Principal Investigator in Sub-Project 1
Contact
University of Innsbruck
Department for Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies
room 06E030 (6th floor)
Innrain 52a (Ágnes-Heller-Haus)
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
email: domenico.graziano@uibk.ac.at
Biography
CV
02/1993: Born in Caserta, Italy
07/2012: High School Diploma (Maturità classica) at Liceo Classico Statale Domenico Cirillo, Aversa (with honors)
02/2016: BA in Classics at the University of Naples Federico II; thesis on the invectivae of the humanist Domizio Calderini (summa cum laude)
02/2021: MA in Philology, Literature and History of the Ancient World at the University of Naples Federico II; thesis on the extracts of Plutarch’s Moralia in the anthology of Joannes Stobaeus (summa cum laude)
10/2025: PhD in Philology and Literary and Cultural Studies under joint supervision (cotutelle) between the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Innsbruck; thesis on the paratexts of printed editions of Greek and Latin scientific-philosophical texts between the 15th and 16th centuries (summa cum laude)
01/2026-present: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Innsbruck within the SFB Neo-Latin in the Modern World
Conference Organisation
- Co-organization of the conference (with Abbamonte, Giancarlo; Schaffenrath, Florian; Spielhofer, Lukas): “Per limina. Printed Paratexts and the Intellectual Networks of Humanism”, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies – University of Innsbruck, December 6-7, 2024.
Research Interests
- Classical reception studies
- Paratextual dynamics in the early modern period
- Book history and reading practices
- New Ancient Greek literature
- History of scientific thought
- Digital Humanities
Publications
- Graziano, Domenico & Spielhofer, Lukas (eds.). “Humanist Paratexts. Print and Culture in the Early Modern World” (Leuven: Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia) [in preparation].
- Graziano, Domenico (2025). “Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 34.30”, MADOC – Manuscripta Doctrinalia (sec. XIII-XV), https://www.mirabileweb.it/manuscript/firenze-biblioteca-medicea-laurenziana-plut-34-30-manuscript/272215.
- Graziano, Domenico (2025). “On the Hem of Daniel Heinsius’ Peplus Graecorum epigrammatum: Poetry, Philosophy, and Paratexts in New Ancient Greek”, Hermes – Platform for early modern Hellenism (blog), https://doi.org/10.17613/76npd-xfn77.
- Graziano, Domenico (2023). Review of Montepaone, Olivia (2021). “Auctorem producere. L’Apocolocyntosis nelle edizioni a stampa dall’Umanesimo sino alla rifondazione scientifica di inizio Ottocento (1513-1808)” (Milano: Ledizioni), Bollettino di Studi Latini LIII.1, pp. 336-340.
- Graziano, Domenico (2018). “Assimilation and Disjunction in Francesco Filelfo’s Satire 2.5”, in: Abbamonte, Giancarlo & Kallendorf, Craig (eds.), Classics Transformed (Pisa: Edizioni ETS), pp. 71-80.
Talks
- “Raphael Francus’ Paraphrasis in Lucretium and the debate de genere dicendi philosophorum”, XIX International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) 2025, Aix-en-Provence, July 15-20, 2025.
- “Si haec sint vera…accede ad opus. Notes on a Paratextual Cento Lucretianus of the 15th century”, AKMe Conference, Innsbruck, June 27-28, 2025.
- “Mathematics for a Sublime Reader: Simon Grynaeus’ (1493 – 1541) Prefaces to Ancient Greek Scientific Texts”, Emotional Persuasion in Early Modern Science: Vernacular and Neo-Latin Perspectives, The Warburg Institute, London, May 15-16, 2025.
- “Paratesti in rete: verso un’edizione digitale dei paratesti a stampa dell’Età moderna”, Tendenze Recenti nelle edizioni scientifiche digitali di fonti medievali e di testi greco-latini antichi, Pisa, February 8-9, 2024.
Domenico Graziano’s Contributions and Activities
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On 14 April 2026, the SRA team had the pleasure of meeting Prof. Paolo Rondinelli (Università Telematica Pegaso), invited to Innsbruck by Prof. Christine Franziska Konecny to give a lecture on his recent critical edition of Francesco Serdonati’s Proverbi Italiani. We are very pleased with the stimulating exchange of ideas and perspectives we had with…
