Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

CURRICULUM VITAE

GIUSEPPE LA BUA

Associate Professor of Latin Literature
Department of Ancient World Studies
Sapienza University Rome
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5
I- 00185 Roma

Main Scholarly Interests

Ancient religion and literature
Rhetoric and oratory
Augustan poetry and elegy
Receptions studies
Fakes and forgeries in classical literature

Education

1995 Ph.D. Classics (University of Pisa). Dissertation on Hymns in Latin Poetry
1989 Cum laude degree (laurea) in Latin Literature (Sapienza University of Rome). Thesis on The indirect tradition of Virgil s text

Employment and Academic Positions

2019- Junior Research Fellow School of Advanced Studies Sapienza
2022- National Certification for Tenured Full Professor of Classical Philology
2018- National Certification for Tenured Full Professor of Latin Literature
2012- Associate Professor of Latin Literature, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Ancient World Studies
2010-2011 Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Department of the Classics
2010 (Summer Term) Visiting Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder
2005 (Spring Term) Visiting Scholar, University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics
2005- Member of the Scientific Board PhD Program in Classics and Ancient History Sapienza University of Rome
2005-2012 Assistant Professor of Latin Literature, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Ancient World Studies (on leave 2010-2011)
1995-2004 Teacher of Latin and Greek at High Secondary School
1997-2001 Post-doctoral Fellow (Latin Literature), University of Rome Lumsa
1994-1997 Post-doctoral Fellow (Roman History), University of Rome Lumsa
1994-2004 Teaching Assistant of Latin Literature, Sapienza University of Rome

Honours, Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

2010-2011 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship
2010 FIRST Grant, University of Colorado at Boulder (Summer Term 2010)
2007-2008 Research Grant, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Greek and Latin Philology
2005 Tytus Margo Visiting Scholar Spring Term, University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics
2001-2002 Research Grant, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Greek and Latin Philology

Team/Research Activities

2022- Member of the Research Group Falsarios. Falsa et Vera Historia , coordinated by Javier Martinez of the University of Oviedo
2021- PI (Principal Investigator) Research Project Fakes and Forgeries in Literature and Culture (from Antiquity to the Renaissance), funded by Sapienza University of Rome
2017 Member of the Research Group PRIN Nature and Italian landscape in Roman culture from August to Trajan
2015 Member of the Research Group PRIN Center and periphery in imperial Latin literature
2015 Member of the Research Group University Project Public and Domestic Life in the Roman Forum (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2014 Member of the Research Group University Project Texts and material supports of texts in antiquity (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2013 Member of the Research Group University Project Schools in late antiquity; books, texts, history and society in the Mediterranean (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2010 Member of the Research Group University Project Literature, translation and school in late antiquity (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2009 Member of the Research Group PRIN Tradition vs innovation in late antiquity
2008-2009 Member of the Research Group University Project Exemplary texts in the curriculum in late antiquity (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2007-2009 PI (Principal Investigator) Research Project Studies on the late antique scholia and the reception of Cicero s orations
2006-2007 Member of the Research Group University Project Teaching Latin in late antiquity (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2005-2006 Member of the Research Group University Project Priscianus De accentibus (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2005 Member of the Research Group University Project Philology, language and grammatical studies in late antiquity (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)

Publications

Books:

1) L inno nella letteratura poetica latina, prefazione di L. Gamberale, Drion 1, S. Severo, Gerni Editori, 1999, XVI + 537, ISBN 88-85077-49-8
Reviewed by: A. Minarini, BStudLat 30, 2000, f. 2, 681-687; C. Salemme, Orpheus n.s. 21, 1-2, 2000, 266-67; J. Dingel, REL 2000, 288-289; A. Perutelli, RFIC 128, 2000 [2002], f. 4, 4667469; B. Rochette, Latomus 61, 2002, f. 2, 487-489; V. Hunink, Mnemosyne 55, 2002, f. 3, 381-383; N. Devlin, CR 52, 1, 2002, 84-85; Michael C.J. Putnam, Gnomon 75, 2003, 451-453

2) Cicero and Roman Education. The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019, ISBN 978-1-107-068582 Hardback
Reviewed by: C. S. van der Berg, BMCR 2019.11.30; John Alison, CR 70.1, 2019, 88-90; M.P. Pinto, Quaderni di Storia 92, 2020, 277-283; K. Marciniak, BStudLat 50, 2020, f. 2, 782-784

3) Cicerone. Le Catilinarie, Introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento a cura di G. La Bua (De Gruyter, in preparation)

Edited books:

4) G. La Bua (ed.), Vates Operose Dierum. Studi sui Fasti di Ovidio, Testi e Studi di Cultura Classica 48, ETS Press, Pisa, 2010, pp. 272, ISBN 978-884672751-0
Reviewed by: A. De Vivo, BStudLat 2012, f. 1, 363-8; S.J. Heyworth, BMCR 2013.12.21; M. Ohrman, CR 62, 2, 2012, 506-508

5) F.R. Berno and G. La Bua (eds.), Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture and Politics. From Antiquity to Modern Times, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2022

Papers:

6) Revisioni al testo dei centoni cristiani, Giornale Italiano di Filologia 43, 1, 1991, 105-118

7) Esegesi virgiliana antica e poesia centonaria, Atene e Roma n.s. 38, 2-3, 1993, 99-107

8) Quintil. Inst. Or. 3, 4, 9 e la Rhetorica ad Alexandrum , Giornale Italiano di Filologia 47, 2, 1995, 271-282

9) La Laus Cornuti nella V Satira di Persio e Lucrezio De rerum natura III, 1-30, Bollettino di Studi Latini 27, 1, 1997, 82-101

10) A proposito di TRF inc. inc 18-19 Ribb.3 Invigilata Lucernis 20, 1998, 133-150

11) Elementi innici nelle orazioni ciceroniane, Res Publica Litterarum 21, 1998, 134-154

12) Sulla pseudo-ciceroniana Si eum P. Clodius legibus interrogasset e sull ordine delle orazioni negli Scholia Bobiensia, Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica 129, 2, 2001 [2003], 161-191

13) Obscuritas e dissimulatio nella pro Tullio di Cicerone, Rhetorica 23, 3, 2005, 261-280

14) Diritto e retorica. Cicerone iure peritus in Seneca retore e Quintiliano, in Ciceroniana , Atti del XII Colloquium Tullianum, Salamanca, 7-9 ottobre 2004, Centro di Studi Ciceroniani, Roma 2006, 181-203

15) Laus deorum e strutture inniche nei Panegirici Latini di età imperiale, Rhetorica 27, 2, 2009, 142-158

16) Aiebat se in animo scribere (Sen. Contr. 1 praef. 18): Writing in Roman declamations, in L. Calboli Montefusco (ed.), Papers on Rhetoric X, Roma 2010, 183-199

17) Patronage and Education in Third-Century Gaul: Eumenius Panegyric for The Restoration of the Schools, Journal of Late Antiquity 3.2 (Fall), 2010, 300-315

18) Minerva Capta (Ovidio Fasti 3, 809-848), in G. La Bua (ed.), Vates Operose Dierum. Studi sui Fasti di Ovidio, Pisa 2010, 51-63

19) Nota a Calp. Sic. 1, 67s. (e Ovidio Fast. 1, 715s), Eikasmòs XXI, 2010, 239-246

20) Monoteismo e teologia negativa nell innografia latina tardo-antica e nella prima innografia cristiana, Paideia LXV, 2010, 533-546

21) Audes / fatidicum verbis fallere velle deum? (Ov. Fast. 2, 261-2): l ironia del logos nei Fasti di Ovidio, in M. Passalacqua, M. De Nonno, A.M. Morelli eds. Venuste Noster. Studi in onore di L. Gamberale, Spudasmata 147, Olms, Hildesheim-Zürich-New York 2012, 161-180

22) Horace s East: Ethics and Politics, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 107, 2012, 265-96

23) Quo usque tandem cantherium patiemur istum? (Apul. Met. 3.27): Lucius, Catiline, and the immorality of the human ass, Classical Quarterly 63.2, 2013, 854-59

24) Mastering Oratory: the mock-trial in Apuleius Metamorphoses 3.3.1-7.1, American Journal of Philology 134.4, 2013, 675-701

25) Cicero s Pro Milone and the Demosthenic Style: De Optimo Genere Oratorum 10, Greece & Rome 61.1, 2014, 29-37

26) Medicina consularis: Cicerone e la cura dello stato, in P. De Paolis (ed.), Modelli educativi e formazione politica in Cicerone, Atti del V Symposium Ciceronianum, Arpino 10 Maggio 2013, Cassino 2014, 29-51

27) Nihil infinitum est nisi Oceanus (Sen. suas. 1, 1): il mare nelle declamazioni latine, Maia 67, 2, 2015, 325-339

28) Cicerone e l educazione nel mondo tardoantico, Rationes Rerum 5, 2015, 51-59

29) L epifania mancata: l inno alla Pontica tellus in Ovid. Pont. 3.1, Paideia LXX, 2015, 87-101

30) Late Ciceronian Scholarship and Virgilian Exegesis: Servius and Ps. Asconius, CQ 68, 2, 2018, 667-680

31) Cicero nec prodesse tantum sed etiam amari potest (Quint. inst. 2, 5, 19): Cicerone idoneus auctor e maestro dell arte dell illusone in Quintiliano e nei commentari tardo-antichi, in P. De Paolis (ed.), I commenti a Cicerone, Atti del IX Symposium Ciceronianum, Arpino 12 maggio 2017, Cassino 2018, 39-62

32) Intratextual Readings in Ovid s Heroides, in S. Harrison-S. Frangoulidis-T.D. Papanghelis (eds.), Intratextuality and Latin Literature, Trends in Classics, Supplementary Volume 69, 2018, 243-52

33) Iucundus nominis error (Ov. Ars 3, 729): Procri rustica puella nell Ars amatoria, Dictynna 15, 2018 (URL: http://journals.openedition.org/dictynna/1593 ISSN: 1765-3142)

34) Sic cecinit pro te, doctus, Minoi, Catullus ([Tib.] 3, 6, 41): voci catulliane nel ciclo di Ligdamo, Paideia LXXIV, Pars prior (I/II), 2019, 235-248

35) Teaching the Death of Elegy: Lygdamus-Elegies (Tib. 3.1-6), in T. Franklinos and L. Fulkerson (eds), Appendices Ovidiana, Tibulliana, Virgiliana, Oxford 2020, 131-147

36) Man of Peace? Cicero s Last Fight for the Republic in Greek and Roman Historical Fictions , in C. Pieper and B. Van der Velden (eds.), Reading Cicero s Final Years, Berlin-Boston 2020, 79-95

37) Osservazioni sui pseudepigrapha ciceroniani e la tradizione catilinaria : la Responsio Catilinae, Incontri di Filologia Classica XX (2020-2021), 299-324

38) The Poet as a Forger: Fakes and Literary Imitation in Roman Poetry, in K. Lennartz and J. Martinez (eds.), Tenue est mendacium. Rethinking Fakes and Authorship in Classical, Late Antique & Early Christian World, Barkhuis, 2021, 179-96

39) Homo Novus and Nobilis: Cicero and the Formation of the Modern Aristocracy, in Berno-La Bua (eds.), Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics. From Antiquity to the Modern Times, Berlin-Boston, De Gruyter, 2022, 103-118

40) Sen. Dial. 11.9.4-8: Marcello, il felix exul di Seneca e la reprehensio Ciceronis nella prima età imperiale, Athenaeum 110/1, 2022, 92-111.

41) Teaching Cicero through the scholia, in Dennis Pausch and Christoph Pieper (eds.), The Scholia on Cicero s Speeches. Contexts and Perspectives, Leiden, Brill (forthcoming)

42) Intertextuality, parody, and immortality of poetry: Petronius and Ovid, in J. Farrell-D. Nelis-A. Schiesaro-J. Miller (eds.), Ovid, Death and Transfiguration, Leiden (forthcoming)

43) Il linguaggio della satira nell epistolario pliniano, Paideia LVXXII 2022, 157-173

44) Dal vero al falso Catilina: retorica e politica nei pseudepigrapha ciceroniani, in A. Comboni and S. La Barbera (eds.), Le vie del falso, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2023, 77-94

Chapters in Collaborative Works:

45) Enciclopedia Oraziana, ed. Scevola Mariotti, Roma, Istituto dell Enciclopedia Italiana, 2, 1997:
Entries: Inno, 8, 62-68; Acrisio, 10, 296-297; Castalia, 10, 333-334; Danae, 10, 347-348; Dirce, 10, 357-358; Peleo, 10, 461; Penteo, 10, 463-464; Pipleide/Piplea, 10, 464; Pirra, 10, 465; Sileno, 10, 486-487

Book reviews:

46) Bibliographie analytique de la prière grecque et romaine (1898-1998), par les membres du C.A.R.R.A. (Centre d Analyse des Rhétoriques Religieuses de l Antiquité), sous la direction de G. Freyburger et L. Pernot (Recherches sur les Rhétoriques Religieuses, 1), Turnhout, Brepols 2000, pp. 361, in: RFIC 128, fasc. 3, 2000, 381-382

47) Cicerone Prospettiva 2000, Atti del I Symposium Ciceronianum Arpinas, Arpino 5 maggio 2000, a cura di E. Narducci, Le Monnier, Firenze 2001, in: RFIC , 130, 3, 2002 [2005], 379-380

48) Interpretare Cicerone. Percorsi della critica contemporanea, Atti del II Symposium Ciceronianum Arpinas, Arpino 18 maggio 2001, a cura di E, Narducci, Le Monnier, Firenze 2002, in: RFIC , 130, 4, 2002 [2005], 505-506

49) Corpus de prières grecques et romaines. Textes réunis, traduits et commentés par F. Chapot et B. Laurot, Recherches sur les Rhétoriques Religieuses, 2, Turnhout, Brepols 2001, in: RFIC , 134, 2006, 126-127

50) Eduard Norden, Agnostos Theos. Dio Ignoto. Ricerche sulla storia della forma del discorso religioso, a cura di Chiara Ombretta Tommasi Moreschini, Morcelliana, Brescia 2002, in: RFIC , 133, 2005, 342-347

51) Christian Stock (ed.), Sergius (Ps.Cassiodorus) Commentarium de Oratione et de Octo Partibus Orationis Artis Secundae Donati, K. G. Saur, München-Leipzig 2005, in: BMCR 2005. 09. 55

52) Scott McGill, Virgil Recomposed. The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005, in: BMCR 2006.03.31

53) Ingo Gildenhard, Paideia Romana. Cicero s Tusculan Disputations, Cambridge Classica Journal. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. Supplementary Volume 30, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, in: BMCR 2008.03.28

54) Antonella Tedeschi, Lezione di buon governo per un dittatore. Cicerone, Pro Marcello: saggio di commento, Scrinia 24, Bari, Edipuglia 2005, in: RFIC 136, 2008, 1, 84-91

55) John F. Miller, Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, in: Gnomon 84.1, 2012, 20-25

56) S. Grazzini (a cura di), Scholia in Iuvenalem recentiora secundum recensiones et tomus I (satt. 1-6), Edizioni della Normale, Pisa 2011, in: Gnomon 86.7, 2014, 611-615

57) Nazario. Panegirico in onore di Costantino, a cura di Carmela Laudani, Biblioteca della tradizione classica 12, Cacucci Editore, Bari, 2014, in: Athenaeum 107, 2019, 664-666

58) Hosidius Geta Medea. Text, Translation and Commentary (Italian with English Summaries), edited by Maria Teresa Galli, Vertumnus Bd. 10, Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, in: Gnomon 92, 4, 2020, 366-370

59) Caroline Bishop, Cicero, Greek Learning and the Making of a Classic, Oxford 2019, in: Latomus 79/4, 2020, 1150-1152.

60) L. Graverini-L. Nicolini (eds.), Apuleio. Metamorfosi. Libri I-III, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, Milano 2020, in: Athenaeum (forthcoming)

61) B. Delignon, La morale de l amour dans les Odes d Horace. Poésie, philosophie et politique, Sorbonne Université Presses, Paris 2019; in Gnomon 94.6, 2022, 498-501.

62) C. Rosillo-López, Political Conversations in Republican Rome, Oxford 2022: in Classical Review 2022

63) D.H. Berry, Cicero. Catilinarians, Oxford 2020: in Bollettino di Studi Latini 52.2, 2022, 756-59

Public Lectures

- The Zeus hymns of Cleanthes and Aratus, Sapienza University of Rome, April 1999
- Hymns in Seneca s Tragedies, University of L Aquila, Department of Classics, May 1999
- The arrangement and selection of the Ciceronian works in the ancient school, University of L Aquila, Department of Classics, April 2000
- The paradosis of Cicero s De Divinatione, University of Basilicata, Department of Classics, May 2000
- Hymns in the literature of the Augustan Age, Italian Association of Classical Culture, Rome, February 2001
- The ancient commentaries on Cicero s speeches and the ancient Ciceronian criticism, University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics, April 2005
- Problems of Ciceronian Chronology, University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics, May 2005
- Pseudoasconiana: ancient Ciceronian criticism and Servius commentary on Virgil, Sapienza University of Rome, December 2005
- Cicero s speeches in the ancient school, Italian Association of Classical Culture, Rome, May 2007
- Leges, sed retractatum, quae causa recitandi fuit (Plin. 8.21): Orality and Writing in Pliny s Letters, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Classics, January 2009
- Aristocratic Ethics, Orality and Writing in Pliny s Epistles, Italian Association of Classical Culture, Viterbo, April 2009
- Between Poetry and Politics: Horace and the East, Penn University Philadelphia, December 2010, Harvard University, March 2011
- Acting as Cicero and against Cicero: the mock-trial in Apuleius Metamorphoses 3.3-11, Princeton University, Columbia University, March 2011; University of Cincinnati, April 2011
- La negazione della sapientia. Riflessioni sulla reprehensio Ciceronis nella prima età imperiale, Università di Palermo, March 21 2017
- Cicero and Sinon. Deceptive Oratory and Anti-Ciceronian Propaganda in Vergil and the late rhetorical tradition, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, February 7, 2023

Conference Papers

- Diritto e retorica. Cicerone iure peritus in Seneca retore e Quintiliano, paper delivered at the 12th Colloquium Tullianum, Centro di Studi Ciceroniani , Salamanca, October 7th -9th, 2004
- La laus deorum nei panegirici latini di età imperiale, paper delivered at the 16th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR), Strasbourg, July 24th -28th , 2007
- The Restoration of the Schools of Autun: Rhetoric and Education in Third-Century Gaul, paper delivered at APA 140th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, January 8th -11th , 2009
- Writing in Roman Declamations, paper delivered at 17th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR), Montreal, July 20th - 26th, 2009
- Orazio e l Oriente tra politica e letteratura, paper delivered at the International Conference Orientalismo Romano , Rome, November 19th-21st, 2009
- Medicina consularis: Cicerone e la cura dello stato, paper delivered at the V Symposium Ciceronianum Arpinas, Arpino, May 10th, 2013
- Nihil infinitum est nisi Oceanus (Sen. suas. 1, 1): il mare nelle declamazioni latine, paper delivered at the International Conference Omnia pontus erat: il mare nella letteratura latina , Rome, January 23rd-24th, 2014
- Cicerone e l educazione nel mondo tardoantico, paper delivered at the International Conference Tradizione vs innovazione in età tardo antica. Letteratura, scuola, traduzione , Rome, June 9th, 2014
- Intertestualità, parodia e immortalità della poesia: Petronio e Ovidio, paper delivered at the International Conference Ovid: Death and Transfiguration , Rome, March 7th -9th , 2017
- Cicero nec prodesse tantum sed etiam amari potest (Quint. Inst. 2.5.19): Cicerone idoneus auctor e maestro dell arte dell illusione in Quintiliano e nei commentari tardo-antichi, paper delivered at the VIII Symposium Arpinas, Arpino, May 12th, 2017
- Intratextual Readings in Ovid s Heroides , paper delivered at 11th Trends in Classics Conference Intratextuality and Roman Literature , Thessaloniki, May 25th-27th, 2017
- Cicero s Last Fight for the Republic in Greek and Roman Historians, paper delivered at 11th Celtic Classics Conference, University of St. Andrews, 11th-14th July, 2018
- Celebrating the Death of Elegy: Lygdamus Elegies (Tib. 3.1-6), paper delivered at the International Conference Constructing Authors and Readers in the Appendices Vergiliana, Tibulliana, and Ovidiana , Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, September, 6th-8th, 2018
- Novitas e nobilitas nella tradizione biografica dell Arpinate, paper delivered at the International Conference Ritratti di Cicerone-Portraying Cicero , Rome, May, 15th-17th, 2019
- Teaching Cicero through the Scholia, Leiden online workshop, 30th June 2020/28th June 2021
- Religio e dissimulatio: culto e superstizione nella strategia retorica ciceroniana, paper delivered at the Settimana Dottorale Triestina (September, 21st-23th, 2021)
- Didattica della storia e laus principis: la retorica del paesaggio nei Panegyrici Latini, paper delivered at the Conference La natura in parola. Visioni del paesaggio nella letteratura latina , Padova, February, 16th-17th, 2022
- Cicerone maestro dell arte dell illusione, paper delivered at the II Giornata Mondiale della Lingua Latina , Roma, University of Rome Tor Vergata , 7th April, 2022
- Presentation of the Proceedings of the International Conference Cicero Digitalis, paper delivered at the Conference Adsum igitur. Cicerone nel secolo bravissimo: Antichistica digitale e prospettive di studio , Vercelli, May, 19th, 2022
- Dal vero al falso Catilina: retorica e politica nei pseudepigrapha ciceroniani, paper delivered at the International Conference Le vie del falso. Storia, letteratura, arte , Università di Trento, Trento, May 26th-28th, 2022
- Silvas depopulatus est (Cic. Mil. 26): natura violata, politica e invettiva nella strategia retorica ciceroniana, paper delivered at the International Conference Cicerone e l ambiente , Università di Bologna, SIAC, Bologna, January 23rd-24th, 2023
- Rethinking Catiline. Cicero's (and Catiline's) Pseudepigrapha, paper delivered at the International Conference "Contesting Authenticity 1200-1700", London, Senate House, UCL, March 30th-31st, 2023
- Plinio il Giovane e la creazione di una moderna idea di luxuria, paper delivered at the International Conference "Luxuria: il peccato capitale dei Romani", Roma, April 1st, 2023

Teaching Chronicle

Courses taught:
Introduction to Roman History undergraduate course 1994-1995 (University Rome Lumsa)
Ancient Roman Biography undergraduate course 1995-1996 (University Rome Lumsa)
The Roman world in the Age of Augustus undergraduate course 1996-1997 (University Rome Lumsa)
Introduction to Latin Poetry undergraduate course 1997-1998 (University Rome Lumsa)
Latin Prosody and Stylistics undergraduate course 1998-1999 (University Rome Lumsa)
Latin Verse Authors undergraduate course 1999-2000 (University Rome Lumsa)
Latin Verse Authors undergraduate course 2000-2001 (University Rome Lumsa)
Survey of Latin literature undergraduate course 2005-2006 Fall Term (Sapienza University Rome)
Cicero s Caesarian Speeches undergraduate course 2005-2006 Spring Term (Sapienza University Rome)
Latin Epistles I graduate course 2006-2007 Fall Term (Sapienza University Rome)
Latin Epistles II graduate course 2006-2007 Spring Term (Sapienza University Rome)
Horace s Odes undergraduate course 2007-2008 Fall Term (Sapienza University Rome)
Ovid s Fasti undergraduate course 2007-2008 Spring Term (Sapienza University Rome)
Literature and Power in the Roman World I graduate course 2008-2009 Fall Term (Sapienza University Rome)
Literature and Power in the Roman World II graduate course 2008-2009 Spring Term (Sapienza University Rome)
Apuleius Golden Ass undergraduate course 2009-2010 Fall Term (Sapienza University Rome)
Lucan s Civil War graduate course 2009-2010 Spring Term (Sapienza University Rome)
Masterpieces of Roman Literature in Translation, undergraduate course, Summer Term 2010 (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Lucretius On the Nature of Things, graduate course 2011-2012, Spring Term (Sapienza University Rome)
Cicero s Catilinarians, undergraduate course 2012-2013, Fall Term (Sapienza University Rome)
The Poetics of Exile in Latin Literature, graduate course 2012-2013 Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Latin Prose, undergraduate course 2013-2014, Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Catullus poetry, graduate course 2013-2014, Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Cicero s Philosophy, undergraduate course 2014-2015, Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Petronius Satyrica, graduate course 2014-2015, Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Cicero s Philippics, undergraduate course 2015-2016 Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Ovid s Heroides, graduate course 2015-2016 Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Roman Oratory from late Republic to early imperial age, undergraduate course 2016-2017 Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Seneca s Tragedies, graduate course 2016-2017 Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Horace s Poems, undergraduate course 2017-2018 Fall Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Cicero s pro Milone and pro Caelio, undergraduate course 2017-2018 Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Ovid s Ars Amatoria, graduate course 2017-2018 Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Lucretius De rerum natura, undergraduate course 2018-2019 Fall Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Sallust s Historiography, undergraduate course 2018-2019 Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Propertius Elegies, graduate course 2018-2019 Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Apuleius Metamorphoses, undergraduate course 2019-2020 Fall Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Roman Civilization, undergraduate course 2019-2020 Fall Term (USAC Viterbo)
Lucan s Bellum Civile, undergraduate course 2019-2020 Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Teaching Latin in the Classroom, graduate course 2019-2020 Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Virgil s Georgics, undergraduate course 2021-22 Fall Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Pseudepigrapha in Latin literature, SSAS Course 2021-22 Spring Term (SSAS School of Advanced Studies Sapienza)
Cicero s epistles, undergraduate course 2021-22 Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Tibullus Elegies, graduate course 2021-22 Spring Term (Sapienza University of Rome)
Roman Epic, undergraduate course 2022-23 Fall Term (Sapienza University of Rome)

Distinctions and Membership

- Prize-winner of the Latinarum Litterarum Linguaeque Certamen Capitolinum II (sponsored by the Roman Studies Institute) with the book L inno nella letteratura poetica latina
- Member of the SIAC (Societé Internationale des Amis de Cicéron)
- Member of the Network for Oratory and Politics
- Member of the Scientific Board of the Centre of Ciceronian Studies of Arpino
- Member of the Editorial/Scientific Board of the journal Rationes Rerum
- Member of the Editorial/Scientific Board of the Book Series Il carro di Medea