Alessandro Schiesaro

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Alessandro Schiesaro (* 1963 in Savona ) is an Italian classical philologist and professor of classics as well as head of the School of Arts, Languages ​​and Cultures at the University of Manchester .

Life

After studying at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa , Berkeley and Oxford , Schiesaro taught in the United States from 1989 to 1996, first as Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , then as Full Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Classics at Princeton University . In 1995 he was appointed to the Chair of Latin Literature in the Department of Classics at King's College London . Since 2003 he has held the chair of Latin literature at the University of Rome-Sapienza and was the founder of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati. He now works at the University of Manchester.

Schiesaro is one of Gian Biagio Conte's students and is a member of the scientific advisory board of the journals Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica and Dictynna. Revue de poétique latine . Since 2000 he has also been a freelancer for the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore .

Schiesaro also advises politicians on questions of science policy, initially those of the Partito Democratico such as Luciano Modica , but also the Minister Mariastella Gelmini, who belongs to the Popolo della Libertà , in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth cabinet .

In 2016 Schiesaro was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .

Research priorities

Schiesaro works mainly on classical Latin poetry ( Lucretius , Virgil , Ovid , the tragedies of Seneca ) and the Latin novel by Apuleius , but also on Giacomo Leopardi , for example . His work is characterized by both an interest in literary theory (especially in the theory of intertextuality ) and a cultural studies perspective.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Simulacrum et imago. Gli argomenti analogici nel de rerum natura. Pisa 1990. - Review of CDN Costa, The Classical Review, New Series, 41, 1991, 481-482.
  • The passions in play: Thyestes and the dynamics of Senecan drama . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England 2003, ISBN 0-521-81801-X . - Review by George WM Harrison, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 07/37/2004 .

Editorships

Articles and posts

  • L'infinito in versi , introduction to: Lucrezio, La natura delle cose. Torino 2003.
  • La nostalgia dell'impossibile , introduction to: Virgilio, Eneide. Roma 2003.
  • Ovid and the professional discourses of scholarship, religion, rhetoric. In: Philip R. Hardie (Ed.): The Cambridge companion to Ovid . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 2002, ISBN 0-521-77528-0 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed September 15, 2010]).
  • Virgil in Bloomsbury , in: Proceedings of the Virgil Society 24, 2001, 31-47.
  • Dissimulazioni giambiche nell'Ibis , in: Giornate Filologiche F. Della Corte. Genova 2001, 125-136.
  • Estetica della tirannia , in: Seneca e il suo tempo. Roma 2000, 135-159.
  • Bere tranquilli: Seneca, Tieste 452 (e Fedra 208) , in: RFIC 127, 1999, 197-205.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pubblicato da Alessandro Schiesaro: Schiesaros Blog, January 25, 2007 . Alessandroschiesaro.blogspot.com. February 26, 2004. Retrieved September 15, 2010.
  2. ^ Corriere della Sera, October 23, 2008 and Europe, October 16, 2008 . Scribd.com. Retrieved September 15, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Schiesaro, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Savona