Notes on Contributors
Giancarlo Abbamonte teaches Classical Philology at the Federico II University of Naples. His research focuses on the exegetical tradition of Aristotle’s logical texts and on the poetry of Virgil and Statius. In particular, he has studied the Humanist genres of commentary (with reference to Statius’ Silvae) and lexicography. He took part in the critical edition of Niccolò Perotti’s Cornu copiae (ETS, 2002) and worked on the Humanist Iacopo d’Angelo from Scarperia (ca. 1370–1411), publishing together with Fabio Stok the critical edition of Iacopo d’Angelo’s Latin versions of two works by Plutarch (De Alexandri fortuna aut virtute and De fortuna Romanorum) (ETS, 2017). At moment, he is studying the paratexts of the editions of classics printed in the Early Age (dedication, index, commentary, notes etc.) and the method used by the humanist Aulus Ianus Parrhasius (1470–1521) for organizing and managing information on the classical world.
Federica Bessone is Professor of Latin at the University of Turin, having studied Classics at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Pisa. She is the author of P. Ovidii Nasonis Heroidum epistula XII. Medea Iasoni (Le Monnier, 1997) and La Tebaide di Stazio. Epica e potere (Fabrizio Serra, 2011), co-editor of The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age: Canons, Transformations, Reception (De Gruyter, 2017) and Lettori latini e italiani di Ovidio (Fabrizio Serra, 2019), and editor of Dalla Tebaide alla Commedia (e oltre). Nuovi studi su Stazio e la sua ricezione (RCCM 64.1, 2022). She is a member of the editorial board of Aevum, Eugesta, Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici, Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale, and the Oxford Commentaries on Flavian Poetry.
Kathleen M. Coleman is the James Loeb Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. She specializes in Latin literature under the Flavian emperors and Trajan; Roman social history, especially spectacle and punishment; Roman material culture, especially mosaics; and the reception of classical antiquity by Douglas Livingstone, a South African poet. She is the author of commentaries on Statius, Silvae IV (Oxford University Press, 1988) and Martial, Liber Spectaculorum (Oxford University Press, 2006); editor of Le jardin dans l’Antiquité (Fondation Hardt, 2014), Images for Classicists (Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 2015), and Albert’s Anthology (Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 2017); and co-editor of F.R.D. Goodyear: Papers on Latin Literature (Duckworth, 1992) and L’Organisation des spectacles dans le monde romain (Fondation Hardt, 2012). Her articles on the Silvae include studies of Statius’ use of mythological spokespersons, the stylistic function of parentheses, and the surprising absence of epigraphic quotation in a genre so intimately concerned with Roman social life and strategies of commemoration.
Bruce Gibson is Professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool. His publications include a text, commentary, and translation of Statius, Silvae 5 (Oxford University Press, 2006); Polybius and His World: Essays in Memory of F.W. Walbank (Oxford University Press, 2013; co-edited with Thomas Harrison); and Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity (Arethusa 46.2, 2013; co-edited with Roger Rees); as well as articles and chapters on a wide range of Latin texts in prose and verse. He is currently writing a commentary on Pliny’s Panegyricus.
Ana Lóio is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Lisbon. Her research centers on Augustan and post-Augustan poetry, especially the work of Statius and Martial, with a particular focus on these authors’ engagement with the Greek poetic tradition and on Statius’ reading of Latin elegy in the Silvae. Her current projects include a study of the evidence for Silvae written by Lucan, as well as studies of various aspects of Statius’ Silvae, including the genre of the text and the relationship between Statius’ catalogues of stones and the Lithika of Posidippus.
Carole Newlands is Professor of Classics and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Statius’ Silvae and the Poetics of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2002); Statius, Silvae Book 2: A Commentary (Cambridge University Press, 2011); and Statius, Poet between Rome and Naples (Bristol Classical Press, 2012). She has also published on Ovid and on medieval poetry and is currently working in reception studies.
Antonino Pittà studied Classics at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and is a Researcher (tenure track) in Latin Literature at the Università di Milano. His main fields of research are Roman antiquarianism, Augustan culture, and Flavian poetry. He is the author of a commentary on the fragments of Varro’s De uita populi Romani (Pisa University Press, 2015) and of a commentary on Statius’ Silvae I (I Carmi di Domiziano, vol. I [Le Monnier, 2021]). He has also produced studies of the Virgilian manuscript tradition, interpolations in Ovid, and Lucan’s narrative technique. Other current projects include an Italian edition of Solinus’ Collectanea, entries in the forthcoming Tacitus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell), and an online edition of the fragments of the Roman republican antiquarians.
Luke Roman is Professor of Classics at Memorial University. His areas of research include Latin literature, Renaissance Humanism, representations of the city of Rome, ideas of place and space, the materiality of books and writing, the classical tradition, and the global discipline of Classics. His first book, Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome (Oxford University Press, 2014), examines the rhetoric of autonomy in Roman first-person poetry from the late republic to the early empire. He has also published two volumes in the I Tatti Renaissance Library series (Harvard University Press): Giovanni Gioviano Pontano: On Married Love; Eridanus (2014) and Giovanni Gioviano Pontano: Eclogues; Garden of the Hesperides (2022).
Gianpiero Rosati is Emeritus Professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, where he has been Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. His research focuses on Augustan poetry, especially Ovid, with numerous publications including essays, editions, and commentaries (his most recent work is Ovidio e il teatro del piacere. Il corpo, lo sguardo, il desiderio, Rome 2022); literature of the Neronian and Flavian ages (including Seneca, Statius, and Martial); and Latin narrative (Petronius and Apuleius). Rosati’s more recent research deals with the poetry of Statius, particularly the poetics of occasional lyric poems in the Silvae. He is currently working (with A. Pittà) on a commentary on Statius’ Silvae in the Fondazione Valla series.