Gianpiero Rosati

GIANPIERO ROSATI is Emeritus Professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, where he has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. He works on Augustan poetry, in particular on Ovid (with essays, editions and commentaries), the literature of the Neronian and Flavian ages, and Latin narrative. His early book Narciso e Pigmalione. Illusione e spettacolo nelle Metamorfosi di Ovidio (1983; English translation 2021) has influenced more recent developments of Ovidian...See more

GIANPIERO ROSATI is Emeritus Professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, where he has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. He works on Augustan poetry, in particular on Ovid (with essays, editions and commentaries), the literature of the Neronian and Flavian ages, and Latin narrative. His early book Narciso e Pigmalione. Illusione e spettacolo nelle Metamorfosi di Ovidio (1983; English translation 2021) has influenced more recent developments of Ovidian criticism, such as the emphasis on illusion and the Roman culture of spectacle and the relationship between art, landscape, and text. He is also a leading scholar of the Heroides, having published various studies and a commentary on the letters of Hero and Leander (1997). He has written on all the most important Augustan poets (and some minors), on Petronius and on Apuleius. His more recent research concerns the poetry of Statius, particularly the poetics of occasional lyric in the Silvae. He is currently working on a commentary on Statius' Silvae in the Fondazione Valla series. See less