SFB Neo-Latin in the Modern World

Federica Rossetti, PhD

Principal Investigator of Sub-Project 5

Contact

University of Innsbruck
Department for Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies

Room: 06K040

Innrain 52a

A-6020 Innsbruck

Austria

Tel.: +43/512/507-40721

E-Mail: Federica.Rossetti@uibk.ac.at

Education and research experience
  • 2011: BA Laurea Triennale in Lettere Classiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
  • 2011-2012: Erasmus Scholarship at Université de Strasbourg
  • 2013: MA Laurea Magistrale in Filologia, Letterature e Civiltà del Mondo Antico, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
  • 2017: Dottorato in Filologia, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, cotutelle mit Doctorat Sciences de l’Antiquité – Philologie Classique, Université de Strasbourg
  • October 2017 – March 2018: Research Fellow at the Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies
  • April 2018 – March 2019: Research Grant La fortune de Sénèque et du stoïcisme romain du Moyen-Âge au XVIIIe s., Société Internationale des Amis de Cicéron (SIAC)
  • March – August 2019: Postdoc fellowship at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
  • March – July 2020: Chercheuse Postdoc, Université de Strasbourg (project of edition of the second volume of Beatus Rhenanus’s letters)
  • March 2022 – January 2023: Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, FWF-Projekt “Basinio da Parma, Hesperis”
  • February 2023 – Februay 2024: Postdoc researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies
  • From March 2024 Postdoc researcher at the University of Innsbruck
  • From January 2026 PI of the Sub-project £Neo-Latin Translations: Bilingual Editions for Early Modern Readers”, SFB Neo-Latin in the Modern World.
Research Interests
  • Editions and commentaries of Classics in the Early Modern Period
  • Rhine Humanism
  • Renaissance Satire
  • Humanistic Epics
  • Reception Studies
Publications
  • Books
    • Il commento a Persio dell’umanista Giovanni Britannico. Dalla tipografia bresciana del Quattrocento all’editoria europea del Cinquecento, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Studia Humanitatis Rhenana, 5), ISBN: 978-2-503-58146-0
  • Edited books
    • A.G. Chisena, F. Rossetti, S. Smets, L’amore, le armi, le stelle. Basinio da Parma and the Humanists at Sigismondo Malatesta’s Court, Gent, Lysa Publishers, 2025, ISBN: 978-9-464-75316-5
    • M.C. Alvino, M. Di Franco, F. Rossetti, G. Rubulotta, Le voyage d’Europe au fil des siècles. Histoire et réception d’un mythe antique, Turnhout, Brepols (Récherches sur les Rhétoriques Religieuses, 34), 2021, ISBN: 978-2-503-59153-7
  • Articles and essays
    • The Argonautic Myth in Italian Humanism: Basinio da Parma’s Argonautica, in A. Daly, L. Doyle, J. Lam (eds.), Argo Crossing. Studies in Apollonius Rhodius’ “Argonautica” and Its Reception, 417-440, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2026, forthcoming.
    • History and Mythography in an Anonymous Descriptio Siciliae, in T. Daniels, M. Krumm (eds.), History Writing in Late Medieval and Renaissance Southern Italy. Transmissions, Uses, Narratives, Turnhout, Brepols, Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 2026, forthcoming.
    • L’Apotheosis Erasmi, entre modèles classiques et nouveaux genres littéraires, in J. Hirstein, M. Jeannot-Tirole (eds.), Ioannes Sapidus (1490-1561) de Sélestat : Vie et œuvre du poète néo-latin, Turnhout, Brepols, Studia Humanitatis Rhenana, forthcoming.
    • Philosophy and Pedagogy in Magnus Hundt’s Editions of Classics, in K. Engel, M. Hoenen (eds.), Magnus Hundt zwischen Scholastik und Humanismus. Wissenschaftsreflexion und Menschenbild im Übergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2026, forthcoming.
    • The Apocryphal Correspondence between Saint Paul and Seneca in Renaissance Printed Editions (15th–16th Century), in M. Colombo, U. Zahnd (eds.), The Many Faces of Paul: Pauline Exegesis in Pre-modern Times, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2026, forthcoming.
    • Textual Criticism in the 16th-Century Printed Editions of Seneca. Paratextual Mechanisms for the Sake of Philology, in D. Graziano, L. Spielhofer (eds.), Humanist Paratexts. Print and Culture in the Early Modern World, Leuven, Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia, forthcoming.
    • Porcelio alla corte dei Malatesta. La disputa sulla conoscenza del greco, tra satira e invettiva, in «Rinascimento Meridionale» X (2025), forthcoming.
    • L’exploration des rerum causae dans la poésie de Basinio da Parma, in C. Gaullier-Bougassas (ed.), La réception des mythes grecs liés à la nature et au vivant. Textes et images (XIVe-XVIe siècles), Brepols, Recherches sur les Réceptions de l’Antiquité, forthcoming.
    • Le Regulae ad institutionem filiorum suorum di Giovanni Britannico. Maestri e polemiche nell’Umanesimo Bresciano, in L. Rivali (ed.), Scrivere, stampare, collezionare libri. Atti del convegno Libri e lettori a Brescia, Università Cattolica di Brescia, 15 novembre 2019, Udine, Forum, 2026, pp. 39-58.
    • Angela Curione, Lettres, in D. Amherdt, C. Schlip, et K. Bovier (eds), Humanistica Helvetica: Prose et poésie latines des humanistes suisses du XVIe siècle 195 (2024–2028), https://humanistica-helvetica.unifr.ch/fr/works/209
    • L’éducation des jeunes et l’enseignement du latin dans l’oeuvre de Celio Secondo Curione, «Camenae» 34 – octobre 2025,en ligne.
    • Enseignement du Latin et enseignement moral à la Renaissance. Les éditions des anthologies et des oeuvres apocryphes de Sénèque aux XVe et XVIe siècles, in L. Claire, M. Furno et A.-H. Klinger-Dollé, À l’école des Humanistes. Pédagogies de La Renaissance, entre Manuscrit et imprimé, Genève, Droz, 169-194.
    • Cicerone nella Basilea della Riforma. I commenti e le edizioni di Celio Secondo Curione, in: C. Scheidegger Laemmle(ed.), Cicero in Basel. Locating Classical Reception in a Humanist City, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2024, 131-150.
    • I commenti a stampa dei classici nell’età moderna, «Rinascimento Meridionale» 8 (2017-2023), 83-103.
    • Gli Argonautica di Basinio da Parma tra intertestualità e mitopoiesi, in «Medioevo e Rinascimento», 36/n.s. 33 (2022), pp. 171-210.
    • Johann Froben, Beato Renano e un vetustus codex: interventi testuali sull’Apocolocyntosis di Seneca nella Basilea del Cinquecento, in «Revue d’Histoire des Textes», n.s. vol. 16 (2021), pp. 329-362.
    • I paratesti delle edizioni di Persio tra XV e XVI secolo. Dall’Umanesimo italiano al Rinascimento europeo, in I paratesti nelle edizioni a stampa dei classici greci e latini (XV-XVIII sec.), a c. di G. Abbamonte – M. Laureys – L. Miletti, Roma, ETS, 2020, pp. 209-227.
    • Fonti scientifiche in contesti scolastici. La metafora medica nei commenti a Persio del Secondo Quattrocento, in Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Albasitensis, eds. F. Schaffenrath and M.T. Santamaría Hernández, Leiden, Brill, 2019, pp. 472-482.
    • Giovanni Britannico maestro, in «Italia Medioevale e Umanistica», LX (2019), pp. 231-255.
    • Satyra e comoedia nella teoria umanistica dei generi letterari: I Prolegomena Tzetzae nel De satyra di Giovanni Britannico, «Aevum», 3 (2019), pp. 603-627.
    • Beatus Rhenanus lecteur de Perse. Annotations manuscrites sur les Satires dans l’exemplaire K 934b de la Bibliothèque Humaniste de Sélestat, « Annuaire de la Société des Amis de la Bibliothèque humaniste de Sélestat », 68 (2018), pp. 29-40.
    • Il commento di Domizio Calderini all’Appendix Vergiliana, in «Humanistica. An International Journal of Early Renaissance Studies», VIII, 1 (2013), pp. 131-147.

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