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BIO-NOTES of the Italian Association of Slavists. Dr Szilard has been awarded several international awards and is the author of 16 books and of more than 140 articles. E-mail: prof.lena.szilard@gmail.com SZONYI, Gyorgy E. Gyorgy E. Szonyi is professor of English (University of Szeged) and of cultural, intellectual history (the Central European University, Budapest). His interests include cultural theory, the Renaissance, the Western Esoteric traditions, and conventions of symbolization—early modern and (post)modern. Recent monographs related to the topic: Pictura & Scriptura. 20th-Century Theories of Cultural Representations (in Hungarian, Szeged, 2004); Gli angeli di John Dee (Roma: Tre Editori, 2004); John Dee’s Occultism (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004, paperback 2010). In the making: The Enoch Readers. A Cultural History of Angels, Magic, and Ascension on High; The Mediality of Culture and the Emblematic Way of Seeing. He is on the editorial board of Aries and Aries Monograph Series (E. J. Brill) and several other national and international journals. He is also a board member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE). E-mail: geszonyi@gmail.com TOTH, Anna Judit Anna Judit Toth, Széchenyi Istvan National Library of Hungary. Her research areas are Byzantinology, Greek and Roman religion. E-mail: tothannajudit@gmail.com TURCSÁN-TÓTH, Zsuzsanna Zsuzsanna Turcsán-Tóth is assistant lecturer at the Käroli Gäspär University of Reformed Church, Institute of History, Department of Ancient History and Auxiliary Historical Sciences. E-mail: toth.zsuzsa@gmail.com VAN RIEL, Gerd Gerd Van Riel is Francqui Research Professor and Dean of the Higher Institute of Philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). E-mail: gerd.vanriel@hiw.kuleuven.be Vass, Zoltan Zoltan Vass holds a PhD in psychology from the Eötvös Loränd University. He is head of Institute of Psychology at Károli Gáspár University of the + 350 + Daréczi-Sepsi-Vassänyi_Initiation_155x240.indb 350 6 2020.06.15. 11:04:28