Valerio Massimo Manfredi (born 1943) is an Italian scholar of archaeology, journalist, TV host, mainly famous as historical novelist. His books have been translated into several languages. During 2004 he adapted his novel Alexander for the big screen. This is not the Oliver Stone-version but a planned movie to be directed by Baz Luhrman. 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, in which the time of the action predates the lifetime of the author. ... Oliver Stone William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known simply as Oliver Stone, is an Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. ... Alexander is a 2004 biopic/epic film, directed by Oliver Stone about the life of Alexander the Great. ... Baz Luhrmann (born Mark Anthony Luhrmann, New South Wales, 17 September 1962) is an Australian film director. ...

He currently teaches in The University of Economics Luigi Bocconi in Milan, Italy. Italian postage stamp of 2002 commemorating the university and Bocconi Luigi Bocconi University was established in Milan (Italy) in 1902 with a generous endowment by Ferdinando Bocconi, a wealthy merchant who thereby meant to commemorate his son Luigi, who disappeared in the battle of Adowa (Ethiopia, March 1, 1896) during... This is about the Italian city of Milan. ...

Bibliography

Alexander novels

1. Child of a Dream (2001)
2. Sands of Ammon (2001)
3. Ends of the Earth (2001)
4. Journey of the Extraterrestrial (2006)

2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

Other fiction works

• Palladion (1988)
• Lo scudo di Talos (1990)
• L'oracolo (The Oracle, 1992)
• Le paludi di Hesperia (1995)
• La torre della solitudine (Tower of Solitude, 1997)
• Il faraone delle sabbie (1998)
• Chimaira (2001)
• The Last Legion (2002)
• I cento cavalieri (2002, short story collection)
• Il tiranno (Tyrant, 2003)
• L'isola dei morti (2004)
• L'impero dei draghi (Empire of the Dragons, 2005)

For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...

Essays

• Mare Greco. Eroi ed esploratori del mondo antico ("Greek Sea", 1994)
• I Celti in Italia ("The Celts in Italy", 1999)
• I Greci d'occidente ("The Western Greeks", 2000)
• Akropolis. La grande epopea di Atene (2000)
• Anal & Oral Sex of the Ancients (2001)
• The Origins of the Word 'Lesbian' (2001)
• Gli Etruschi in Val Padana ("The Etruscans in the Po Valley", 2003)