Francesco Citti
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| Membership Number: | 6352 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/francesco.citti/cv-en |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3167-8888 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 11.2021 - 10.2023 Dean of the Bologna University Library
- 5.2015 - 5.2021 Chair of the Deparment of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, Univ. of Bologna
- 2014 - now Full professor of Latin, Univ. of Bologna
- 2013 - 2015 Vice-Director of PhD School in “Culture letterarie e filologiche”
- 2007 - 2012 Member of International PhD School in "Civiltà dell'Umanesimo e del Rinascimento", Università di Firenze, Università di Bologna
- 2007 - now Director of the “Greek and Latin Summer School”, Univ. of Bologna
- 2001 - 2014 Associate professor of Latin, Univ. of Bologna (2001-2011: campus of Ravenna)
- 1995 - 2001 Lecturer of Latin, Univ. of Bologna
- 1994 - 1995 Visiting researcher at the Seminar für Klassische Philologie, Univ. Göttingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Relationships between ancient scientific tradition (particularly Lucretius and Seneca) and modern science
- Rhetoric and Latin declamation (esp. Seneca the Elder)
- Latin philosophical literature (esp. Lucretius, Horace and Seneca)
- Reception of the Classics in modern and contemporary literature
Honours and Awards
- Membership in Academies/Research Centers
- 2021 - now member of the Committee for the edition of the Italian "Testi di Lingua"
- 2017 - now member of the Committee for the “Edizione Nazionale delle Opere Giovanni Pascoli”
- 2012 - 2018 member of the Scientific Board of the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII, Bologna
- 2011 - now fellow ("socio corrispondente") of the Accademia Pascoliana, San Mauro
- Funded Research Programs (selection of the more recent ones)
- 2020 Centro di studi Liviani, Università di Padova, funding for a research grant on the Landscape in late Augustan literature
- 2019 Italian Ministry of Research and University, member of the Bologna Unit of the FISR Project "Opere perdute e opere anonime nella tradizione latina dalla tarda antichità alla prima età moderna (sec. III-XV)"
- 2017 Italian Ministry of Research and University, as the head of the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies he applied for and obtained for the Department the Excellence grant for the years 2018-2022
- 2017 Italian Ministry of Research and University, member of the Bologna Unit of the PRIN Project "Natura e paesaggio italici nella cultura romana da Augusto a Traiano" (triennial; Bologna supervisor: A. Ziosi)
- 2015 Italian Ministry of Education, Research and University, Bologna Unit's coordinator of the PRIN Project "Centro e periferia nella letteratura latina di Roma imperiale" (triennal)
- 2009 : Italian Ministry of Education, Research and University, member of the Bologna Unit: PRIN Project "Poesia e filosofia a Roma (I a C. - I d.C.). Saggi di commento e studi sulla fortuna" (biennial; Bologna supervisor: I. Dionigi)
- 2008 Europaeum Consortium: grant for the organization of the colloquium: Metamorphosis between Science and Literature - Europaeυm Seventh Classics Colloquium, Bologna-Ravenna 2008
