Lorenzo Rizzelli was born on October 26, 1982, in Poggiardo (south – east Italy). He is an Italian philosopher and arabist. After being awarded a scholarship by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, based on academic achievements, in 2005 he had the chance to delve into specific aspects related to advanced Arabic grammar at the Mezzeh Institute of Arabic language for foreign speakers of Damascus, where he attained a certificate of fifth level. He obtained a BA degree in Euro – Mediterranean Languages and Literatures in 2004 (110/110 cum laude) and a MA degree in Modern Languages for International Communication in 2008 (110/110 cum laude), at the University of Salento (Italy).

His academic studies were focused on Arabic grammar and the ancient Arabic literary production. In particular, he examined the Arabic poetical collection of the “Luzumiyyat” by poet philosopher Abu al ‘Ala al Ma‘arry in the original Arabic language, in order to identify the core tenets underpinning the philosophical thought of the Arabic writer. On his personal profile of academia.edu, he published three papers related to Arabic philosophy and Al Ma ‘arry (two in Italian language and one in English language).

At the beginning of 2011, he taught Italian language at the Italian Cultural Centre “Dante Alighieri” based in Alexandria, Egypt. In September 2011, he published his philosophical treatise in Italian language entitled “Lo spirit umano come forza purificatrice del male – Sistema filosofico simbolico integrato” (Akademos Edizioni), as a result of the first systematization of his philosophical material. In December 2015, he obtained a UK Naric Statement of Comparability certifying the total correspondence between the Italian academic qualifications and the British ones.

Between 2015 and 2019, he worked on the English adaptation of the Italian version of his basic philosophical work published in 2011. In August 2019, he completed the first project of his philosophical symbolic system, consisting of an English treatise including the philosophical material resulting from the explanation of the 18 basic embryonal symbols and the 81 symbolic compounds of his philosophical system as well as the grammatical contents covering two thirds of the entire work. All the data related to the evolution of the philosophical symbolic system are detailed in the “Chronological table of the philosophical system”.

He has just received an unconditional offer for the MA course in Applied Linguistics and Communication from Birkbeck, University of London.