Rolando Ferri
Rolando Ferri (born January 6, 1968 ) is an Italian classical philologist and full professor of Latin literature at the University of Pisa .
Life
After studying in Pisa as a student of Gian Biagio Conte , in Princeton and in London (where he was Momigliano Student in the Arts at University College from 1993 to 1996 and worked as a lecturer for Italian), Ferri was initially a professor associato from 1998 from the University of Pavia , moved to Pisa in 2001 with the same rank , where he has been Professor Ordinario for Latin Literature since 2006 .
Ferri is a member of the scientific advisory board of the journal Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici as well as the editorial board of the Studi Classici e Orientali and is senior editor for the area of reception and the history of philology of the electronic review organ for the classical studies Bryn Mawr Classical Review .
Focus of work
Ferri mainly works on classical Latin literature (Roman comedy, Roman tragedy, fabula praetexta: Pseudo-Seneca , Octavia , Roman philosophy: Lucretius ), on the linguistic side also on the Latin colloquial language, the Hermeneumata and Greco-Latin glossaries .
Publications (selection)
- The Latin of Roman Lexicography (Ricerche sulle lingue di frammentaria attestazione 7), (Pisa, Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2011), ISBN 978-88-6227-376-3
- Sebastiano Timpanaro , in: Richard F. Thomas , Jan Ziolkowski (eds.): The Virgil Encyclopedia. 3 vols. Wiley, Chichester 2013.
- (Ed., With Mira J. Seo and Katharina Volk ): Callida Musa. Studi in onore di Elaine Fantham (Pisa, 2008)
- (Ed., With Franco Bellandi): Aspetti della scuola nel mondo romano (Amsterdam, 2008)
- Il latino dei Colloquia scholica , in: R. Ferri and F. Bellandi, Aspetti della scuola nel mondo romano (Amsterdam, 2008), 111–177
- Linguistic politeness in Latin comedy. Some preliminary thoughts (1) , in: Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 61 (2008) 15–28
- Octavia. A play attributed to Seneca (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 41), (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2003, New paperback edition with corrections, 2009), ISBN 0-521-82326-9
- I dispiaceri di un Epicureo (Biblioteca di Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici), (Pisa, Giardini 1993), ISBN 88-427-0299-4
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ferri, Rolando |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian classical philologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1968 |