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Dr. Alessandro Scafi is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Cultural History at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study at the University of London. He taught Art History at the University of Bologna from 2000 to 2008. He is the author of Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth (London and Chicago, 2006) and has published on various aspects of the history of cartography, pilgrimage, Aby Warburg, and on Italian art and literature, in particular on Dante and Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini. Since 2011 he has presented a series of public readings intended for the general public at the Warburg Institute and since 2016 he has presented a similar programme at the Italian Institute of Culture, London together with John Took and Tabitha Tuckett.
