Federico Alpi

Affiliated researcher

alpi@fscire.it

Research interests

Armenian civilization and its contacts with the surrounding worlds between 7th and 14th century.

Education, academic and professional experience

Since March 2023 he has been a fixed-term researcher (type “a”) in Armenian Studies (STAA-01/M, previously L-OR/13) at the University of Florence, within the PRIN project The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed and its Translations, coordinated by Alberto Melloni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia).

From August 2020 to July 2022 he was a research fellow at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Between September 2019 and July 2020 he served as FSCIRE’s representative in Work Package 3 (Data Management) and Work Package 4 (Technical Requirements, Conceptual Design and Validation) of the RESILIENCE project (EU call INFRADEV-02-2019-2020, funded by H2020-EU.1.4.1.1, ID 871127). Since then, he has contributed to FSCIRE’s activities related to digital humanities and the development of digital tools for religious studies.

From October 2018 to July 2020 he was a junior research fellow at FSCIRE and, since 2018, he has coordinated for the Foundation the edition of the Armenian section of the Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta (Corpus Christianorum).

From 2016 to 2018 he was a research fellow at the University of Bologna, within the POPLAMA project, The Universal Rome in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Perceptions of the Orient at the Papal Court in the Late Middle Ages.

He graduated in Armenian Studies at the University of Bologna and obtained his PhD in Oriental Studies at the University of Pisa in 2015.

During his academic training he carried out research abroad: in 2008 at the Central Institute of Manuscripts in Yerevan (Armenia), and in 2013, 2014, and 2015, spending one trimester per year at the University of Oxford.

Since 2009 he has been a member of AIEA (Association internationale des études arméniennes).

Featured publications

Articles

F. Alpi, P. D’Agostino, Negotiating the Union: Epistolary Exchange between the Greek and Armenian Churches in the 13th Century: the Documents, «Orientalia Christiana Periodica» 86, 2 (2020), pp. 465-518.

F. Alpi, Il dibattito sul primato di Pietro in Armenia fra XIV e XV secolo: la testimonianza del Girkՙ Ułłapՙaṙacՙ di Mxitՙaričՙ Aparanecՙi, «Cristianesimo nella Storia» 41, 1 (2020), pp. 47-142.

F. Alpi, Medical Fragments in the Letters of Grigor Magistros, «Orientalia Christiana Periodica» 86 (2020), pp. 1-30.

F. Alpi, Ex oriente haeresis? Eresie armene fra il Medioevo e l’Ottocento, «Nuova Secondaria» 37, 9 (June 2020), pp. 36-39.

F. Alpi, M.V. Casella, Armena Natione: Investigating Traces of Armenian Presence in Ancient and Late-Antiquity Adriatic, «Wiener Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte online (WBAGon)» 2 (2020), pp. 1-13.

F. Alpi, Reuse of Byzantine Models in the Letters of Grigor Magistros Pahlawuni (990-1058), «Nea Rhome» 15 (2018), pp. 5-22.

F. Alpi, Le lezioni della crisi: elementi di continuità nell’istruzione in Armenia fra XI e XIV secolo, in Armenia, Caucaso e Asia Centrale. Ricerche 2018, ed. C. Frappi, «Eurasiatica» 11 (2018), pp. 45-63.

F. Alpi, In Magna Armenia: appunti sugli Armeni nella Caffa del XIV secolo, «Mélanges de l’École française de Rome – Moyen Âge» 130 (2018), pp. 73-83.

F. Alpi, Imperi e fedi a confronto: la corrispondenza fra Leone III e ‘Umar II (VIII secolo), «Adamantius» 23 (2017), pp. 1-9.

F. Alpi, Sull’origine e la fine di Grigor Magistros Pahlawuni, «Rassegna Armenisti Italiani» 18 (2017), pp. 19-29.

F. Alpi, R. Batisti, V. Melis (eds.), Proceeding of the Internationa Workshop “Contact Phenomena Between Greek and Latin and Peripheral Languages in the Mediterranean Area (1200 B.C. – 600 A.D.)” (Associazione Culturale Rodopis-Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Filologia Letteratura e Linguistica, 13-14 Apil 2015), «Rhesis» 7,1 (2016).

F. Alpi, L’identificazione fra tondrachiani e pauliciani e la testimonianza della Lettera n. 4 (K67) di Grigor Magistros, in Al crocevia delle civiltà. Ricerche su Caucaso e Asia Centrale, eds. A. Ferrari, D. Guizzo, «Eurasiatica» 1 (2014), pp. 51-75.

F. Alpi, La Storia del Popolo degli Arcieri di Grigor di Akner: i modi della narrazione, «Bazmavep» 149 (2010), pp. 673-83.

F. Alpi, Sistemi per la traslitterazione dell’armeno nella catalogazione bibliotecaria: la scelta del Dipartimento di Paleografia e Medievistica dell’Università di Bologna, «BIBLIOTIME» 13 (2010), http://www.aib.it/aib/sezioni/emr/bibtime/num-xiii-2/alpi.htm

Chapters in books

M. Büchler, S. Riegert, F. Alpi, F. Cadeddu, Towards big religious data: RESILIENCE research infrastructure for data on religion in the digital age, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Digital Tools & Uses Congress, (DTUC ’20) New York, Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, pp. 1–5, Doi: 10.1145/3423603.3424007

F. Alpi, Microlessico medico armeno, in Parlare la medicina: fra lingue e culture, nello spazio e nel tempo, ed. N. Reggiani, Florence, Le Monnier, 2018, pp. 326-336.

F. Alpi, Grigor Pahlawowni Magistros: un esempio riuscito di reazione culturale alla crisi politica nell’Armenia dell’undicesimo secolo, in Crisi: immagini interpretazioni e reazioni nel mondo greco, latino e bizantino, eds. R. Angiolillo, E. Elia, E. Nuti, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2015, pp. 293-303.

Dictionary/encyclopedias/catalogs entries

F. Alpi, Giovanni Vacca, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. XCVII, Rome, Treccani, 2020, https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-vacca_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/.

Conferences, seminars and workshops

22 January 2021, Notes on the textual transmission of Kirakos Ganjakecՙi’s History, conference Armenian through the Ages: Linguistic and Philological Perspectives, University of Oxford, Oxford (online).

15 October 2020, Towards Big Religious Data: RESILIENCE, Research Infrastructure for Data on Religion in the Digital Age, with Marco Büchler, Francesca Cadeddu, Sarah Riegert, conference Data and Digital Humanities (https://ddh20.sciencesconf.org/), Hammamet, Tunisia (online).