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: antonia.foggia@uibk.ac.at

• 08/1998 Born in Pozzuoli, Italy
• 07/2017 High school diploma (Maturità classica) at Liceo Classico – Istituto Superiore Statale Pitagora, Pozzuoli, Italy
• 07/2022 BA in Classics at the University of Naples Federico II (summa cum laude)
• 10/2025 MA in Philology, Literature and Civilization of the Ancient World at the University of Naples Federico II (summa cum laude); thesis on the anonymous commentary on Ovid’s Ars amandi and Virgil’s Eclogues preserved in the MS V.D.52 (National Library “Vittorio Emanuele III”, Naples)
• 01/2026 – present: Predoc Project Collaborator at the University of Innsbruck within the SFB Neo-Latin in the Modern World
• 03/2026: PhD student in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Florian Schaffenrath

• Classical reception studies
• Book history and reading practices
• Italian humanism
• Virgilian commentaries
• Ciceronianism
• Digital Humanities

• “The Library of the Humanist Aulus Ianus Parrhasius and the Anonymous Commentary on Virgil’s Eclogues of the MS Naples, National Library, V.D.52”, International Workshop “Naples and Campania as a Melting Pot of Cultures”, Naples, 28.09.2022.
• “Recollectae inedite sull’Ars amandi di Ovidio e sulle Bucoliche di Virgilio in un manoscritto appartenuto a Parrasio”, Cycle of Seminars “Parrhasiana Online”, 03.04.2025 (online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ogu8S8yRo4)