Davide Baldi Bellini

Davide Baldi Bellini is a subject expert in Greek culture at the University of Florence. His research interests center on the transmission of Greek and Latin texts as well as on Byzantine culture and Renaissance Humanism. He was a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fellow at I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2013-2014), a Post-Doc Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2014-2015), and a Research Assistant for Western Manuscripts at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon (2016-2019). His scholarly work has been published in a number of international refereed journals and by leading academic publishers. His most important publications include: Il ‘Codex Florentinus’ del Digesto e il fondo Pandette (Segno e testo, 2010); Etymologicum Symeonis gamma-epsilon (Brepols, 2013); Sub voce “etymologia” (Revue d’histoire des textes, 2014); Atanasio, Vita di Antonio (Città nuova, 2015); Il greco a Firenze e Pier Vettori (1499-1585) (Ed. dell’orso, 2015); “I Documenti del Concilio di Firenze e quasi sei secoli di storia” (Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa, 2017); “‘O filii et filiae’: testo, melodia e Fortleben” (Rivista internazionale di Musica sacra, 2018); Ringmann, Waldseemüller and the Philological Cosmography of the New World (Peter Lang, 2018); Aldo Manuzio e le peculiarità greche: le abbreviazioni (Ledizioni, 2019); Pier Vettori: Philologist and Professor (Brill, 2021); Ipnosi turca (Brepols, 2022); “Il libro come simbolo di libertà nel Rinascimento” (Archivum mentis, 2022); “Florence as New Jerusalem in the Documents of Council (1439-1442)” (Brepols, 2023); “Il mondo ottomano come alter ego positivo dell’Occidente. Alessandro Pini tra Egitto, Grecia e Turchia” (1681-1717) (PUP, 2025); “The Council of Florence and the Holy Land Sites in Jerusalem” (Brepols, 2025).