Baldi, Dino

Giuseppe Dino Baldi is a classical philologist and writer. In addition to his work in publishing and managing, with others, the digital collection Quodlibet "Note Azzurre", he works with the Università di Firenze in the field of classical studies. He has published "Morti favolose degli antichi" (2010), "a very well-documented, fantastic book" (Graziella Pulce in "Alias-il manifesto") in which he relates the most admirable and impressive deaths in Greek and Roman antiquity, detailing how kings, poets, tyrants, warlords, famous men and women and even entire armies and peoples passed away. He has translated Xenophon's "Anabasis" (2012) for Quodlibet and released the essay "Oracoli, santuari e altri prodigi" (2013) together with Marina Ballo Charmet. In 2015, he published "Vite efferate di papi", a brilliant and erudite work that details the vices, virtues, oddities and ambitions of those who, from Peter to Pius IX, took their place on the papal throne. In the introduction to the work, he wrote: «There is no single way of talking about the papacy; the subject is too broad, too compromised and too controversial. In spite of - or perhaps because of - this, the history of the popes is one of the richest and most extraordinary sources of tales in the West after antiquity».