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Francesco Citti

Full Professor

Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies

Academic discipline: L-FIL-LET/04 Latin Language and Literature

Dean of Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna

Research

Principal research lines:
1) Latin Literature and Language, and in particular Horace, Seneca and Seneca the Elder;
2) Nachleben of latin authors and themes (from ME and Renaissance to nowadays). In preparation: 3rd edition of Paolo Bufalini's Horatian translations; Giovanni Pascoli's Traduzioni e Riduzioni critical edition (vol. XI of Pascoli's Edizione Nazionale).
3) relationships between ancient scientific tradition (particularly Lucretius and Seneca) and modern science