Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri born in 1968, graduated with honours from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ in 1992. In 1996 he received his PhD in Medieval History at the Università “Cattolica” in Milan. Since 1998 he has been affiliated with the University of Urbino, where he is currently Full Professor of Medieval History. He has taught courses in “Methodology of Historical Research,” “Medieval Antiquities and Institutions,” “History of Eastern Europe” and “History of Christianity,” and he served as President of the School of Literature, Arts, Philosophy from 2016 to 2019.

He is a fellow of several learned societies, he was President of the Unione internazionale degli istituti di archeologia, storia  e storia dell’arte in Roma (International Union of Institutes of Archaeology, History and Art History in Rome) and has been President of the Società Romana di Storia Patria since 2021.

His principal research themes are the history of Rome, the Roman Church, and Central Italy in the Middle Ages, with a specific focus on historical sources and the relationships between historical fact and its representation in imagination. Currently, his interests focus on representations of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages, so-called medievalisms. On this subject, he has published a book entitled Medioevo militante (Einaudi), also translated into Spanish (El presente medieval, Icaria),  into French (Médiéval et militant, Publications de la Sorbonne), and into English (The Militant Middle Ages, Brill). His most recent publications include: Nel labirinto del passato. 10 modi di riscrivere la storia (Laterza, 2020).

He has given numerous invited lectures in Italy and abroad and participates as a guest and/or consultant in several RAI Storia programmes.