Vincenzo Ortoleva Explained

Vincenzo Ortoleva (23 May 1965, Catania, Italy) is an Italian classical philologist.

Ortoleva studied from 1983 to 1988 Classical Philology at University of Catania. In 1996 he took his PhD with the dissertation "La tradizione manoscritta della Mulomedicina di Publio Vegezio Renato". After his teach licence in 2003, he became in 2005 Full Professor of Classical Philology at University of Catania. His particular fields of research are Greek and Latin literature, text tradition, textual criticism and history of classical scholarship. He has also discovered several manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors: for instance an anonymous Greek translation of the Disticha Catonis in the Cod. Monacensis Gr. 551[1] and unpublished fragments of the Latin writer Pelagonius in Cod. Verona, Biblioteca civica, 658.[2]

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  1. Una traduzione greca inedita dei Disticha Catonis, in Sileno. Rivista di sudi classici e cristiani, 16, 1990, pp. 287–300; fol. 117r
  2. Un nuovo testimone frammentario di Pelagonio e alcune considerazioni sulla tradizione manoscritta e sul testo dell'Ars ueterinaria, in Res Publica Litterarum 21, 1998, pp. 13-44. (http://www.ortoleva.altervista.org/1998.RPL.pdf; PDF; 3,2 MB).
  3. Review: Winfried Bühler in Gnomon,, 69, 1997, pp. 198–204. (JSTOR Stable URL).
  4. Review: Jacques Schamps in Latomus,, 55,2,pp. 454–456. (JSTOR Stable URL).
  5. Review: M. D. Reeve in The Classical Review,, N.S. 47, 1997, pp. 317–320. (JSTOR Stable URL).
  6. In database ICCU