University of Innsbruck

Department for Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies

room 06F040 (6th floor)
Innrain 52a (Ágnes-Heller-Haus)
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
phone: +43 512 507-40705
email: riccardo.stigliano@uibk.ac.at

• 1999: Born in Policoro (Province of Matera), Italy
• 2018: High School Diploma (Classical Lyceum / Humanities-focused secondary education)
• 2018–2021: Bachelor’s Degree, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”.
• 2021–2023: Master’s Degree, Sapienza University of Rome
• Since April 2024: Research Associate / Postgraduate Researcher in the project “Scanderbegus Latinus”.
• Sep-Nov 2026: visiting scholarschip at the University of Ottawa

• Skanderbeg in Neo-Latin Literature
• Late Antique and Byzantine Historiography
• History of Late Antiquity
• Procopius of Caesarea
• Epistolography and Fictitious Letter Literature
• Theophylact Simocatta
• Italian (and European) Mannerist Literature
• Marinism as the last Italian poetic movement with a European dimension
• Giovan Battista Marino
• Margherita Sarrocchi and her vernacular Skanderbeg epic, “La Scanderbeide”

• Conferences and Presentations
  • Jun 20, 2024: How to create consent, how to make Caesaropapism: similarities between Justinian’s Constitutio Imperatoriam and the Proem of Procopius’ Buildings. “Consent in the Global Late Antique and Medieval Ages”, CLAMS Summer Workshop, King’s College London, UK.
  • Jan 17–18, 2025: Reaction Regarding Groups and Individuals at the Departure of Iolcus (A.R. 1.234-361). “Metageitnia 2025”, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Jan 31 – Feb 1, 2025: Procopius of Caesarea’s Vandal Wars, I Book: why a Literary Commentary?. “Akmé 2024”, University of Salzburg, Austria.
  • May 5–6, 2025: Tradurre, tradire: la traditio di Procopio di Cesarea alla luce delle traduzioni umanistico-rinascimentali. “La lingua dell’altro. Teorie e pratiche della traduzione”, Roma Tre University, Italy.
  • Jun 27–28, 2025: An unfortunate literary fortune? Procopius’ reception. “Akmé 2025”, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria.
  • Jul 11, 2025: When the emperors’ names rhyme: rhetorical figures for criticizing the ruler. International Medieval Congress (IMC), University of Leeds, UK.
  • Sep 14–19, 2025: An Albanian general who knows Latin: (fictional) letters, harangues and speeches in Barletius’ Historia de vita et gestis Scanderbegi. Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS), Aix-Marseille University, France.
  • Oct 16–18, 2025: Addressing the issue of orality and its interactions with aurality and literacy in “Late Late Antiquity”. Conference “Orality, Aurality and Literacy in Late Antiquity”, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria.
  • Feb 16, 2026: A praise that does not praise the king: Procopius’ proem to the Buildings. (Chair: Professor Gianfranco Agosti, University of Pisa).
  • Feb 18, 2026: “Turbare” la tradizione: le triadi eccentriche del corpus epistolografico di Teofilatto Simocatta. International Workshop “Theophylaktos Simokates im Spiegel seiner Welt / Teofilatto Simocatta nello specchio del suo mondo” (Feb 16-19, 2026), Villa Vigoni (Italian-German Centre for European Dialogue), Menaggio (Como), Italy.
  • Mar 23–24, 2026: The digressions in Procopius’ Bellum Vandalicum, Book 3. Workshop “From Athens to Constantinople VI: Late Antique and Byzantine Literature in Context. Digressive Storytelling in Historiography and Prose Literature of (Late) Antiquity”, University of Vienna, Austria.
  • Apr 16, 2026: De Gélimer à Gelsimère: la réception d’un personnage du Bellum Vandalicum de Procope. Université Lumière Lyon 2, France.
  • May 21–22, 2026: Scanderbeg in the Late Byzantine Chronicles. Workshop “Scanderbegus Latinus”, University of Tirana, Albania.
  • Aug 24–29, 2026: A not received reception? Gregory of Nazianzus and Pedro Calderón de la Barca. 25th International Congress of Byzantine Studies (ICBS2026), University of Vienna, Austria.
• Conference and Event Organization
  • Apr 25, 2025: “Nox Latina / Lange Nacht der Antike”, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria.
  • Oct 16–18, 2025: International Conference “Orality, Aurality and Literacy in Late Antiquity”, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria.
  • May 21–22, 2026: Final Conference of the “Scanderbegus Latinus” Project, University of Tirana, Albania.
• Organization of Guest Lectures (Guest Talks)
  • Apr 7, 2025: Studying Moral Authority Pomerius and Gregory the Great’s Legacy in Merovingian and Carolingian Scriptoria. Speaker: Dr. Martina Carandino (University of Oxford). Organized at Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck.
  • Jun 17, 2026: Prof. Anna Maria Taragna (University of Turin) and Dr. Larisa Ficulle Santini (ÖAW)

• Published
  • L’intellighenzia artificiale: traduzione ed ermeneutica nell’era dell’IA.  In: Intelligenza Artificiale e Psiche, Psiche Arte e Società. Rivista semestrale del Centro Studi Psiche Arte e Società, No. 20, year XI (April 2024).
  • Laonikos Chalkokondyles. The Last Byzantine Historian and the Dawn of Ottoman Historiography. «Hermes» Platform for early modern Hellenism (Leuven, October 1, 2025).
    
• Forthcoming/Accepted for Publication                                                                                
  • Per una proposta di studio dei cataloghi in Tucidide. Accepted for publication in Histos (2026).
  • When the emperors’ names rhyme: rhetorical figures for criticizing the ruler. Accepted for publication by the Accademia Storico-Giuridica Costantiniana (2026).
  • Tradurre, tradire: la traditio e la fortuna di Procopio di Cesarea alla luce delle traduzioni (ed edizioni) umanistico-rinascimentali. Forthcoming in Res Publica Litterarum (Rome, 2026).
    
• Under Review (Submitted)
  • How to create consent, how to make Caesaropapism: similarities between Justinian’s Constitutio Imperatoriam and the Proem of Procopius’ Buildings. (Submitted to Byzantinische Zeitschift).
  • Reaction Regarding Groups and Individuals at the Departure of Iolcus (A.R. 1.234-361). In collaboration with Dr. Facundo A. Peirano (University of Buenos Aires / Trinity College Dublin). (Submitted to RPL).
  • Procopius Of Caesarea, Beyond The Manuscripts And The Prints (An Addition To The History Of The Traditio Textus). Presented at the Incontri Triestini di Filologia Classica, Trieste.
    
• In Preparation (To Be Submitted)
  • Da Gelimero a Gelsimere: la ricezione di un personaggio del Bellum Vandalicum procopiano. (To be submitted to the journal SemiCerchio).
  • Two Epic Poems on Skanderbeg in Comparison: Jean de Bussières and Margherita Sarrocchi between Renaissance and Baroque. (Already finished, to be submitted to the journal Terminus).
  • An Albanian general who knows Latin: (fictional) letters, harangues and speeches in Barletius’ Historia de vita et gestis Scanderbegi. (To be submitted to the journal Terminus).
  • Oscillazioni manoscritte tra la particella ἐς ed εἰς nelle Guerre procopiane: una scelta linguistica consapevole o ipercorrettismo dei copisti? (In progress).

• Until A.Y. 2023/2024: Active member of the Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica (AICC), Bari Chapter.
• Jan 14, 2025: Joined the team of Hellenet.net, a blog for the dissemination and research on Hellenistic literature and culture.
• Jan 21, 2025: Partnership with «Hermes» Platform for early modern Hellenism, for which I authored a biographical entry on Laonikos Chalkokondyles.