Gabriele De Rosa (b. Naples 1917) has taught Contemporary History at the Universities of Padua, Salerno and Rome “La Sapienza”. He was director of the Luigi Sturzo Institute in Rome and directed the review “Ricerche di storia sociale e religiosa”.

Tullio Gregory is professor emeritus at the University of Rome La Sapienza and national member of the Lyncean Academy. He illustrated the history of naturalism and of Medieval and Renaissance Platonism and Aristotelianism, and central aspects of European philosophical culture in the 1600s (Montaigne, Gassendi, Descartes, the scientific revolution, libertinism). He taught at the École pratique des hautes études and at the Sorbonne, which granted him an honorary degree. Member of various foreign academies, he founded and directed the European Intellectual Lexicon (CNR). His most recent publications include: Mundana Sapientia (1992); Genèse de la raison classique de Charron à Descartes (2000); Origins of Modern Philosophical Terminology (2006); Speculum naturale (2007); and Giovanni Scoto (2011).

André Vauchez, formerly a pupil at Paris’s École Normale Supérieure and later professor of Medieval History at the University of Rouen and Paris Nanterre, directed the École Française in Rome from 1995 to 2003. He is a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and of the Accademia dei Lincei. His is the author of numerous works, including: Secular Society in the Middle Ages (Milan 1990); Mendicant Orders and Italian Society (XIII – XV centuries) (Milan 1991); and, Religious Experiences in the Middle Ages (Rome 2003). He also presided over the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of the Middle Ages (published in 3 volumes, Rome 1998-1999).