Professor Gian Biagio Conte FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2014
- Subjects
- Classics
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Summary
Born in 1941, in La Spezia, Italy, Conte completed his studies in Classical Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, where he was influenced by scholars such as Arnaldo Momigliano, Sebastiano Timpanaro and Antonio La Penna. He also studied in Munich with Friedrich Klingner and in Paris. The journal MD - Materiali e Discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici was founded by him in 1978, of which he is still the editor.
Current post
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Professor of Latin Literature Emeritus
Past appointments
University of California, Berkeley Sather Professor
2015 - 2015
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Professor of Latin Philology
2001 - 2012
University of Pisa Professor of Latin Literature
1976 - 2010
University of Siena Associated Professor of Latin Literature
1971 - 1975
Publications
Critical Notes on Vergil. Editing the Teubner Text of the "Georgics" and "Aeneid"
Gian Biagio Conte - Published in 2016 by De Gruyter
The Poetry of Pathos. Studies in Virgilian Epic
Gian Biagio Conte and S. J. Harrison - Published in 2007 by Oxford University Press
The Hidden Author. An Interpretation of Petronius's Satyricon
Gian Biagio Conte - Published in 1996 by University of California Press
The Rhetoric of Imitation. Genre and Poetic Memory in Virgil and Other Latin Poets
Gian Biagio Conte - Published in 1986 by Cornell University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Tim Whitmarsh FBA
Ancient Mediterranean literature, culture and thought; Greek literature, especially of the Roman Empire; cultural contacts in the ancient world; ancient religion and scepticism; literary and cultural theory
Professor Ineke Sluiter FBA
Classics, in particular: ancient and medieval ideas on language; the use of value terms in public debate; cognitive approaches to Greek literature; innovation processes in antiquity, in particular their 'anchoring'
Professor Caroline Humfress FBA
Late Antique and Early Medieval history; Christianity and Roman law; comparative histories of law; analysing historical questions in dialogue with current legal, anthropological and sociological research
