Researcher 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: antonia.foggia@uibk.ac.at
Biography
- 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
Research Interests
- Classical reception studies
- Book history and reading practices
- Italian humanism
- Virgilian commentaries
- Ciceronianism
- Digital Humanities
Talks
- “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)
Antonia Foggia’s Contributions and Activities
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At the end of June, three of our members had the opportunity to present results of their ongoing research at the latest “Antike Kulturen des Mittelmeerraumes (AKMe)” conference in Salzburg. As a biannual event with changing hosts between the universities of Graz, Innsbruck and Salzburg, it offers PhD candidates an interdisciplinary platform to address methodological…
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Antonia Foggia and Ada Migliazza, predoc researchers in SP 1 (Coordination Project), took part in the Summer School INtegrating TRAditional and Digital Approaches in Manuscript Studies (INTRADAMS), held at the University of Milan from 8th to 19th June 2026, in collaboration with the Department of History and Cultures of the University of Bologna and the University…
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On the occasion of the doctoral conference Leggere, scrivere, studiare. L’attività intellettuale e le sue tracce, organized by the Department of Humanities of Università Roma Tre, Antonia Foggia presented a paper entitled Nel laboratorio di un magister quattrocentesco: tracce dell’attività didattica in un commento anonimo quattrocentesco a Ovidio e Virgilio (Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale, V.D.52). The…
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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…
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Our researcher Antonia Foggia (sub-project 1) partecipated in the Society for Neo-Latin Studies Postgraduate and ECR Scholars Event (online, 20th March 2026), a scholarly forum dedicated to the presentation and discussion of ongoing research in Neo-Latin studies by postgraduate and early career researchers, and to the promotion of academic exchange and critical feedback. In her…
