Antonio Gerace

Antonio Gerace, He holds a PhD in Religious Studies from KU Leuven. In Belgium, his research focused on the development of Biblical studies in the Early Modern Low Countries. He has co-authored numerous publications, spanning from medieval philosophy to early modern history, including his first monograph, Biblical Scholarship in Leuven in the Golden Sixteenth Century (Göttingen: V&R, 2019). From 2018 to 2023, he was a postdoctoral fellow at FSciRe in Bologna, where he focused on the education of the clergy before the Council of Trent, publishing a second monograph titled Un manuale per il clero (Bologna: Marietti, 2024). Since 2024, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bologna, working on the political theology of Renaissance Rome (PRIN 2022 MUR: 2022BXT33X_002 The Renaissance Papacy’s Political Theology and Its Projects of Religious Reform; P.I. Andrea Annese). During this time, he co-edited The Renaissance Papacy’s Projects of Religious Reform between Early Christianity and ‘Catholic Orientalism’ (Göttingen: V&R, 2025).