Personal Biography
I studied for a BA and MA in Classics at the University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy), and, after being a visiting student at the University of Cambridge, I earned a PhD at the University of Parma (Italy) with a thesis on literary decorum in Virgil in 2018. I then developed an interest in Classical Reception and moved to Oxford, where I completed a DPhil at Lady Margaret Hall in 2022 and joined Corpus Christi the same year as a Stipendiary Lecturer in Latin.
Research and Teaching
My research interests are Latin epic poetry, Roman comedy, their Late Medieval and Renaissance reception, Neo-Latin language and literature. The interaction between Roman and Greek authors and their impact on successive ages represent a central part of my work. My DPhil thesis analysed the influence of the ancient Latin epic tradition on Girolamo Vida’s Christiad (1535), a Neo-Latin epic poem based on the Gospel.
I teach tutorials on different aspects of Latin language and literature for students reading Classics, Classics and English, Classical Archeology and Ancient History.
Publications
Cianciosi, S. (forthcoming), "A new potential source for Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini's De liberorum educatione (1450): Francesco Filelfo's Latin Translation of Plutarch's Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata (1437)", Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
Cianciosi, S. (forthcoming), "A Promise is a Promise. Oaths and a Tragic Precedent in Terence’s Hecyra", Studi italiani di filologia classica
Cianciosi S. (forthcoming), "Dawn, Mortals and Immortals in the Aeneid", Mnemosyne
Cianciosi S. (2023), "Aeneas’ Betrayal of Troy and the Aeneid”, Latomus 82.1, pp. 16-30
Cianciosi S. (2022), "The Presence of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura in Girolamo Vida's Christiad", Classical World 116, pp. 23-49
Baldi D., Cianciosi S. (2020), Il praeceptor e le antiche biblioteche: il De bibliothecis deperditis ac noviter instructis di Michael Neander, saggio introduttivo e commento di D. Baldi, traduzione di S. Cianciosi, Roma: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche