Research: The end of Mauretanian kingdom: a retrospective from Ptolemaeus to Juba II
Doctor Europaeus with the Université Paris Nanterre.
Research stay in Paris from September 15 to December 15, 2023.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(The following papers are currently being published in the proceedings):
• “Cases of interaction and dialogue between animals and humans in the Λιβυκά of Juba II of Mauretania,” Proceedings of the conference “Classically. Sienese Dialogues on the Ancient World” (University of Siena, January 18-19, 2024).
• “Pliny and the discovery of Juba II's Euphorbia as an antidote to snake venom,” Proceedings of the conference “Pliny the Elder: Medicine, Magic, and Religion” (University of Lisbon, October 2023);
• “On the margins of the empire: Juba II's Mauretania in Augustus' foreign policy,” Proceedings of the conference Seeds of Wisdom (Sapienza University of Rome, June 2023).
• “The troubled redactio in formam provinciae of the kingdom of Mauretania: state intervention and local revolts,” Proceedings of the conference Rome and the provinces between integration and dissent (University of Milan, May 2023);
• “African identity and dignity in the accounts of the geographical explorations of Juba II of Mauretania,” Proceedings of the conference Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 3 (Rome Tor Vergata, May 2023);
• " Images of Africa in the Λιβυκά of Juba II of Mauritania," Proceedings of the international conference Roman Africa XXII (Sbeitla, Tunisia, December 2022);
CONTRIBUTIONS CURRENTLY BEING PUBLISHED (in addition to those from the above conferences):
• Chronicle of the conference "From Sallust to Tacitus: reflections flections on the republic” (Milan, November 23-24, 2023), in Bollettino di Studi Latini (forthcoming)
• “Bergomum,” in F. Russo (ed.), Piccole storie di città dell’Italia romana, Milan 2024 (forthcoming)
• “Parma,” in F. Russo (ed.), Piccole storie di città dell’Italia romana, Milan 2024 (forthcoming)
• “A double-edged sword. Augustus' marriage policies in Mauretania: solution or cause of crisis?”, in M. Bellomo (ed.), Strategies for recovery. Emerging from crisis in the Roman world, Milan 2024 (forthcoming)
LECTURES given in person:
• December 14, 2023: Lecture in French as part of the Séminaire d'Histoire romaine (Univ. Paris Nanterre): “Générations royales en Maurétanie entre Auguste et Caligula.”
• November 23, 2023: Lecture in French as part of the Latin Epigraphy course (Paris Nanterre University): presentation of a senatorial career
• October 12, 2023: Lecture in French during the Latin for Historians course (Paris Nanterre University): presentation of a letter by Cicero
• March 17, 2023: Joint lecture during the Latin Epigraphy course (University of Milan) at the Archaeological Museum of Milan: educational presentation of epigraphs to students.
PRE-DOCTORAL RECOGNITIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
• June-July 2022: Research stay at the University of Paris Nanterre.
Study the political relationship between Juba II and Augustus, comparing it to that of other kings allied with Rome.
• 2021: “Clementina Gatti cat. A” scholarship from the University of Milan for a thesis in Ancient History with a stay abroad.
• October 2020-October 2022: Teacher of Italian, history, and Latin in two high schools (competition class A011)
DEGREE COURSE:
Sept. 2018 – June 2021: Master's Degree in Philology, Literature, and History of Antiquity, at the University of Milan (110/110 cum laude, academic year 2019-2020). Supervisors: Prof. Simonetta Segenni, Prof. Federico Russo. Co-supervisor: Prof. Michele Bellomo
Sept. 2015 – July 2018: Bachelor's Degree in Literature from the University of Milan (110/110 cum laude). Supervisor: Prof. Michele Bellomo