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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Domenico Graziano (SP1 – Coordination Project) recently completed a period of training and scientific collaboration in Florence at SISMEL (International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin) and the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (8–11 June), as part of the 11th International Training Course on Manuscript Studies. During his stay, under the supervision of Prof. Gabriella Pomaro (SISMEL),…
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Domenico Graziano (SP1 – Coordination Project) and Orsola Lorena Purcaro (SP5 – Neo-Latin Translations – Bilingual Books for Early Modern Readers) participated in the international conference Transfer of Knowledge in Auxiliary Texts to Greek and Latin Literature (14th–16th c.): The Making of the Late Medieval and Renaissance Canon, organized by Giandamiano Bovi and Vincenzo Damiani (Catania, 4–5 June…
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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…
