CURRICULUM VITAE
GIUSEPPE LA BUA
Associate Professor of Latin Literature
Department of Ancient World Studies
“Sapienza” University Rome
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5
I- 00185 Roma
Phone (office) ++390649913821
Email: giuseppe.labua@uniroma1.it
Part I– Education
1989 Cum laude degree (Laurea in Lettere - Sapienza University of Rome). Final dissertation in Latin Language and Literature on “The indirect tradition of Virgil’s text”
1995 PhD Classics (University of Pisa). Final dissertation on the “Hymns in Latin Poetry”
Part II – Appointments
IIA – Academic Appointments
2023-present Director Teaching and Learning Center Sapienza – Formation of Teachers (A011 and A013)
2022-present National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor of Classical and Late Antique Philology
2019-present Junior Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Studies (SSAS), Sapienza University of Rome
2018-present National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor of Latin Language and Literature
2012-present Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Ancient World Studies
2005-2012 Assistant Professor of Latin Literature, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Ancient World Studies (on leave 2010-2011)
2010-2011 Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Department of the Classics
2010 (Summer Term) Visiting Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder
2005 (Spring Term) Visiting Scholar, University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics
2005-present Member of the Scientific Board PhD Program Classics and Ancient History - Sapienza University of Rome
IIB – Other (past) Appointments
1995-2004 Teacher of Latin and Greek at High Secondary School
1997-2001 Post-doctoral Fellow (Latin Literature), LUMSA, University of Rome
1994-1997 Post-doctoral Fellow (Roman History), LUMSA, University of Rome
1994-2004 Teaching Assistant of Latin Literature, Sapienza University of Rome
Part III – Teaching experience
List of courses taught:
LUMSA, University of Rome
1) Roman History: Introduction to Roman History: undergraduate course, 12 CFU, year 1994-1995; LC Classics
2) Roman History: Ancient Roman Biography: undergraduate course, 12 CFU, year 1995-1996; LC Classics
3) Roman History: The Roman world in the Age of Augustus: undergraduate course, 12 CFU, year 1996-1997; LC Classics
4) Latin Literature: Introduction to Latin Poetry: undergraduate course, 12 CFU, year 1997-1998; LC Classics
5) Latin Literature: Latin Prosody and Stylistics: undergraduate course, 12 CFU, year 1998-1999; LC Classics
6) Latin Literature: Latin Poetry Authors: undergraduate course, 12 CFU, year 1999-2000; LC Classics
7) Latin Literature: Latin Poetry Authors: undergraduate course, 12 CFU, year 2000-2001; LC Classics
Sapienza University of Rome
1) Latin Literature: Survey of Latin literature: undergraduate course, 4 CFU, year 2005-2006 Fall Term, LC Classics and Modern Studies
2) Latin Literature: Cicero’s Caesarian Speeches: undergraduate course, 4 CFU, year 2005-2006 Spring Term, LC Classics
3) Latin Literature: Latin Epistles I: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2006-2007 Fall Term, LM Classics
4) Latin Literature: Latin Epistles II: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2006-2007 Spring Term, LM Classics
5) Latin Literature: Horace’s Odes: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2007-2008 Fall Term, LC Classics
6) Latin Literature: Ovid’s Fasti: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2007-2008 Spring Term, LC Classics
7) Latin Literature: Literature and Power in the Roman World I: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2008-2009 Fall Term, LM Classics
8) Latin Literature: Literature and Power in the Roman World II: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2008-2009 Spring Term, LM Classics
9) Latin Literature: Apuleius’ Golden Ass: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2009-2010 Fall Term, LC Classics
10) Latin Literature: Lucan’s Civil War: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2009-2010 Spring Term, LM Classics
11) Latin Literature: Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things: graduate course, 6 CFU, 2011-2012, Spring Term, LC Classics
12) Latin Literature: Cicero’s Catilinarians: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2012-2013, Fall Term, LC Classics
13) Latin Literature: The Poetics of Exile in Latin Literature: graduate course, 12 CFU, year 2012-2013, LM Classics
14) Latin Literature: Latin Prose: undergraduate course, 12 CFU, year 2013-2014, Spring Term, LC Classics
15) Latin Literature: Catullus’ poetry: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2013-2014, Spring Term, LM Classics
16) Latin Literature: Cicero’s Philosophy: undergraduate course, 12 CFU, year 2014-2015, Spring Term, LC Classics
17) Latin Literature: Petronius’ Satyrica: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2014-2015, Spring Term, LM Classics
18) Latin Literature: Cicero’s Philippics: undergraduate course, 12 CFU, year 2015-2016, Spring Term, LC Classics
19) Latin Literature: Ovid’s Heroides: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2015-2016, Spring Term, LM Classics
20) Latin Literature: Roman Oratory from late Republic to early imperial age: undergraduate course, 12 CFU, year 2016-2017, Fall and Spring Term, LC Classics
21) Latin Literature: Seneca’s Tragedies: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2016-2017, Spring Term, LM Classics
22) Latin Literature: Horace’s Poems: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2017-2018, Fall Term, LC Classics
23) Latin Literature: Cicero’s pro Milone and pro Caelio: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2017-2018, Spring Term, LC Classics
24) Latin Literature: Ovid’s Ars Amatoria: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2017-2018, Spring Term, LM Classics
25) Latin Literature: Roman Philosophy: Lucretius’ De rerum natura: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2018-2019, Fall Term, LC Classics
26) Latin Literature: Sallust’s Historiography: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2018-2019, Spring Term, LC Classics
27) Latin Literature: Propertius’ Elegies: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2018-2019, Spring Term, LM Classics
28) Latin Literature: The Roman Novel: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2019-2020, Fall Term, LC Classics
29) Latin Literature: Lucan’s Bellum Civile: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2019-2020, Spring Term, LC Classics
30) Latin Literature and Classical Philology: Teaching Latin in the Classroom: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2019-2020, Spring Term, LM Classics
31) Latin Literature: Virgil’s Georgics: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2021-22, Fall Term, LC Classics
32) Latin Literature: Cicero’s epistles: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2021-22, Spring Term, LC Classics
33) Latin Literature: Tibullus’ Elegies: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2021-22, Spring Term, LM Classics
34) Latin Literature: Roman Epic: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2022-23, Fall Term, LC Classics
35) Latin Literature: Cicero’s Oratory: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2022-23, Spring Term, LC Classics
36) Latin Literature: Petronius’ Satyrica: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2022-23, Spring Term, LM Classics
37) Latin Literature: Ovid’s Metamorphoses: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2023-24, Fall Term, LC Classics
38) Latin Literature: Cicero’s De re publica and De legibus: undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2023-24, Spring Term, LC Classics
39) Latin Literature: Ovid’s Amores: graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2023-24, Spring Term, LM Classics
40) Latin Literature: Roman Satire, undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2024-25, Fall Term, LC Classics
41) Classical Philology: Roman Philology, undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2024-25, Fall Term, Classics (course in English)
42) Latin Literature: Cicero’s political oratory, undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2024-25, Spring Term, LC Classics
43) Latin Literature: Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and the Roman Novel, graduate course, 6 CFU, year 2024-25, Spring Term, LM Classics
44) Latin Literature: Lucretius and Roman Epicureanism, undergraduate course, 6 CFU, year 2025-26, Fall Term, LC Classics
Courses taught as Visiting Professor
1) Roman culture: Masterpieces of Roman Literature, undergraduate and graduate course, 96 hours, Summer Term 2010 (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Other courses
1) Roman culture and history: Roman Civilization: undergraduate course, in English, 12 CFU, 2019-2020, Fall Term (USAC, University Studies Abroad Consortium, Viterbo, Tuscia)
2) Classical Philology: Pseudepigrapha in Classical Literature: SSAS Course (in Italian and English), 6 CFU, 2021-22 Spring Term (SSAS School of Advanced Studies Sapienza)
Supervision of more than 100 final dissertations (Latin Literature and Classical Philology) since 2005
Supervision of final dissertations PhD Classics
Part IV – Public Lectures
1) The Zeus hymns of Cleanthes and Aratus, Sapienza University of Rome, April 1999
2) Hymns in Seneca’s Tragedies, University of L’Aquila, Department of Classics, May 1999
3) The arrangement and selection of the Ciceronian works in the ancient school, University of L’Aquila, Department of Classics, April 2000
4) The paradosis of Cicero’s De Divinatione, University of Basilicata, Department of Classics, May 2000
5)Hymns in the literature of the Augustan Age, Italian Association of Classical Culture, Rome, February 2001
6) The ancient commentaries on Cicero’s speeches and the ancient Ciceronian criticism, University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics, April 2005
7) Problems of Ciceronian Chronology, University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics, May 2005
8) Pseudoasconiana: ancient Ciceronian criticism and Servius’ commentary on Virgil, Sapienza University of Rome, December 2005
9) Cicero’s speeches in the ancient school, Italian Association of Classical Culture, Rome, May 2007
10) Leges, sed retractatum, quae causa recitandi fuit (Plin. 8.21): Orality and Writing in Pliny’s Letters, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Classics, January 2009
11) Aristocratic Ethics, Orality and Writing in Pliny’s Epistles, Italian Association of Classical Culture, Viterbo, April 2009
12) Between Poetry and Politics: Horace and the East, Penn University Philadelphia, December 2010, Harvard University, March 2011
13) Acting as Cicero and against Cicero: the mock-trial in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 3.3-11, Princeton University, Columbia University, March 2011; University of Cincinnati, April 2011
14) La negazione della sapientia. Riflessioni sulla reprehensio Ciceronis nella prima età imperiale, Università di Palermo, March 21, 2017
15) Cicero and Sinon. Deceptive Oratory and Anti-Ciceronian Propaganda in Vergil and the late rhetorical tradition, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, February 7, 2023
16) Veri e falsi Catilina: rileggere la congiura catilinaria attraverso i secoli, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, October 11, 2023
17) Feminae cultae (e non) nella tarda Repubblica, IISC Rome, 17.01.2025
Part V – Conference papers
1) Diritto e retorica. Cicerone iure peritus in Seneca retore e Quintiliano, paper delivered at the 12th Colloquium Tullianum, “Centro di Studi Ciceroniani”, Salamanca, October 7th -9th, 2004
2) La laus deorum nei panegirici latini di età imperiale, paper delivered at the 16th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR), Strasbourg, July 24th -28th 2007
3) The Restoration of the Schools of Autun: Rhetoric and Education in Third-Century Gaul, paper delivered at APA 140th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, January 8th -11th , 2009
4) Writing in Roman Declamations, paper delivered at 17th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR), Montreal, July 20th - 26th, 2009
5) Orazio e l’Oriente tra politica e letteratura, paper delivered at the International Conference “Orientalismo Romano”, Rome, November 19th-21st, 2009
6) Medicina consularis: Cicerone e la cura dello stato, paper delivered at the V Symposium Ciceronianum Arpinas, Arpino, May 10th, 2013
7) Nihil infinitum est nisi Oceanus (Sen. suas. 1, 1): il mare nelle declamazioni latine, paper delivered at the International Conference “Omnia pontus erat: il mare nella letteratura latina”, Rome, January 23rd-24th, 2014
8) Cicerone e l’educazione nel mondo tardoantico, paper delivered at the International Conference “Tradizione vs innovazione in età tardo antica. Letteratura, scuola, traduzione”, Rome, June 9th, 2014
9) Intertestualità, parodia e immortalità della poesia: Petronio e Ovidio, paper delivered at the International Conference “Ovid: Death and Transfiguration”, Rome, March 7th -9th , 2017
10) Cicero…nec prodesse tantum sed etiam amari potest (Quint. Inst. 2.5.19): Cicerone idoneus auctor e maestro dell’arte dell’illusione in Quintiliano e nei commentari tardo-antichi, paper delivered at the VIII Symposium Arpinas, Arpino, May 12th, 2017
11) Intratextual Readings in Ovid’s Heroides’, paper delivered at 11th Trends in Classics Conference ‘Intratextuality and Roman Literature’, Thessaloniki, May 25th-27th, 2017
12) Cicero’s Last Fight for the Republic in Greek and Roman Historians, paper delivered at 11th Celtic Classics Conference, University of St. Andrews, 11th-14th July, 2018
13) Celebrating the Death of Elegy: Lygdamus’ Elegies (Tib. 3.1-6), paper delivered at the International Conference “Constructing Authors and Readers in the Appendices Vergiliana, Tibulliana, and Ovidiana”, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, September, 6th-8th, 2018
14) Novitas e nobilitas nella tradizione biografica dell’Arpinate, paper delivered at the International Conference “Ritratti di Cicerone-Portraying Cicero’, Rome, May, 15th-17th, 2019
15) Teaching Cicero through the Scholia, Leiden online workshop, 30th June 2020/28th June 2021
16) Religio e dissimulatio: culto e superstizione nella strategia retorica ciceroniana, paper delivered at the Settimana Dottorale Triestina (September, 21st-23th, 2021)
17) Didattica della storia e laus principis: la retorica del paesaggio nei Panegyrici Latini, paper delivered at the Conference “La natura in parola. Visioni del paesaggio nella letteratura latina”, Padova, February, 16th-17th, 2022
18) Cicerone maestro dell’arte dell’illusione, paper delivered at the ‘II Giornata Mondiale della Lingua Latina’, Roma, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, 7th April, 2022
19) Presentation of the Proceedings of the International Conference Cicero Digitalis, paper delivered at the Conference “Adsum igitur. Cicerone nel secolo bravissimo: Antichistica digitale e prospettive di studio”, Vercelli, May, 19th, 2022
21) Dal ‘vero’ al ‘falso’ Catilina: retorica e politica nei pseudepigrapha ciceroniani, paper delivered at the International Conference “Le vie del falso. Storia, letteratura, arte”, Università di Trento, Trento, May 26th-28th, 2022
22) Silvas depopulatus est (Cic. Mil. 26): natura violata, politica e invettiva nella strategia retorica ciceroniana, paper delivered at the International Conference “Cicerone e l’ambiente”, Università di Bologna, SIAC, Bologna, January 23rd-24th, 2023
23) Re-inventing Catiline. Cicero’s (and Catiline’s) Medieval and Early Modern Pseudepigrapha, paper delivered at the International Conference “Contesting Authenticity, 1200-1700”, University of London, London, March 29th-31st, 2023
24) Plinio il Giovane e la creazione di una moderna idea di luxuria, paper delivered at the International Conference “Luxuria: il peccato capitale dei Romani”, Rome, April 1st, 2023
25) Cattivi e buoni oratori, cattive e buone abitudini: la correcta eloquentia e la ricerca del consenso nell’epistolario di Plinio il Giovane, paper delivered at the International Conference “L’oratore sale in tribuna”, Rome, University of Tor Vergata, 13 March 2024
26) Insinuatio e retorica come arte della dissimulatio nel De inventione di Cicerone, paper delivered at the International Conference ‘Lecturae Ciceronis 2024: le de Inventione entre philosophie, droit et rhétorique’, Paris, Sorbonne, 21-23 March 2024
27) Playing down love poetry; Ovid and Persius’ construction of the self, paper delivered at the International Conference ‘Generic Interfaces in Persius’, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, 20-21 February 2025
28) Quae autem epistula non pondus habuit? (Cic. ad Brut. 1.14 [22 SB] 1.1): riflessioni sulla funzione dell’epistola ‘politica’ nel corpus ad Brutum, paper delivered at the International Conference ‘Lecturae Ciceronis 2025: Le lettere ad Brutum tra politica, retorica e filosofia’, University of Turin, 20-21 March 2025
29) Virtus, sapientia e vita secundum naturam nel progetto politico ciceroniano, paper delivered at the International Conference Secundum naturam vivere: Ein antikes Konzept und seine Transformationen, Schloss Neuhardenberg, Deutschland, 22-24 May 2025
30) Riscrivere il classico nel Rinascimento: la pseudo-ciceroniana Oratio adversus Valerium, paper delivered at the International Conference Falsum Est. Mihi Crede, Sapienza University of Rome, 4 June 2025
31) Nec vero necesse est quemquam a me nominari: vobiscum ipsi recordamini (Cic. Phil. 2.1): memoria sui, esemplarità e invettiva nelle Catilinarie e Filippiche di Cicerone, paper delivered at the International Colloque Persuader et faire mémoire à Rome à la fin de la République, Lyon 6-7 November 2025
Part VI – Organization of International Conferences
2008 Organization and coordination of the International Conference ‘Vates Operose Dierum’ (Studi sui Fasti di Ovidio) – Sapienza University of Rome (conference held on May 8, 2008)
2019 Organization and coordination of the International Conference ‘Portraying Cicero/Ritratti di Cicerone – Sapienza University of Rome (conference held in Rome on May 17-19, 2019)
2024 Organization and coordination of the International Conference ‘Crafting a Lie. Forgeries in the Classical Tradition’ – Sapienza University of Rome (conference held in Rome on May 8-10, 2024)
2024 Organization and coordination of the Panel ‘Forging Authorship’ at the CCC (Celtic Conference), held in Cardiff on July 9-12, 2024
2025 Organization and coordination of the International Conference ‘Falsum Est. Mihi Crede’, held in Rome on June 4, 2025
Part VII - Society memberberships, Awards and Honors
2010-2011 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship and Visiting Scholar Department of Classics, Harvard
2010 FIRST Grant and Visiting Professor, Department of Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder (Summer Term 2010)
2007-2008 Research Grant, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Greek and Latin Philology
2005 Tytus Margo Fellow and Visiting Scholar (Spring Term), University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics
2001-2002 Research Grant, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Greek and Latin Philology
2002 Prize-winner of the “Latinarum Litterarum Linguaeque Certamen Capitolinum II” (sponsored by the Roman Studies Institute) with the book “L’inno nella letteratura poetica latina”
2018-present Member of the SIAC (Societé Internationale des Amis de Cicéron)
2020-present Member of the Network for Oratory and Politics, University of Birmingham
2024-present Member of the International Society of Ovidian Studies
2020-present Member of the Scientific Board of the Centre of Ciceronian Studies of Arpino (Centro di Studi Umanistici M. Tullio Cicerone)
2013-present Member of the Editorial/Scientific Board of the journal ‘Rationes Rerum. Rivista di Filologia e Storia’
2018-present Member of the Editorial/Scientific Board of the Book Series ‘Il carro di Medea’ (Collana Editoriale Scientifica, Deinotera Editrice, ISSN 2724-234X)
2025-present Member of the Editorial/Scientific Board of the Book Series ‘Minima Philologica’ (Collana Editoriale Scientifca, Dell’Orso Editore)
2025-present Member of the Editorial/Scientific Board of the journal ‘FALSUM’
Part VIII – Academic and Professional Service
2025 Coordinator of the PhD Committee Board University of Pisa (Classics and Ancient History Program)
2025 Member and Coordinator of the PhD Committee Board Sapienza Rome (Classics and Ancient History Program)
2022-present Director of the Teaching and Learning Centre, Formation of High School Teachers (Latin and Greek), Sapienza University of Rome and President of the Committee Board for the selection of teachers
2019-present Vice-Coordinator of the Class of Humanities at the School of Advanced Studies (SSAS), Sapienza University of Rome, and President of the Evaluation Committee (for the selection of the students and PhD candidates)
2022 Member of the Committee Board for the selection of tenure-track researchers and professors of Latin Literature (Sapienza University of Rome)
2019 Member and Coordinator of the PhD Committee Board (Classics and Ancient History Program)
2015-present President of the Excellence Program Classics (Sapienza University of Rome)
2005-present Member of the PhD Board (Classics and Ancient History Program), Sapienza University of Rome
Referee for the journals: Dictynna, Museum Helveticum, Rationes Rerum, Bollettino di Studi Latini, Maia, Seneca, Mnemosyne, Paideia, Latomus, Rheinisches Museum, Acta Conventus Neolatini
Part IX - Funding Information [grants as PI-principal investigator or I-investigator]
Direction of and Participation in Team/Research Groups and Activities (national and international)
2023–present Member (I) of the Research Project ‘Breaking the Silence. Exploring Human-Animal Interactions in the Classical World’, funded by Sapienza University of Rome, grant value 30000
2022-present Member and PI (Principal Investigator) of the Rome Research Group PRIN ‘FALSUM’ (national project coordinated by Sandro La Barbera of the University of Trento); 2022 BE7TAT_004; SH5; 24 months; grant value 24206
2022-present Member (I) of the Research Group University Project (Partenariato Esteso – Spoke 5) ‘Sacred Landscape along the river Aniene and the Tiburtina Way: archaeological and literary contexts’
2022-present Member (I) of the Research Group University Project ‘From philosophia to sapientia. Greek and Latin Philosophical Language’, funded by Sapienza University of Rome, grant value 10000
2022- Member (I) of the Research Group ‘Falsarios. Falsa et Vera Historia’, coordinated by Javier Martinez of the University of Oviedo
2021-present PI (Principal Investigator) Research Project ‘Fakes and Forgeries in Literature and Culture (from Antiquity to the Renaissance), funded by Sapienza University of Rome, grant value 32500
2020-present Member (I) of the Research Group University Project ‘Luxuria: A Romans’ cardinal sin (I-II centuries CE)’, funded by Sapienza University of Rome, grant value 50000
2019- Member (I) of the Research Group University Project ‘Esperimento di stilometria computazionale ai fini attribuzionistici applicata ai testi letterari latini’, funded by Sapienza University of Rome, grant value 10000
2018- Member (I) of the Research Group University Project ‘AQUA. Antiche questioni vitali sull’acqua’, funded by Sapienza University of Rome, grant value 10000
2017- Member (I) of the Research Group University Project ‘Linking Evidence. A digital approach to Medieval and Early Renaissance Rome’, funded by Sapienza University of Rome, grant value 26000
2017- Member (I) of the Research Group PRIN ‘Nature and Italian landscape in Roman culture from August to Trajan’ (2017NWWA58_001; SH5; 36 months; from 20.01.2020)
2016- Member (I) of the Research Group University Project ‘Dalla Grecia micenea all’Ellenismo: archetipi, modelli e motivi letterari per la cultura romana (I a.C.-II d.C.)’, funded by Sapienza University of Rome, grant value 8000
2015 Member (I) of the Research Group PRIN ‘Center and periphery in imperial Latin literature’ (CYTKLZ_010; SH5; 36 months; from 05.02.2017) (I)
2015 Member (I) of the Research Group University Project ‘Public and Domestic Life in the Roman Forum’ (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2014 Member (I) of the Research Group University Project ‘Texts and material supports of texts in antiquity’ (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2013 Member (I) of the Research Group University Project ‘Schools in late antiquity; books, texts, history and society in the Mediterranean’ (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2010 Member (I) of the Research Group University Project ‘Literature, translation and school in late antiquity’ (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2009 Member (I) of the Research Group PRIN ‘Tradition vs innovation in late antiquity’ (2009PTXJF_004; Area 10; 24 months)
2007-2009 PI (Principal Investigator) Research Project ‘Studies on the late antique scholia and the reception of Cicero’s orations’, grant value 20000
2008-2009 Member (I) of the Research Group University Project ‘Exemplary texts in the curriculum in late antiquity’ (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2006-2007 Member (I) of the Research Group University Project ‘Teaching Latin in late antiquity’ (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2005-2006 Member (I) of the Research Group University Project ‘Priscianus’ De accentibus’ (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2005 Member (I) of the Research Group University Project ‘Philology, language and grammatical studies in late antiquity’ (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
Part X – Research Activities
Key words:
Ancient religion and literature
Rhetoric and oratory
Cicero
Augustan poetry and elegy
Receptions studies and history of classical philology
Fakes and forgeries in classical literature
History of education
Part XI – Summary of Scientific Achievements
Books (scientific): 3
Edited books (scientific): 3
Papers (peer-reviewed papers, published in scientific journals, international, Band A journals): 33
Papers (peer-reviewed papers, published in collective volumes, international): 14
Chapters/ Entries in collective volumes: 10
Book reviews: 19
Part XII - List of publications
Books (authored)
1) L’inno nella letteratura poetica latina, prefazione di L. Gamberale, Drion 1, S. Severo, Gerni Editori, 1999, XVI + 537, ISBN 88-85077-49-8
Reviewed by: A. Minarini, “BStudLat” 30, 2000, f. 2, 681-687; C. Salemme, “Orpheus” n.s. 21, 1-2, 2000, 266-67; J. Dingel, “REL” 2000, 288-289; A. Perutelli, “RFIC” 128, 2000 [2002], f. 4, 4667469; B. Rochette, “Latomus” 61, 2002, f. 2, 487-489; V. Hunink, “Mnemosyne” 55, 2002, f. 3, 381-383; N. Devlin, “CR” 52, 1, 2002, 84-85; Michael C.J. Putnam, “Gnomon” 75, 2003, 451-453
2) Cicero and Roman Education. The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019, ISBN 978-1-107-068582 Hardback
Reviewed by: C. S. van der Berg, “BMCR” 2019.11.30; John Alison, “CR” 70.1, 2019, 88-90; M.P. Pinto, “Quaderni di Storia” 92, 2020, 277-283; K. Marciniak, “BStudLat” 50, 2020, f. 2, 782-784; C. Bishop, “Latomus” 79.2, 2020, 537-40; D. Ramirez Perez, “GJHSS-G 21 (G6), 25-8
3) Cicerone. Le Catilinarie, Introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento a cura di G. La Bua, Series Cicero. Studies on Roman Thought and its Reception, De Gruyter/Brill (under contract – submitted)
Edited books:
4) G. La Bua (ed.), Vates Operose Dierum. Studi sui Fasti di Ovidio, Testi e Studi di Cultura Classica 48, ETS Press, Pisa, 2010, pp. 272, ISBN 978-884672751-0
Reviewed by: A. De Vivo, “BStudLat” 2012, f. 1, 363-8; S.J. Heyworth, “BMCR” 2013.12.21; M. Ohrman, “CR” 62, 2, 2012, 506-508
5) F.R. Berno and G. La Bua (eds.), Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture and Politics. From Antiquity to Modern Times, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2022
6) G. La Bua, S. Miolano, C. Montesano and L. Silvano (eds), Falsum Est. Mihi Crede. Percorsi del falso letterario tra Antichità e Rinascimento, Series Ciceronianus, Editrice dell’Orso, Alessandria (under contract – in preparation)
Papers (peer-reviewed)
7) Revisioni al testo dei centoni cristiani, “Giornale Italiano di Filologia” 43, 1, 1991, 105-118
8) Esegesi virgiliana antica e poesia centonaria, “Atene e Roma” n.s. 38, 2-3, 1993, 99-107
9) Quintil. “Inst. Or.” 3, 4, 9 e la “Rhetorica ad Alexandrum”, “Giornale Italiano di Filologia” 47, 2, 1995, 271-282
10) La Laus Cornuti nella V Satira di Persio e Lucrezio De rerum natura III, 1-30, “Bollettino di Studi Latini” 27, 1, 1997, 82-101
11) A proposito di TRF inc. inc 18-19 Ribb.3 “Invigilata Lucernis” 20, 1998, 133-150
12) Elementi innici nelle orazioni ciceroniane, “Res Publica Litterarum” 21, 1998, 134-154
13) Sulla pseudo-ciceroniana Si eum P. Clodius legibus interrogasset e sull’ordine delle orazioni negli Scholia Bobiensia, “Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica” 129, 2, 2001 [2003], 161-191
14) Obscuritas e dissimulatio nella pro Tullio di Cicerone, “Rhetorica” 23, 3, 2005, 261-280
15) Diritto e retorica. Cicerone iure peritus in Seneca retore e Quintiliano, in “Ciceroniana”, Atti del XII Colloquium Tullianum, Salamanca, 7-9 ottobre 2004, Centro di Studi Ciceroniani, Roma 2006, 181-203
16) Laus deorum e strutture inniche nei Panegirici Latini di età imperiale, “Rhetorica” 27, 2, 2009, 142-158
17) Aiebat se in animo scribere (Sen. Contr. 1 praef. 18): Writing in Roman declamations, in L. Calboli Montefusco (ed.), Papers on Rhetoric X, Roma 2010, 183-199
18) Patronage and Education in Third-Century Gaul: Eumenius’ Panegyric for The Restoration of the Schools, “Journal of Late Antiquity” 3.2 (Fall), 2010, 300-315
19) Minerva Capta (Ovidio Fasti 3, 809-848), in G. La Bua (ed.), Vates Operose Dierum. Studi sui Fasti di Ovidio, Pisa 2010, 51-63
20) Nota a Calp. Sic. 1, 67s. (e Ovidio Fast. 1, 715s), “Eikasmòs” XXI, 2010, 239-246
21) Monoteismo e teologia negativa nell’innografia latina tardo-antica e nella prima innografia cristiana, “Paideia” LXV, 2010, 533-546
22) Audes / fatidicum verbis fallere velle deum? (Ov. Fast. 2, 261-2): l’ironia del logos nei Fasti di Ovidio, in M. Passalacqua, M. De Nonno, A.M. Morelli eds. Venuste Noster. Studi in onore di L. Gamberale, Spudasmata 147, Olms, Hildesheim-Zürich-New York 2012, 161-180
23) Horace’s East: Ethics and Politics, “Harvard Studies in Classical Philology” 107, 2012, 265-96
24) ‘Quo usque tandem cantherium patiemur istum?’ (Apul. Met. 3.27): Lucius, Catiline, and the ‘immorality’ of the human ass, “Classical Quarterly” 63.2, 2013, 854-59
25) ‘Mastering’ Oratory: the mock-trial in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 3.3.1-7.1, “American Journal of Philology” 134.4, 2013, 675-701
26) Cicero’s Pro Milone and the ‘Demosthenic’ Style: De Optimo Genere Oratorum 10, “Greece & Rome” 61.1, 2014, 29-37
27) Medicina consularis: Cicerone e la cura dello stato, in P. De Paolis (ed.), Modelli educativi e formazione politica in Cicerone, Atti del V Symposium Ciceronianum, Arpino 10 Maggio 2013, Cassino 2014, 29-51
28) Nihil infinitum est nisi Oceanus (Sen. suas. 1, 1): il mare nelle declamazioni latine, “Maia” 67, 2, 2015, 325-339
29) Cicerone e l’educazione nel mondo tardoantico, “Rationes Rerum” 5, 2015, 51-59
30) L’epifania mancata: l’inno alla Pontica tellus in Ovid. Pont. 3.1, “Paideia” LXX, 2015, 87-101
31) Late Ciceronian Scholarship and Virgilian Exegesis: Servius and Ps. Asconius, “Classical Quarterly” 68, 2, 2018, 667-680
32) Cicero…nec prodesse tantum sed etiam amari potest (Quint. inst. 2, 5, 19): Cicerone idoneus auctor e maestro dell’arte dell’illusone in Quintiliano e nei commentari tardo-antichi, in P. De Paolis (ed.), I commenti a Cicerone, Atti del IX Symposium Ciceronianum, Arpino 12 maggio 2017, Cassino 2018, 39-62
33) Intratextual Readings in Ovid’s Heroides, in S. Harrison-S. Frangoulidis-T.D. Papanghelis (eds.), Intratextuality and Latin Literature, Trends in Classics, Supplementary Volume 69, 2018, 243-52
34) Iucundus nominis error (Ov. Ars 3, 729): Procri rustica puella nell’Ars amatoria, “Dictynna” 15, 2018 (URL: http://journals.openedition.org/dictynna/1593 ISSN: 1765-3142)
35) Sic cecinit pro te, doctus, Minoi, Catullus ([Tib.] 3, 6, 41): voci catulliane nel ciclo di Ligdamo, “Paideia” LXXIV, Pars prior (I/II), 2019, 235-248
36) Teaching the Death of Elegy: Lygdamus-Elegies (Tib. 3.1-6), in T. Franklinos and L. Fulkerson (eds), Appendices Ovidiana, Tibulliana, Virgiliana, Oxford 2020, 131-147
37) Man of Peace? Cicero’s Last Fight for the Republic in Greek and Roman Historical ‘Fictions’, in C. Pieper and B. Van der Velden (eds.), Reading Cicero’s Final Years, Berlin-Boston 2020, 79-95
38) Osservazioni sui pseudepigrapha ciceroniani e la ‘tradizione catilinaria’: la Responsio Catilinae, “Incontri di Filologia Classica” XX (2020-2021), 299-324
39) The Poet as a Forger: Fakes and Literary Imitation in Roman Poetry, in K. Lennartz and J. Martinez (eds.), Tenue est mendacium. Rethinking Fakes and Authorship in Classical, Late Antique & Early Christian World, Barkhuis, 2021, 179-96
40) Homo Novus and Nobilis: Cicero and the Formation of the Modern Aristocracy, in Berno-La Bua (eds.), Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics. From Antiquity to the Modern Times, Berlin-Boston, De Gruyter, 2022, 103-118
41) Sen. Dial. 11.9.4-8: Marcello, il felix exul di Seneca e la reprehensio Ciceronis nella prima età imperiale, “Athenaeum” 110/1, 2022, 92-111.
42) Teaching Cicero through the scholia, in Dennis Pausch and Christoph Pieper (eds.), The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches. Contexts and Perspectives, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2023, 22-40
43) Intertextuality, parody, and immortality of poetry: Petronius and Ovid, in J. Farrell-D. Nelis-A. Schiesaro-J. Miller (eds.), Ovid, Death and Transfiguration, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2023, 351-66
44) Il linguaggio della satira nell’epistolario pliniano, “Paideia” LVXXII 2022, 157-173
45) Dal ‘vero’ al ‘falso’ Catilina: retorica e politica nei pseudepigrapha ciceroniani, in A. Comboni and S. La Barbera (eds.), Le vie del falso, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2023, 77-94
46) Silvas publicas depopulatus erat (Cic. Mil.26): natura ‘violata’, politica e invettiva nella strategia retorica ciceroniana, “Ciceroniana on line” VII.2, 2023, 335-50
47) Deceptive Oratory. Cicero in Sinon’s Speech (Verg. Aen. 2.57-198), “Classical Philology” 120.1. 2025, 104-17
48) Forging Catiline: Portraits of the Arch-Conspirator in Medieval and Early Modern Pseudepigrapha, in R. Menmuir (ed.), Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Medieval Institute Publications, Berlin-Boston, De Gruyter, 2025, 75-94
49) Plinio il Giovane e la creazione di una moderna idea di luxuria, “Maia” 77. 1, 2025, 159-70
50) Forging the enemy: fakeness, invective and politics in the Panegyrici Latini and the Historia Augusta, “Illinois Classical Studies” 50.1, 2025, 38-56
51) Cattivi e buoni oratori, cattive e buone abitudini: la corretta eloquenza e la ricerca del consenso nell’epistolario di Plinio il Giovane, “Rationes Rerum” 25, 2025, 37-49
52) Tra verità e finzione: la dottrina dell’insinuatio dal De inventione di Cicerone al Medioevo latino, “Ciceroniana on line” IX.1, 2025, 71-90
53) Playing down love-poetry: Ovid and Persius’ construction of the self, in S. Tzounakas and A. Magnavacca (eds.), Generic Interfaces in Persius (forthcoming)
54) Virtus, sapientia e vita secondo natura nel progetto politico ciceroniano, in G. Vogt Spira (ed.), Secundum naturam vivere. Ein antikes Konzept und seine Transformationen, Lumina, Berlin/Boston (forthcoming)
55) Teaching History and Celebrating the Princeps: The Rhetoric of Landscape in the Panegyrici Latini, in G. Baldo, A. Cucchiarelli, S. Harrison, B. Pieri (eds), Representing Roman Landscape: From the Age of Augustus to Late Antiquity, “Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes”, de Gruyter (forthcoming)
56) Riscrivere il classico nel Rinascimento: la pseudo-ciceroniana Oratio adversus Valerium, in G. La Bua, S. Miolano, C. Montesano and L. Silvano (eds), Falsum Est. Mihi Crede. Percorsi del falso letterario tra Antichità e Rinascimento, Series Ciceronianus, Editrice dell’Orso, Alessandria (forthcoming)
Chapters/Entries in Collaborative Works:
57) Enciclopedia Oraziana, ed. Scevola Mariotti, Roma, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, 2, 1997:
Entries:
Inno, 8.62-68;
Acrisio, 10. 296-297;
Castalia, 10. 333-334;
Danae, 10. 347-348;
Dirce, 10. 357-358;
Peleo, 10. 461;
Penteo, 10. 463-464;
Pipleide/Piplea, 10. 464;
Pirra, 10. 465;
Sileno, 10. 486-487
Book reviews:
58) Bibliographie analytique de la prière grecque et romaine (1898-1998), par les membres du C.A.R.R.A. (Centre d’Analyse des Rhétoriques Religieuses de l’Antiquité), sous la direction de G. Freyburger et L. Pernot (Recherches sur les Rhétoriques Religieuses, 1), Turnhout, Brepols 2000, pp. 361, in: “RFIC” 128, fasc. 3, 2000, 381-382
59) Cicerone Prospettiva 2000, Atti del I Symposium Ciceronianum Arpinas, Arpino 5 maggio 2000, a cura di E. Narducci, Le Monnier, Firenze 2001, in: “RFIC”, 130, 3, 2002 [2005], 379-380
60) Interpretare Cicerone. Percorsi della critica contemporanea, Atti del II Symposium Ciceronianum Arpinas, Arpino 18 maggio 2001, a cura di E, Narducci, Le Monnier, Firenze 2002, in: “RFIC”, 130, 4, 2002 [2005], 505-506
61) Corpus de prières grecques et romaines. Textes réunis, traduits et commentés par F. Chapot et B. Laurot, Recherches sur les Rhétoriques Religieuses, 2, Turnhout, Brepols 2001, in: “RFIC”, 134, 2006, 126-127
62) Eduard Norden, Agnostos Theos. Dio Ignoto. Ricerche sulla storia della forma del discorso religioso, a cura di Chiara Ombretta Tommasi Moreschini, Morcelliana, Brescia 2002, in: “RFIC”, 133, 2005, 342-347
63) Christian Stock (ed.), Sergius (Ps.Cassiodorus) Commentarium de Oratione et de Octo Partibus Orationis Artis Secundae Donati, K. G. Saur, München-Leipzig 2005, in: “BMCR” 2005. 09. 55
64) Scott McGill, Virgil Recomposed. The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005, in: “BMCR” 2006.03.31
65) Ingo Gildenhard, Paideia Romana. Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations, Cambridge Classica Journal. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. Supplementary Volume 30, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, in: “BMCR” 2008.03.28
66) Antonella Tedeschi, Lezione di buon governo per un dittatore. Cicerone, Pro Marcello: saggio di commento, Scrinia 24, Bari, Edipuglia 2005, in: “RFIC” 136, 2008, 1, 84-91
67) John F. Miller, Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, in: “Gnomon” 84.1, 2012, 20-25
68) S. Grazzini (a cura di), Scholia in Iuvenalem recentiora secundum recensiones et tomus I (satt. 1-6), Edizioni della Normale, Pisa 2011, in: “Gnomon” 86.7, 2014, 611-615
69) Nazario. Panegirico in onore di Costantino, a cura di Carmela Laudani, Biblioteca della tradizione classica 12, Cacucci Editore, Bari, 2014, in: “Athenaeum” 107, 2019, 664-666
70) Hosidius Geta Medea. Text, Translation and Commentary (Italian with English Summaries), edited by Maria Teresa Galli, Vertumnus Bd. 10, Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, in: “Gnomon” 92, 4, 2020, 366-370
71) Caroline Bishop, Cicero, Greek Learning and the Making of a Classic, Oxford 2019, in: “Latomus” 79/4, 2020, 1150-1152.
72) L. Graverini-L. Nicolini (eds.), Apuleio. Metamorfosi. Libri I-III, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, Milano 2020, in: “Athenaeum” 111/1, 2023, 346-49
73) B. Delignon, La morale de l’amour dans les Odes d’Horace. Poésie, philosophie et politique, Sorbonne Université Presses, Paris 2019; in “Gnomon” 94.6, 2022, 498-501.
74) C. Rosillo-López, Political Conversations in Republican Rome, Oxford 2022: in “Classical Review” 2023, 73.1, 231-33
75) D.H. Berry, Cicero. Catilinarians, Oxford 2020: in “Bollettino di Studi Latini” 52.2, 2022, 756-59
76) Nathan Gilbert, Margaret Graver and Sean McConnell (eds.), Power and Persuasion in Cicero’s Philosophy, Cambridge 2023: in “Classical Review” 74.2, 2024, 462-64