Research positions
01/02/2024 – 31/01/2026: Postdoctoral Fellow, Classical Philology and Italian Studies (FICLIT), University of Bologna, Italy. Research project: “Per imagines, per scripta: interactions between text and images in Livy and Latin didactic poetry”; Supervisor: Prof. Daniele Pellacani. Research framework: PRIN 2022 PNRR “PER IMAGINES, PER SCRIPTA” (project code: MUR P2022C4A7N).
01/02/2023 – 31/01/2024 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DISSGeA), University of Padua, Italy. Research project: “Representation of Landscape in Roman Oratory from Cicero to the Panegyrici Latini”; Supervisor: Prof. Antonella Duso. Research framework: PRIN 2017 ‘Nature and Landscape of Italy in Roman Culture from Augustus to Trajan’ (Prot. 2017NWWA58).
Education
1/10/2018–20/05/2022 Ph.D. in Linguistic, Philological and Literary Sciences, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL), University of Padua, Italy. Thesis: “A Commentary on Cicero’s Post reditum in senatu”. Coordinator: Prof. Rocco Coronato; Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Gianluigi Baldo; Final grade: Excellent cum laude.
26/10/2015–07/12/2017 M.A. in Classical Languages and Literatures and Ancient History, Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DISSGeA), University of Padua, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Gianluigi Baldo; Thesis: “The Metaphors of Rhetoric in Cicero (De oratore, Brutus, Orator)”; Final mark: 110/110 cum laude.
27/09/2016–26/02/2017 Erasmus + Studies Programme – Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein, Universität Wien, Austria.
01/10/2012–14/10/2015 B.A. in Classics and Italian Literature, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL), University of Padua, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Gianluigi Baldo; Thesis: “Rhetoric and Narration in Cicero’s De Suppliciis. Commentary on Verr. II 5, 1-41”; Final mark: 110/110 cum laude.
23/09/2013–13/06/2014 Erasmus for Studies Programme, Department of Classics, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom.
2008-2012: High school Diploma di Liceo classico, Liceo Classico Statale A. Canova, Treviso, Italia. Final vote: 100/100.
Teaching activities
University
a.a. 2024/2025; 2023/2024; 2022/2023: Adjunct Professor, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL), University of Padua, Italy. 21 total teaching hours within the course ‘Latin for beginners’ (teacher in charge: Prof. Francesco Lubian), s.s.d. L-FIL-LET/04, for the Bachelor’s Degree ‘Italian Medieval and Renaissance Studies’.
Member of the Final Examination Board for the “classe di concorso A011” within the ‘Percorsi universitari di formazione iniziale dei docenti delle scuole secondarie di primo e secondo grado a.a. 2023/2024" at the University of Padua. Date: 30/11/2024.
01/03/2024–31/12/2024: Adjunct Professor, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL), University of Padua, Italy. 12 total teaching hours (2 CFU) within the course ‘Didattica del latino’ (teacher in charge: Prof. Francesco Lubian), s.s.d. L-FIL-LET/04, as part of the programme ‘Percorsi universitari e accademici di formazione iniziale dei docenti delle scuole secondarie di primo e secondo grado – a.a. 2023-2034’. Lecturer in charge of Module C: ‘Insegnare latino oggi: problemi e prospettive’.
09/11/2023–25/02/2024: Adjunct professor for a total of 18 hours of supplementary teaching for a Latin Literature workshop, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL), University of Padua, Italy. Teacher in charge: Prof. Valentina Gallo.
High school
05/09/2022–31/01/2023: high school teacher (A011: literature and Latin) at the Liceo Classico M. Flaminio, Vittorio Veneto. [On unpaid leave for study reasons from 01/02/2023 to 30/06/2023 to take the Postdoc fellowship at the Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DISSGeA), University of Padua, Italy. Research project: “Representation of Landscape in Roman Oratory from Cicero to the Panegyrici Latini”; Supervisor: Prof. Antonella Duso].
13/01/2022–30/06/2022: high school teacher (A013: literature, Latin and Greek) at the Liceo Classico A. Canova. [On unpaid special leave for doctoral studies from 22/11/2021 to 31/12/2021 and on leave for family, work, personal and study reasons from 01/01/2022 to 12/01/2022].
Publications
Articles in peer-reviewed journals and collected volumes
- Fulmina illa Ciceronis. Atmospheric Phenomena in the Treatment of the genus grande, «Wiener Studien» 138, 2025, pp. 1-16.
- Gerlach’s Cicero versus Mommsen’s Cicero in 19th century Basel, in C.S. Laemmle (ed.), Cicero in Basel. Locating Classical Reception in a Humanist City, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter 2024, pp. 303-320.
- Rigenerazione urbana e naturale, calamità e inquinamento nelle orazioni post reditum di Cicerone, «Ciceroniana On Line» VII, 2, 2023, pp. 351-375.
- Cicerone panegirista. Punti di (dis)somiglianza tra la «Post reditum in senatu» e la «Pro Marcello», «Griseldaonline» 20, 1, 2021, pp. 97-121.
- Ab exitio ad salutem: retorica e narrazione del ritorno nelle due orazioni Post reditum di Cicerone, «MD» 85, 2, 2020, pp. 79-116.
Editorships
- F. Benvenuti, A. Chiodetti, A. De Blasi, M. Zarantonello (eds.), «Dall’ombre al chiaro lume»: l’enigma e le sue declinazioni nella letteratura, Padova: Padova University Press (Incipit 1) 2024.
Other contributions
- Il Mare, vol. n. 39, in Latino. Cultura e lingua alle radici dell’Occidente, ed. by L. Beltramini for Corriere della Sera. Il volume è uscito il 20 giugno 2025. The volume was released on 20 June 2025.
- Invited review of GESINE MANUWALD, Cicero: post reditum Speeches. Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 448 pp., 110.00, ISBN 978-0-19-885075-5, published in «Exemplaria Classica» 26, 2022, pp. 317-322.
- Cronaca of the Conference Rappresentazioni dello spazio nella letteratura latina (Padova, Università degli Studi, 21-22 novembre 2019), published in «Bollettino di studi latini» 50, 1, 2020, pp. 305-308.
Talks and seminars
2025 – International workshop Cicero’s Pro Balbo, University of Potsdam, 3-4 July 2025. Title of my paper: “Reading the Pro Balbo as a post reditum Speech: Where Legal Court Meets Politics”.
2025 – Conference “Si uocem rerum natura repente mittat”: sensaciones y percepciones del mundo vegetal en la antigüedad, Universidad de Murcia, 12-15 March 2025, organized by Maria Dolores Hernandez Mayor. Title of my paper: “Natura e imperium negli Ab Urbe condita di Tito Livio”.
2024 – ISCH Conference: “Embodied Histories: Cultural History of, in, and through the Human Body”, 4-6 September, Potsdam, within the panel “The Exceptionality of the Body in Late Antiquity”, organized by Francesco Lubian and Nina Van de Sype. Title of my paper: “Describing the Emperor’s Body in the Panegyrici Latini”.
2024 – Seminar “Non largius usquam indulsit natura sibi. Lo spettacolo della natura in silv. 1, 3”, University of Padua, 26 June 2024.
2024 – International Conference “Overwhelmed. Spectacles and Visuality in Early and Late Imperial Poetry”, 18-19 April, University of Edinburgh. Title of my paper: “The Spectacularization of Nature and the Environment in Statius’ Silvae. Between Ekphrasis and Ecology”.
2024 – International Workshop “Green Cicero. New Perspectives on Cicero’s Ecological Thought”, University of Padua, 12 January 2024. Title of my paper: “The Nature of Style. The Sensory-Didactic Environment in Cicero’s Rhetorical Works”. Workshop organized as part of the Mini-SID 2023 “Forme e funzioni dell’ambiente, dello spazio e del paesaggio in Cicerone”.
2023 – International Conference “Cicero and the Environment”, Bologna, 23-24 January 2023. Title of my paper: “Rigenerazione naturale, calamità e inquinamento nelle orazioni Post reditum di Cicerone”.
2022 – Celtic Conference, within the Panel “Cicero narrator”, Lyon, 18-21 July 2022. Title of my paper: “Narrations and Narrative Techniques in Cicero’s Post reditum in senatu”.
2022 – Conference “La natura in parola. Visioni del paesaggio nella letteratura latina”, University of Padua, 16-17 February 2022. Title of my paper: “L’adventus di Cicerone: un modello di rappresentazione del paesaggio dall’oratoria al panegirico”.
2021 – Seminar “Laetitia e rigenerazione del paesaggio urbano. Il motivo dell’adventus tra Cicerone e i Panegyrici Latini”, University of Padua, 28 April 2021.
2019 – International Conference “Cicero in Basel. Reception Histories from a Humanist City”, Basel, 3-5 October 2019. Title of my paper: “Gerlach’s Cicero versus Mommsen’s Cicero in 19th century Basel”.
Organization of international conferences and scientific events
2025 – Member of the scientific committee for the exhibition “Per imagines. Classici latini e libri d’artista da Dürer a Picasso” organized by Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Classical Philology and Italian Studies (FICLIT), Centro Studi “La permanenza del classico”. In collaboration with the University Library of Bologna, the Civic Museums of Ancient Art – Medieval Museum of Bologna, the ADLab digitisation laboratory and DH.arc Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre of the FICLIT Department of the University of Bologna. Funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
2024 – Member of the organizing and scientific committee for the international workshop “Green Cicero. New Perspectives on Cicero’s Ecological Thought”, University of Padua, 12 January 2024.
2022 – Member of the organizing committee for the Conference “La natura in parola. Visioni del paesaggio nella letteratura latina”, University of Padua 16-17 February 2022.
2021- Member of the organizing committee for the Doctoral Conference “«Dall’ombre al chiaro lume»: l’enigma e le sue declinazioni nella letteratura”, University of Padua, 20-21 May 2021.
Participation in summer schools/advanced courses
03/06/2025 – 06/06/2025: Summer School Digital Humanities UNIMORE, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
15; 22/02/2025: Dal suono alla voce. Laboratorio di podcasting, Department of Historical, Geographical and Ancient Sciences, University of Padua.
31/07/2023 – 04/08/2023 5th TLL Summer School in Latin Lexicography, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften – Munich
Grants/Funding
20/07/2023 – 31/01/2024: Principal investigator for the Mini-SID project 2023 ‘Forme e funzioni dell’ambiente, dello spazio e del paesaggio in Cicerone’, founded by the Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DISSGeA), University of Padua. Total budget: € 5.350,00.
Participation in research projects
Participation in the Bologna research unit for the project PRIN 2022 PNRR “PER IMAGINES, PER SCRIPTA” (project code: MUR P2022C4A7N). Principal Investigator: Francesco Lubian, Università di Padova. Coordinator of the unit of Bologna: Daniele Pellacani.
Participation in the University of Padua research unit for the 2017 PRIN (Research Project of National Relevance) ‘Nature and Landscape of Italy in Roman Culture from Augustus to Trajan’ (Prot. 2017NWWA58). Principal Investigator: Andrea Cucchiarelli, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’; Coordinator of the Padua unit: Gianluigi Baldo, University of Padua.
