of essays on medieval preaching, the history of historiography, XIX century German historian’s idea of medieval Rome (Ferdinand Gregorovius, Alfred von Reumont) and the Benedictine of Monte Cassino, Luigi Tosti (1811-1897). Alberto Forni has been investigating the relationship between Dante and Petrus Iohannis Olivi since 1995.