Lorenzo De Cinque holds a BA degree in Humanities, Arts and Archaeology from the University of Ferrara (2022) and a MA degree in Archaeology (2024) from Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2024 he is a PhD Candidate in Classics at Scuola Normale Superiore (XL doctoral cycle).
His PhD project consists in a socio-economic study of the funerary space in the suburbs of Rome between the late Republic and the proto-imperial age, starting from the indicatio pedaturae reported on the termini sepulcrorum. The aim is to identify trends underlying the funerary plots market in the suburbium of Rome, in relation to the main roads, and to reconstruct aspects of the Roman funerary economy using epigraphic, archaeological, topographical, literary, linguistic, prosopographical and legal sources.
His research interests include, in addition to Latin funerary epigraphy, the Roman history of the Late Republic, the topography of Rome, the imperial saltus of the ancient Po Delta and Public Archaeology. He has worked on the overall study of the epigraphs preserved at the Civic Lapidary of Ferrara in the perspective of publishing a catalogue raisonné of the inscriptions. He took part in the project Italian Power. The Civic Elites of Roman Italy, 338 BCE-305 CE at the University of Nantes and financed by the École française de Rome, within which he contributed to the study of the municipal elite of Brixia through the creation of prosopographical records for the project's database. He participated in the archaeological project Appia Antica 39 (2022-2024) of the University of Ferrara, where he worked within the communication team. Currently, he collaborates with the ERC Advanced Grant project INROME. The INscribed city: urban structures and interaction in imperial ROME (main investigator: Barbara E. Borg).