Marcello De Martino

Marcello De Martino, PhD is a linguist, philologist, and historian of religions. Former professor (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA; Institute of Asian Studies of Madras, India; University of Pennsylvania, USA), he is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the Società Italiana di Storia delle Religioni. He wrote many innovative essays on the linguistic theories of Western (Latin and Greek) and Eastern grammarians (Sanskrit and Tamil), a biography of the Romanian historian of religions Mircea Eliade (Roma 2008), a monograph on the identity of the secret tutelary deity of Rome (Rome 2011), Arcana verba I (Rome 2013) and Arcana verba II (Bari 2015)