Ivano Dionigi (born February 20, 1948, in

Pesaro Pesaro (; ) is a (municipality) in the Italy, Italian region of Marche, capital of the province of Pesaro and Urbino, on the Adriatic Sea. According to the 2011 census, its population was 95,011, making it the second most populous city in the ...

) is an Italian lecturer and rector. He is a professor of Latin literature, he was Rector of the Alma Mater -

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from 2009 to 2015; he is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna. On 10 November 2012 he was nominated by

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as president of the newly formed Pontifical Academy for Latin.

Academic career

After graduating from the 'Terenzio Mamiani' high school in

, he graduated in classical literature at the

. At the same University he trained as a researcher and as a lecturer in 1990. In 1999 he became founder and director of the La Permanenza del Classico Study Center. On 27 May 2009 he was elected Rector of the

, with 1282 preferences. Over the years his studies have focused mainly on

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and Seneca, on the relationship between

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and Pagans. He has also made over a hundred publications. He is a Member of the Italian Communist Party, he was part of the Bologna City Council.

Publications

* ''Due interpretazioni unilaterali di Lucrezio'', in ''"Studi Urbinati"'', 1973. * L. Anneo Seneca, ''De otio''. Testo e apparato critico con Introduzione, Versione e Commento a cura di I. Dionigi, Brescia 1983 * ''Lucrezio. Le parole e le cose'', Bologna 1988 * Commento a T. Lucrezio Caro, ''La natura delle cose'', Milano 1990. * ''Verba et res, morfosintassi e lessico del latino'' (con E. Riganti e L. Morisi), Bari 1997. * ''Necessità dei classici'' in AA.VV., ''Di fronte ai classici'', Milano 2002.

References

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