Alessandro Barchiesi (born 1955) is an Italian classicist. A specialist on Latin poetry, he is best known for his work on

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), Suetonius, Life of Horace commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). Th ...

Vergil Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the ''Eclogues'' ...

and

Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he i ...

. Having spent the majority of his career in Italy and the United States, he has served as a professor of

Classics Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

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since 2016.

Career

Until 1987, Barchiesi was based at the

Scuola Normale di Pisa The Scuola Normale Superiore (commonly known in Italy as "la Normale") is a public university in Pisa and Florence, Tuscany, Italy, currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students. Together with the University of Pi ...

, first as a student of Gian Biagio Conte and later as research fellow. He then became an associate professor at the

University of Milan The University of Milan (; ), officially abbreviated as UNIMI, or colloquially referred to as La Statale ("the State niversity), is a public university, public research university in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest universities in Eu ...

in 1987. In 1990, he was appointed to a tenured position at the

University of Verona The University of Verona () is a university located in Verona, Italy. It was founded in 1982 and is organized in 12 Departments. The Italian business newspaper ''Il Sole 24 Ore'' ranked it as the best non-private university in Italy in 2014, 2015 ...

which he held for ten years. In 2000, Barchiesi moved to a professorship at the

University of Siena The University of Siena (, abbreviation: UNISI), located in Siena, Tuscany, holds the distinction of being Italy's first publicly funded university as well as one of the oldest, originally established as ''Studium Senese'' in 1240. As of 2022, it ...

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. He held this position in parallel with a ''Spogli Professorship'' at the

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. Since 2016, he works as a professor of Classics at

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. In addition to the above appointments, he has had visiting positions at various institutions, including

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and

Princeton Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the Unit ...

. In 2010–11, he served in the prestigious role of

Sather Professor of Classical Literature The Jane K. Sather Professorship of Classical Literature is an endowed chair for the study of classics at the University of California, Berkeley. Established in 1914 after a donation by Jane K. Sather, widow of the Norwegian-American banker Ped ...

at the

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. He is an editor, with Robert Fowler,

Lucia Prauscello Lucia Prauscello is a Classicist who works on Greek Philology and Literature. She is a professor at the University of Oxford. Education Prauscello completed her undergraduate degree at Pisa University in 1999, followed by a postgraduate degre ...

and Nigel Wilson, of the serie
Sozomena
which is published for the Herculaneum Society by

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Selected publications

* ''Le Fenicie'', Venice, 1988. * ''The poet and the prince: Ovid and Augustan discourse'', Berkeley, 1997 * ''Ovidian transformations: essays on the Metamorphoses and its reception'', ed. with P. Hardie and S. Hinds, Cambridge, 1999 * ''Ovidio: Metamorfosi 1 (Libri I-II)'', Milan, 2005 * ''Ovidio: Metamorfosi 2 (Libri III-IV)'', Milan, 2007 * ''Homeric effects in Vergil’s narrative'', Princeton, 2015

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barchiesi, Alessandro Italian philologists 1955 births Living people Italian Latinists Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa alumni