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Elizabeth Lev is an American-born art historian with the good fortune to live and work in Rome. After finishing her studies at University of Chicago 20 years ago, she moved to Northern Italy to do her graduate work at the University of Bologna. Researching her thesis on the Church of San Giovanni and Petronio in Rome, she soon realized that like Queen Christina of Sweden before her, she couldn’t live another day if she didn’t live it in Rome, and became a denizen of the Eternal City in 1997. She started giving tours in 1998 for a small cultural association and passed the licensing exam for guides in 2001. That same year she was hired to teach Art History at Duquesne University’s Italian campus, and has remained a joyful member of the Rome faculty ever since. After a five-year stint teaching Renaissance Art at John Cabot University, she has also recently joined the teaching staff at the University of St. Thomas’ Catholic Studies program in Rome. Writing opportunities soon followed the coursework, with numerous articles in Inside the Vatican, Sacerdos and First Things magazine, the College Art Association on-line as well as a regular column with Zenit News Agency. She has just become a contributor to AOL’s Politics Daily and has recently finished her first biography, The Tigress of Forli: The Remarkable Story of Caterina Riario Sforza, coming out this year from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Press. Her fifteen minutes of fame have included several television and radio interviews, from ABC’s Nightline to the Today Show. She was recently featured in the History Channel’s “Angels and Demons Decoded” and is the host of “Catholic Canvas”, a 10-part television series on the art of the Vatican Museums now airing on EWTN. Elizabeth Lev lives minutes from St. Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican Museums with her three children, Claire 18, Giulia 17 and Joshua 6.
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