Angelo Gargiulo is currently working on a FWO funded project together with his supervisors, Pr. Peter Van Nuffelen and Pr. Steven Vanden Broecke, investigating meteorology in Late Antiquity ('Every thunder means something'). The project aims to offer an in-depth study of how ideas and practices in relation with the weather were woven into Late Antique society and to supplement current environmental history of Late Antiquity, which tends to focus on the catastrophic.
He obtained both his B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, working mainly on late antique Greek prose under the supervision of Pr. Gianfranco Agosti (Isidore of Pelusium, Theophylact Simocatta, Germanus I, but also the 'Metaphrasis Psalmorum" of Pseudo-Apollinaris). In particular, he has been particularly interested in philological and interpretative issues related to the epistolary corpus of Isidore of Pelusium, an author on whom he also worked in collaboration with Prof. Luigi Battezzato, but he has also also always had a general interest in all fields connected to Late Antiquity.
