GIUSEPPE LA BUA
Professore Associato di Lingua e Letteratura Latina
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità
“Sapienza” Università di Roma
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5
I- 00185 Roma
email: giuseppe.labua@uniroma1.it
Formazione
1995 Ph.D. Classics (Università di Pisa)
1989 Laurea in Lettere Classiche (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Posizioni accademiche
2023- Direttore Teaching and Learning Center Sapienza – Formazione Insegnanti Classi di
Concorso A011 e A013
2022- Abilitazione Scientifica Professore di Prima Fascia Filologia Classica
2019-2025 Junior Research Fellow Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SSAS), Sapienza Univerità
di Roma
2018- Abilitazione Scientifica Professore di Prima Fascia Lingua e Letteratura Latina
2012- Professore Associato di Lingua e Letteratura Latina, Sapienza Università di Roma,
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità
2005-2012 Ricercatore di Lingua e Letteratura Latina, Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento
di Scienze dell’Antichità
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- Membro del Collegio di Dottorato di Ricerca in Filologia e Storia del Mondo Antico
Sapienza Università di Roma
1995-2004 Docente di ruolo di Greco e Latino presso il Liceo Classico
1997-2001 Docente a contratto (Letteratura Latina), LUMSA, Università di Roma
1994-1997 Docente a contratto (Storia Romna), LUMSA, Università di Roma
1994-2004 Cultore della materia Lingua e Letteratura Latina, Sapienza Università di Roma
Insegnamenti e corsi
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
Corsi tenuti come Visiting Professor
1) Roman culture: Masterpieces of Roman Literature, undergraduate and graduate course, 96
hours, Summer Term 2010 (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Altri corsi
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)
Conferenze (come invited speaker)
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
Conferenze e convegni internazionali
1) Diritto e retorica. Cicerone iure peritus in Seneca retore e Quintiliano, paper delivered at the 12 th
Colloquium Tullianum, “Centro di Studi Ciceroniani”, Salamanca, October 7 th -9 th , 2004
2) La laus deorum nei panegirici latini di età imperiale, paper delivered at the 16 th Biennial
Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR), Strasbourg, July 24 th -
28 th 2007
3) The Restoration of the Schools of Autun: Rhetoric and Education in Third-Century Gaul, paper
delivered at APA 140 th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, January 8 th -11 th , 2009
4) Writing in Roman Declamations, paper delivered at 17 th Biennial Conference of the International
Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR), Montreal, July 20 th - 26 th , 2009
5) Orazio e l’Oriente tra politica e letteratura, paper delivered at the International Conference
“Orientalismo Romano”, Rome, November 19 th -21 st , 2009
6) Medicina consularis: Cicerone e la cura dello stato, paper delivered at the V Symposium
Ciceronianum Arpinas, Arpino, May 10 th , 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 23 rd- 24 th , 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 9 th ,2014
9) Intertestualità, parodia e immortalità della poesia: Petronio e Ovidio, paper delivered at the
International Conference “Ovid: Death and Transfiguration”, Rome, March 7 th -9 th , 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 12 th , 2017
11) Intratextual Readings in Ovid’s Heroides’, paper delivered at 11 th Trends in Classics
Conference ‘Intratextuality and Roman Literature’, Thessaloniki, May 25 th -27 th , 2017
12) Cicero’s Last Fight for the Republic in Greek and Roman Historians, paper delivered at 11 th
Celtic Classics Conference, University of St. Andrews, 11 th -14 th 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, 6 th -8 th , 2018
14) Novitas e nobilitas nella tradizione biografica dell’Arpinate, paper delivered at the International
Conference “Ritratti di Cicerone-Portraying Cicero’, Rome, May, 15 th -17 th , 2019
15) Teaching Cicero through the Scholia, Leiden online workshop, 30 th June 2020/28 th 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’, 7 th 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
32) Exemplary stories: fictionality and paradoxography in Pliny the Younger, paper delivered at the
Conference Roman Fake News, Netherland Institute Athens, 26 January 2026
Organizzazione di conferenze internazionali
2008 Conferenza ‘Vates Operose Dierum’ (Studi sui Fasti di Ovidio) – Sapienza University of
Rome (8 Maggio, 2008)
2019 International Conference ‘Portraying Cicero/Ritratti di Cicerone – Sapienza University of
Rome (Roma, 17-19 Maggio, 2019)
2024 International Conference ‘Crafting a Lie. Forgeries in the Classical Tradition’ – Sapienza
University of Rome (8-10 Maggio, 2024)
2024 Panel ‘Forging Authorship’ at the CCC (Celtic Conference), held in Cardiff on July 9-12,
2024
2025 International Conference ‘Falsum Est. Mihi Crede’ (Sapienza Roma, 4 Giugno, 2025)
Fellowships, affiliazioni e riconoscimenti
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 Assegno di Ricerca, Sapienza Università di Roma
2005 Tytus Margo Fellow and Visiting Scholar (Spring Term), University of Cincinnati,
Department of Classics
2001-2002 Assegno di Ricerca, Sapienza Università di Roma
2002 Premio “Latinarum Litterarum Linguaeque Certamen Capitolinum II” (sponsorizzato
dall’Istituto di Studi Romani), per il libro “L’inno nella letteratura poetica latina”
2018- Membro della SIAC (Societé Internationale des Amis de Cicéron)
2020- Membro del Network for Oratory and Politics, University of Birmingham
2024- Membro della International Society of Ovidian Studies
2020- Member del Comitato Scientifico del Centro di Studi Ciceroniani di Arpino (Centro di Studi
Umanistici M. Tullio Cicerone)
2013- Membro del Comitato Editoriale della Rivista Rationes Rerum. Rivista di Filologia e Storia
2018- Membro del Comitato Editoriale e Scientifico della Collana ‘Il carro di Medea’ (Collana
Editoriale Scientifica, Deinotera Editrice, ISSN 2724-234X)
2025- Membro del Comitato Editoriale e Scientifico della Collana ‘Minima Philologica’ (Collana
Editoriale Scientifca, Dell’Orso Editore)
2025- Membro del Comitato Editoriale e Scientifico della rivista internazionale ‘FALSUM’
Servizi Accademici e Professionali
2025 Presidente della Commissione per l’accesso al Dottorato di Ricerca Università di Pisa
(Classics and Ancient History Program)
2025 Membro della Commissione per l’accesso al Dottorato di Ricerca Sapienza Roma (Classics
and Ancient History Program)
2022- Direttore del Teaching and Learning Centre Sapienza, Formazione Insegnanti, Classi A011 e
A013
2019-2025 Vice-Coordinatore della Classe di Scienze Umanistiche presso la Scuola Superiore di
Studi Avanzati (SSAS), Sapienza, and Presidente del Comitato di Valutazione
2022 Membro della Commissione per la Valutazione e Reclutamento di tenure-track researchers
and professori of Letteratura Latina (Sapienza)
2019 Membro della Commissione per l’accesso al Dottorato di Ricerca (Classics and Ancient
History Program)
2015- Presidente della Commissione per il Percorso di Eccellenza Lettere Classiche (Sapienza)
2005- Membro del Collegio di Dottorato (Classics and Ancient History Program), Sapienza
Referee per le riviste internazionali: Dictynna, Museum Helveticum, Rationes Rerum, Bollettino di
Studi Latini, Maia, Seneca, Mnemosyne, Paideia, Latomus, Rheinisches Museum, Acta Conventus
Neolatini
Funding Information [come PI-Principal investigator o I-Investigator]
Direzione e Partecipazione in Gruppi di Ricerca e Attività Scientifiche di interesse nazionale e
internazionale
2023– Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Project ‘Breaking the Silence. Exploring
Human-Animal Interactions in the Classical World’, funded by Sapienza University of Rome, grant
value 30000
2022- PI (Principal Investigator) del Gruppo di Ricerca Sapienza PRIN ‘FALSUM’ (national
project coordinated by Sandro La Barbera of the University of Trento); 2022 BE7TAT_004; SH5;
24 months; grant value 24206
2022- Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Group University Project (Partenariato
Esteso – Spoke 5) ‘Sacred Landscape along the river Aniene and the Tiburtina Way: archaeological
and literary contexts’
2022- Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Group University Project ‘From philosophia
to sapientia. Greek and Latin Philosophical Language’, funded by Sapienza University of Rome, grant value 10000
2022- Membro del Research Group ‘Falsarios. Falsa et Vera Historia’, coordinated by Javier
Martinez of the University of Oviedo
2021- 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
2020-2024 Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Group University Project ‘Luxuria: A
Romans’ cardinal sin (I-II centuries CE)’, funded by Sapienza University of Rome, grant value
50000
2019- Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al 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- Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Group University Project ‘AQUA. Antiche
questioni vitali sull’acqua’, funded by Sapienza University of Rome, grant value 10000
2017- Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al 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- Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Group PRIN ‘Nature and Italian landscape
in Roman culture from August to Trajan’ (2017NWWA58_001; SH5; 36 months; from 20.01.2020)
2016- Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al 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 Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Group PRIN ‘Center and periphery in
imperial Latin literature’ (CYTKLZ_010; SH5; 36 months; from 05.02.2017) (I)
2015 Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Group University Project ‘Public and
Domestic Life in the Roman Forum’ (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2014 Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Group University Project ‘Texts and material
supports of texts in antiquity’ (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2013 Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Group University Project ‘Schools in late
antiquity; books, texts, history and society in the Mediterranean’ (funded by Sapienza University of
Rome)
2010 Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Group University Project ‘Literature,
translation and school in late antiquity’ (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2009 Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al 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 Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Group University Project ‘Exemplary
texts in the curriculum in late antiquity’ (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2006-2007 Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Group University Project ‘Teaching
Latin in late antiquity’ (funded by Sapienza University of Rome)
2005-2006 Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Group University Project ‘Priscianus’
De accentibus’ (Sapienza)
2005 Partecipazione come I (Investigator) al Research Group University Project ‘Philology,
language and grammatical studies in late antiquity’ (Sapienza)
Interessi scientifici
Oratoria e retorica
Poesia augustea e Ovidio
Critica testuale
Cicerone
Religione, diritto e letteratura
Storia della ricezione dei testi
Falsi letterari
Storia dell’educazione nel mondo antico
Pubblicazioni
Monografie scientifiche
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)
Volumi editi:
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
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