Career
His early studies were in Classics — philology and history, at the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1959 he became Professor of Ancient Christian Literature at the University of Cagliari, in 1969 Professor of Church History at Louisiana Sapienza. He has also taught at the Augustinianum.
In 2011 Manlio Simonetti was a co-recipient of the Joseph Ratzinger Prize.
His academic publications are numerous, privileging the domains of Biblical interpretation (Job, Street Matthew's Gospel etc) in Christian antiquity (eg Origen), Christology (notably during the Arian crisis of the Fourth Century), and early Christian literature (including anthologies).
