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https://www.vaticanlibrary.va/en/school-of-library-science/director-and-faculty-members.html

Antonio Manfredi

Scriptor Latinus of the Vatican Apostolic Library and Vice-director of the Vatican School of Library Science

"The year 1451 would be at the height of the pontificate of Nicolas V, when [Lorenzo] Valla resided in Rome as a Professor at the Studium Urbis, in the good graces of the curia thanks to the benevolence of the Pope who had founded the Vatican Library, the first documentation of which dates back to the very same year, and also thanks to his friendship with the librarian and expert Greek scholar Giovanni Tortelli."

After a degree and doctorate in Medieval and Humanistic Philology from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan under the guidance of Professor Giuseppe Billanovich, he was a scholar at the Katolieke Univesriteit Leuven and at the Vatican Apostolic Library; he joined the Vatican Apostolic Library and was appointed scriptor for Latin, Deputy Director of the Vatican School of Library Science and Professor in Library History.

He is a member of the Editorial Board and the Comitato di Studi per la Storia de la Biblioteca Vaticana of the Vatican Apostolic Library and an ordinary member of the Pontificia Academia Latinitatis, of the Scientific Committee of the journals Archivum mentis and Nuovi Annali of the Scuola Speciale per Archivisti e Bibliotecari, of the Advisory Board of Codex Studies, and a corresponding member of the Istituto Pio Paschini per la Storia della Chiesa in Friuli.

In his studies he deals with manuscript cataloging, paleography, library history and philology, and the history of the traditions of the classics and the Church Fathers, with special emphasis on the Romanesque age and Humanism. He has most recently published, together with Francesca Potenza, the catalog of the Greek codices of the Vatican Apostolic Library of Nicholas V (Studi e testi, 552), and is completing a catalog of Latin manuscripts (Vat. lat. 4195-4241).