Gianpiero Rosati

After graduating at the University of Florence, he gained a PhD from the Scuola Normale; he then became a researcher at the Scuola Normale (from 1980) and at the University of Florence (from 1984-87). He went on to become an associate professor at the University of Pavia (1987-93) and then at the Scuola Normale (1993-94); from 1994 to 2012 he taught as a full professor of Latin literature at the University of Udine (where, from 2010 to 2012, he was also the director of the Scuola Superiore). From the start of 2013 to 2021, he taught Latin literature at the Scuola Normale, where he is now a professor emeritus.

His main areas of research are the poetry of the era of the Roman Emperor Augustus (in particular Ovid and the elegy), Latin narrative prose (Petronius, Apuleius), and the literature of the first century of the Roman Empire: in recent years he has studied above all the poetry of the Flavian era (Statius, Martial), combining his interest in the literary forms with that of their relationships with visual culture in the artistic field and in material culture. His most important publications include the following: Narciso e Pigmalione. Illusione e spettacolo nelle Metamorfosi di Ovidio (Narcissus and Pygmalion. Illusion and spectacle in Ovid's Metamorphoses) (Florence 1983; Pisa 20162; English translation Oxford 2021); the edition with commentary of Ovid's Medicamina (Venice 1985); that of epistles 18 and 19 of the Heroides (Florence 1996), that of books 4-5-6 of the Metamorphoses (Milan 2007-09; English translation Cambridge 2024), and lastly, the essay Ovidio e il teatro del piacere. Il corpo, lo sguardo, il desiderio (Rome 2022). In addition, for the BUR he translated Ovid's Heroides (Milan 1989) and then Statius' Achilleide (1994); for the edition of Pliny’s Storia Naturale (Natural History) in the Millenni Einaudi, he translated and annotated books 33 and 37 (Turin 1988). He is currently working on an edition with commentary (together with A. Pittà) of Statius' Silvae for the Fondazione Valla.

He is the director of the “Giornale italiano di Filologia” and is on the scientific committee of the journals "Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici", “Maia”, "Dictynna. Revue de poétique latine" and “Annali della Scuola Normale”. He has directed research groups for numerous PRIN projects. He has held conferences and courses of lectures in numerous universities both in Italy and abroad and has collaborated in the creation and in the initiatives of the Réseau international de recherche sur la poésie augustéenne, which includes several important European universities (Cambridge, Dublin Trinity College, Durham, Florence, Geneva, Heidelberg Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3, London King’s College, Oxford, Pisa SNS, Udine). He is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and of the Academia Europaea.