Pittà, Antonino

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Antonino Pittà (Campobasso, 1988) is a Researcher in Latin language and literature at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where he teaches Latin literature and Modern and contemporary Latin. He graduated at the University of Pisa; at the same time, he attended the Corso ordinario at the Scuola Normale Superiore, where he obtained the Diploma di licenza and the Perfezionamento (= PhD) in Latin philology. His main research interests concern late-Republican Antiquarianism, Latin poetry of the Augustan and imperial age (and their Greek models), Roman technical prose, the reception of classical texts in the Middle Age and in the Renaissance. He is author of two critical editions, with a philological and historical commentary, on Varro’s fragmentary work De vita populi Romani and on the political poems in Statius’ Silvae, Book I; the latter was awarded the first prize at the LXXIV Certamen Capitolinum (2022). He is member of research units related to national and international scientific projects, including the PRIN “Natura e paesaggio italici nella cultura romana da Augusto a Traiano” (since 2017) and the ERC founded project “Ordering, Constructing, Empowering: Fragments of the Roman Republican Antiquarians” (since 2020). In 2024 he was also awarded the “Antonio Feltrinelli” Prize for Young Scholars, for the category of Philology and Linguistics.