Giovan Battista D’Alessio (Sapienza Università di Roma), Principal Investigator
Luigi Battezzato (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Associate Investigator
Cristina Pepe (Università degli Studi della Campania “L. Vanvitelli”), Associate Investigator
Giulio Massimilla (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”)
Daniela Milo (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”)
Serena Cannavale (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”)
Mario Regali (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”)
Raffaele Bernini (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Marco Catrambone (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Yasmine Granitto (Università degli Studi della Campania “L. Vanvitelli”)
Mariangela Giudice (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)

Post-Doc research fellows

Stefano Fanucchi is post-doctoral researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore. He obtained a PhD in Classics at the same University. He is currently working on an edition with commentary of Pindar’s Nemean 10. His main research interests are Greek lyric poetry (focusing especially on Pindar and Bacchylides), Greek drama, and Greek metre. Within the PRIN “Female voices”, he is dealing with the composition of speeches and songs delivered by female characters in Attic drama. In particular, he is focusing on female choruses and their interaction with male voices, taking into account both the relationship with lyric tradition (with particular attention to Sophocles’ Trachiniae and Aristophanes’ Lysistrata) and the reworking of specific patterns, such as self-referentiality and choral projection. He is also working on specific topics in choral characterization, such as gaze and desire in Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis. Beside drama, he also deals with Telesilla’s lyric poetry as epichoric song compared with panhellenic poetry composed by male authors.

Tiziano Presutti is post-doctoral researcher at the University of Naples Federico II. His primary research interest lies in archaic and lyric poetry, with a particular focus on the textual reconstruction and interpretation of Pindar’s odes. He is currently accomplishing a critical edition and commentary of Pindaric Maiden-songs (Partheneia). The research unit of the PRIN “Female Voices” to which he belongs is dedicated to the study of the works of Praxilla of Sicyon and Telesilla of Argos, which are to be published in an edition with an introduction and commentary. In order to comprehensively reconstruct the work of these two often neglected female authors, the research will involve not only the literary aspects of their works, but also cultic contexts and historical interpretation. The aim is to relocate these two figures as accurately as possible within their historical and cultural framework, but also to elucidate the manner in which their poetry was able to negotiate with the social and political milieu of their cities.

Rita Saviano worked as post-doctoral researcher at the University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, where in 2023 she obtained a PhD in History and Transmission of Cultural Heritage, with a thesis on the Renaissance library of San Giovanni a Carbonara in Naples. She is Subject expert in Classical Philology and Medieval History. Her studies mainly concern the reception of texts of Greek and Latin Antiquity in Humanistic culture, with a particular focus on Southern Italy. Within the PRIN “Female voices”, she is working on the reception of Sappho and the circulation of her poetry in the 15^th and 16^th centuries. A first purpose of the study is to investigate the rediscovery of the Ovidian (or ps.-Ovidian) Epistula Sapphus Phaoni (Heroides, XV) in the second decade of 15^th century, when the poem was considered as a Latin translation of an original Greek elegy composed by Sappho. The research also aims to analyze the circulation of the fragments of Sapphic poetry in the 16^th century, until the editio princeps of the nine Poetae lyrici Graeci printed by Estienne in 1560, in order to outline how the perception of Sappho’s poetic voice changed due to these two turning points of the textual transmission.

Vittoria Vairo is post-doctoral researcher at the University of Naples Federico II. In 2023 she obtained a PhD in Greek Philology at the same University. She is currently working on a critical edition with commentary of Theocritus’ Idyll 16, which was the topic of her doctoral research too. She is Subject expert (Cultrice della materia) in Greek Language and Literature, as well as in History of Greek Language. Her main interests of research are Hellenistic poetry (focusing in particular on encomiastic works), didactic poetry, literary papyrology and the reception of Greek works during the Renaissance. Within the project Female voices, she is dealing with the male-authored characterization of the female voice in Hellenistic poetry. In particular, she is studying the representation of the female lamentation for love in the Hellenistic works (e.g. the Fragmentum Grenfellianum or the so-called Helenae querimonia), as well as the language, motifs and gender-roles in the Hellenistic erotic epigram.