Alberto Melloni is an Italian church historian, full professor at the University of Modena Reggio Emilia, Unesco Chairholder of the Chair on Religious Pluralism & Peace at Sapienza, Università di Roma and secretary of the Fscire -- Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna-Palermo-Venice. He has devoted himself in particular to the study of church councils and the Second Vatican Council, medieval canon law, the history of the papacy, several catholic institutions like the conclave and the history of the desire for Christian unity. holds the UNESCO Chair in Religious Pluralism and Peace at the Faculty of Law, Sapienza University of Rome, and is a national member of the Accademia dei Lincei and secretary of the Giovanni XXIII Foundation for Religious Sciences. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)