SRA Neo-Latin in the Modern World

Dr. Stefano Poletti (Freiburg)

Researcher in Sub-Project 8

Contact

University of Freiburg
Seminar für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie
Platz der Universität 3
79085 Freiburg, Germany

email: stefano.poletti@altphil.uni-freiburg.de

Biography
CV
  • 2009 BA in Classics ( University of Pisa)
  • 2011 MA in  Classics ( University of Pisa)
  • 2012 Diploma di licenza in  Classics (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
  • 2013 (Lent/Easter Term) Erasmus PhD Student (University of Cambridge)
  • 2014-2015 Guest PhD Student (Universität Rostock), funded by a DAAD-Scholarship (4 months)
  • 2017 PhD in Classics, Scuola Normale Superiore (in cotutelle with the University of Rostock)
  • 2017-2018 Post-Doc, Latin Literature, Universität Rostock
  • 2018 Latin Lexicography Summer Workshop (München, Thesaurus linguae Latinae)
  • 2018-2019 Contract Lecturer, Latin Literature,  University of Pisa
  • 2019 Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for Foreign Scholars (declined)
  • 2019-2020 Post-Doc, Latin Literature, Scuola Normale Superiore
  • 2020-2026 Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat a.Z., Latin Literature),  University of Freiburg
  • 2022-2024 Fellow (“Beistellung”), Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies
  • 2022 Italian Habilitation / Latin Literature (Abilitazione scientifica nazionale come professore di seconda fascia)
  • 2024 E-Learning Certificate (E-Learning Department, Universität Freiburg)
  • 2026 Member of the Editorial Executive Board of the Giornale Italiano di Filologia (Brepols, Turnhout)
Organisation of Conferences
  • 2024 Pontes XI: Ancient Narrative Techniques – Receptions from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Freiburg, with S. Tilg)
  • 2024 XXIV NeoLatina conference: The Afterlife of Neo-Latin Literature (Freiburg, with S. Tilg)
  • 2019 Sicut commentatores loquuntur – Authorship and commentaries on poetry (Leipzig, with U. Tischer and Th. Kuhn-Trichel)
Research Interests
  • Latin literature (esp. Latin epic and novel) and its reception
  • Neo-Latin novel (esp. the roman à clef) and its reception
  • Ancient exegesis on Virgil
  • Liber pontificalis
  • Textual criticism and manuscript transmission of ancient texts
  • Literary theory, esp. intertextuality and narratology
Publications
Books
  • Neolatina (2024). The Afterlife of Neo-Latin Literature, Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, Tübingen, 2026 (with S. Tilg) [in press].
  • Liber pontificalis, vol. 1 – parte A, Le origini (da Pietro a Silvestro), Città Nuova, Roma, 2025 (with A. Ballardini, E. Castelli, A. Verardi; by S.P.: Latin text and philological commentary).
  • Sicut commentatores loquuntur. Authorship and authority in ancient commentaries on poetry, Brepols, Turnhout, 2023 (with U. Tischer und Th. Kuhn-Treichel).
  • Teologia della guerra civile. Il Bellum civile di Petronio e la tradizione epica latina, VML, Litora Classica, Rahden/Westf., 2022.
  • Giovanni 1-10, La Bibbia Commentata dai Padri, Città Nuova, Roma, 2017 (based on John 1-10, Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, ed. by J.C. Elowsky, 2006).
Articles, chapters and other contributions
  • Pasolini’s Petrolio: “modern Satyricon” and roman-à-clef, in S. Tilg, S. Poletti (eds), Neolatina (2024). The Afterlife of Neo-Latin Literature, Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, Tübingen, 2026 [in press].
  • Alla ricerca del tempo perduto. Lacune e “tempo narrativo” nella Cena Trimalchionis, Ordia Prima 4, 2026 [in press].
  • Bella … plus quam civ-Iliaca? On a pun in Lucan, Bellum Civile 1.1 and a topos of Latin epic proems, Classical Philology 121, 2026, 250-256.
  • Nel labirinto della tradizione del Satyricon di Petronio, in S. Franzoni, E. Lonati, A. Russo (eds), Mens humilis, studium quaerendi, vita quieta. Studi offerti dagli allievi a Ernesto Stagni, ETS, Pisa, 2026, 187-212.
  • Quod non expectes ex transverso fit. Un «nouveau» manuscrit de Pétrone à la Princeton University Library, in https://irht.hypotheses.org/8644, 17-18.2.2026 (with S. Franzoni, E. Stagni, G. Vannini).
  • Review of F. Gasti, A. Pizzotti (eds), La lingua greca nella tradizione grammaticale latina, Foggia, 2023, in Bollettino di Studi Latini 55, 2025, 279-82.
  • La Dissertatiuncula sciagraphica de Nerone Antichristi typo di Melchior Goldast. Un capitolo ritrovato della ricezione di Petronio, in P. D’Alessandro, A. Luceri (eds), Doctissimus antiquitatis perscrutator. Studi latini in onore di Mario De Nonno, Roma TrE-Press, Roma, 2024, 493-506.
  • Epic-Satiric Civil Wars. Petronius and Lucan in the work of John Barclay, in E.M. Ariemma, V. D’Urso, N. Lanzarone (eds), Studi sull’epica latina in onore di Paolo Esposito, ETS, Pisa, 2023, 595-606.
  • Negatio activa? Una congettura a Serv. auct. ecl. 5, 82, Giornale Italiano di Filologia 75, 2023, 229-234 (with F. Stok).
  • Introduction, in U. Tischer, Th. Kuhn-Treichel, S. Poletti (eds), Sicut commentatores loquuntur. Authorship and authority in ancient commentaries on poetry, Brepols, Turnhout, 2023, 7-34.
  • Eine Frage der Perspektive. Servius und Servius auctus über Vergils subjektiven Stil, in U. Tischer, Th. Kuhn-Treichel, S. Poletti (eds), Sicut commentatores loquuntur. Authorship and authority in ancient commentaries on poetry, Brepols, Turnhout, 2023, 223-259.
  • La scoliastica virgiliana sul ‘discorso indiretto libero’ (e dintorni)“, in C. Giammona, M. Rosellini, E. Spangenberg Yanes (eds), Latin Grammarians Forum 2021, Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim, 2023, 179-196
  • repullulo, Thesaurus linguae Latinae, Vol. XI.2.9, 2023 (with the Schola Aestiva 2018).
  • Critical notes on Servius’ commentary on Virgil (Serv. Aen. 11.741; Ecl. 2.58; Ecl. 4.4), Classical Quarterly 72, 2022, 868-876.
  • Servio fra Virgilio e Lucano. Una relazione intertestuale nell’esegesi antica, in S. Clément-Tarantino, J.-C. Jolivet, D. Vallat (eds), Poétique(s) des commentaires antiques, Collection Latomus, Peeters, Leuven, 2022, 134-147.
  • From the Rubicon to the Alps: Re-reading Eumolpus’ Caesar in Light of Silius Italicus’ Hannibal, in A. Augoustakis, M. Fucecchi (eds), Silius Italicus and the Tradition of the Roman Historical Epos, Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2022, 168-193.
  • Catastrofi annunciate e provvidenza crudele. Dèi, signa e profezie alle soglie della guerra civile, in P. Esposito (eds), Seminari Lucanei I. In memoria di Emanuele Narducci, ETS, Pisa, 2020, 27-60.
  • La semantica di ruo nell’esegesi virgiliana antica, Rationes rerum 14, 2019 [2020], 73-91.
  • Nemo… non nostrum peccat (Petron. Sat. 75.1). Habinnas’ maxim restored, Classical Quarterly 69, 2019, 921-925.
  • The Flight from Rome in Jan. 49 BCE. Rhetorical Patterns in the Narratives of Lucan and Cassius Dio, Hermathena – A Trinity College Dublin Review 196-197, 2014 [2018], 291-308.
  • Iterum Philippi. La ‘doppiezza di Filippi’ da Virgilio a Lucano, in A. Behrendt, S. Finkmann, A. Walter (eds), Antike Erzähl- und Deutungsmuster: Zwischen Exemplarität und Transformation, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 91-120.
  • Due note testuali (Serv. auct. Georg. 2, 148; 434), Hermes. Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie 146, 2018, 373-380.
  • Chronology and Exegesis in Proba’s Creation Account (Cento Probae 56-135), in S. Audano, M. Carmignani (eds), Vergiliocentones. Critical Studies, Brujas, Córdoba, 2017, 61-72 (with T. Behm and L. Keßler)
  • Riflettendo sul romanzo latino. A proposito di un recente volume [article-review of M. Carmignani, L. Graverini, B. Todd Lee (eds), Collected studies on the Roman novel, Brujas, Córdoba, 2013], Ordia Prima 14, 2015, 201-220.
  • Lecti ferro. Una nota a Serv. Dan. Aen. 9.146, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 158, 2015, 213-217.
  • A note on Petron. 122.153, Mnemosyne. A Journal of Classical Studies 68, 2015, 844-849.
  • Review of B. Larosa, P. Ovidii Nasonis Epistula Ex Ponto III 1: testo, traduzione e commento, Berlin/Boston 2012, in Maia. Rivista di letterature classiche 66, 2014, 641-645.
  • Il Servio Tullio di Livio e le sue ‘contraddizioni’. A proposito dell’elezione ritardata in Liv. I, 46, 1 e di altri stratagemmi liviani“, Studi Classici e Orientali, 59, 2013 [2014], 117-151.
  • La tradizione delle interpolazioni a Servio tipiche del Reg. Lat. 1495, in F. Stok (ed.), Totus scientia plenus. Percorsi dell’esegesi virgiliana antica, ETS, Pisa, 2013, 257-292.
Talks

(selection)

  • 28.11.2024 Il Satyricon fra ‘romanzo a chiave’ e allegoria: momenti della fortuna di Petronio (John Barclay, Melchior Goldast, Pasolini) (Milano-Statale, Guest Lecture)
  • 26-28.9.2024 Sub nominibus: The ‘à-clef’ technique from antiquity to present (with S. Tilg) (Freiburg, PONTES XI: Ancient Narrative Techniques – Receptions from the Middle Ages to the Present Day)
  • 19-21.6.2023 Ex animo Didonis. Epithet, focalisation and subjective style between Virgilian and Homeric exegesis (Frascati, Commenting on Virgil from Antiquity to the Present)
  • 1.6.2023 The allegorical interpretation of Petronius in the 16th and 17th century (Milano-Statale, Guest Lecture)
  • 10.10.2022 Satirische Bürgerkriege. Zur Petron-Imitation in John Barclays Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon (Mainz, Guest Lecture)
  • 20-22.09.2021 Virgilian exegesis on the free indirect discourse (Roma-Sapienza, Latin Grammarians Forum) 12.03.2021 Antike Exegese und Vergils subjektiver Stil (Basel Forschungskolloquium der Latinistik)
  • 21.10.2020 Sfuggire al tempo? Lettura ‘titubante’ della Praefatio di Livio (TITUBANTI TESTI 2. Binomio di Lettura)
  • 24.04.2020 Discordia e i suoi figli: come incatenare (e scatenare) il mostro. Apparato divino e rapporti di forza nell’epica latina (Pisa, Guest Lecture)
  • 5.02.2020 Eine Frage der Perspektive. Servius und Servius auctus über Vergils ‚subjektiven Stil’ (Freiburg, Kolloquium Altertumswissenschaften)
  • 26-28.09.2019 A matter of point of view. Servius and Servius auctus on Vergil’s subjective style (Leipzig, sicut commentatores loquuntur – Autorproblematik und antike Dichterexegese)
  • 10-11.09.2019 Petronius’ Bellum civile and Flavian Epic (Udine, Ritorno al futuro: i Punica di Silio Italico nella tradizione dell’epica storica romana)
  • 30-31.05.2019 Interpretive problems from Servius’ commentary on Vergil (TC Dublin, Editing Ancient Latin Grammarians)
  • 14.12.2018 Überlieferung und Rekonstruktion einer Petron-Sentenz (Rostock, Ringvorlesung Schwere Stellen – schöne Stellen)
  • 22-23.11.2018 The lacunae in the Cena Trimalchionis (Firenze, Un cantiere petroniano 2)
  • 11-14.07.2018 Quod hodie non est cras erit. Reconsidering Petronius’ tradition (St Andrews, 11th Celtic Conference in Classics – Panel: Texts, Traditions and Transmissions)
  • 6.07.2018 Deorum ministeria an der Schwelle des Bürgerkrieges. Petronius’ Bellum civile und die epische Tradition (Leipzig Tagung Aquilonia)
  • 25.05.2018Ein vermeintliches Lukrez-Fragment in Servius (Leipzig, Guest Lecture)
  • 2-3.11.2017 Riflessioni sul florilegio (Firenze, Un cantiere petroniano)
  • 17-19.11.2016 Lucan and Servius’ Vergil. Ancient exegesis and the making of an intertextual relationship (Lille Colloque international Poétique(s) des commentaires antiques)
  • 24-26.04.2015 Cento Probae, 65-135: the Creation account, with T. Behm & L. Keßler (Gent Nachwuchsforum Latein – Cento Probae en Ausonius’ Cento nuptialis)
  • 5-6.12.2014 Die Dirae (Rostock, Symposium Was will der Autor?)
  • 5-6.09.2014 Letters from/to Pontus. Imagery of Sterility and Failure of Communication in Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto III (Cambridge, AMPAL 2014 Failure in Ancient Literature)
  • 25-27.08.2014 The flight from Rome in January 49 BC (Kavala, The Roman civil wars of 49-30 BC)
  • 13.12.2013 Teologia della guerra civile. Eumolpo fra Virgilio e Lucano (Pisa, Seminari dottorali Pisa-Parigi)
  • 19-21.09.2013 Il Servius auctus tipico del Reg. Lat. 1495 (Roma Tor Vergata, Totus scientia plenus. Percorsi dell’esegesi virgiliana antica)
  • 5.06.2013 Petronius’ Bellum civile (Cambridge Classics Research Seminars – Literature Seminar)

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