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Lorenzo Perilli is an Italian classicist and academic at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’.

He was educated in Classics at the University of Rome (1983-1989), where he also received his PhD in Philosophy. He was awarded several international research grants and prizes, among them a 2-year grant from the | Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (University of Munich, Germany, 1996), and the Prize of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage in 2001 for his studies on ancient philosophy and science. In 2007 he won the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel International Research Award in Germany, following a nomination by the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, where he subsequently conducted his research for about one year. In August 2006 he was Research Associate at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. His work on ancient empiricism has attracted the attention of the mathematician and essayist Nassim N. Taleb at the time when he was writing his best-selling book The Black Swan. The impact of the highly improbable, New York 2007.

Academic Interests
Perilli’s main fields of research include Ancient Greek medicine (Temple medicine, Hippocrates, Galen, Empiricism), Greek philosophy (Presocratics), classical philology (Textual criticism). He is also recognised as an expert in Humanities computing.

Publications
Perilli’s main publications include


 * Filologia computazionale, Rome, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1995
 * La teoria del vortice nel pensiero antico, Pisa, Pacini 1996
 * Menodoto di Nicomedia. Contributo a una storia galeniana della medicina empirica, München-Leipzig, Saur 2004,
 * Italian edition of R.B. Onians, The origins of European thought, Cambridge 1954 (Milan, Adelphi, 2nd ed., 1998)
 * Italian edition and translation of G.E.R. Lloyd and N. Sivin, The Way and the Word. Science and Medicine in Ancient China and Greece, Yale UP 2002 (Tao e Logos. Scienza e medicina nell'antichità: Cina e Grecia, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2009)

He contributed many articles to scholarly journals and conference proceedings.