Francesco Salvestrini

Francesco Salvestrini is Full Professor in Medieval History at the University of Florence (IT), and has been visiting professor at the University of Bristol (UK), Universität Kassel (D), Hankuk University of Foreign Studies - Seoul (KOR), Université de Tours (F). He is especially interested in ecclesiastical, social and environmental history of Late Medieval Italy and Europe. He studied the Bendictine tradition, the Vallumbrosan monastic congregation, the Tuscan Cistercians, the Camaldule and Sylvestrine monastic orders, Italian Augustinians and Minorites; the municipal law of many Italian towns and cities, with attention to their translation from Latin into Vernacular; and the interrelations among medieval ecosystems, water resources and human settlements. He was the Director of the Project Erasmus+ UNINET in 2019. Among his main publications are: 2005: Libera città su fiume regale. Firenze e l’Arno dall’antichità al Quattrocento. Firenze: Nardini; 2017: Il carisma della magnificenza. L’abate vallombrosano Biagio Milanesi e la tradizione benedettina nell’Italia del Rinascimento. Roma: Viella.