Francesco Benozzo is a research fellow in Romance Philology at the
He is one of the founders of the workgroup on the Paleolithic Continuity Theory
on indo-European Languages, and the founder of a new discipline
that he has proposed to call Ethnophilology.
His interests include the study of medieval texts, the
linguistic field-research,
the connection between written sources and oral cultures,
and the ethnolinguistic prehistory of
He is the editorial secretary of the international
journal Quaderni di Semantica,
and a member of the editorial boards of different
journals
(Quaderni di Filologia romanza, Rivista Italiana di Dialettologia, Quaderni Indo-Mediterranei).
He collaborates with international workgroups, such as
the Instituto de Estudios Celtas (Real Academia
the Asociación Galega
de Onomastica (Santiago de Compostela, Galicia),
and the Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique (
Among his recent books:
Landscape
Perception in Ealry Celtic Literature (Aberustwyth, Celtic
Studies Publications, 2004),
Alfred Basserman: Orme di Dante in
Italia (Bologna, Forni, 2006),
La tradizione smarrita (Roma, Viella, 2007), Cartografie
occitaniche (Napoli, Liguori, 2008).
An almost complete list of Benozzo’s
publications can be found at the site of the University of Bologna.
Other news at www.francescobenozzo.com