Fabio Guidetti (1983) is an archaeologist and ancient historian. He graduated from Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy's most prestigious institution for the Humanities, under the guidance of Paul Zanker. He has been working as a researcher in Pisa, London, Berlin, and from September 2018 he will be Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. In 2016 he published The Roman empire in 100 dates, acclaimed by the press as “an indispensable synthesis to sail across the main protagonists, battles, political events, major reforms, architecture, and literary works of imperial Rome, whose influence and appeal around the world last to this day”.