Francesco LUPI

I trained at the University of Verona, where, after graduating in Greek Literature, I obtained a PhD in Literature and Philology (2010) under the supervision of Professor Guido Avezzù.

Subsequently, I have held research positions both in Italy and abroad: from 2013 to 2015 I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, then, between 2016 and 2023, I held research fellowships as “Assegnista di Ricerca” – first in Greek Language and Literature, then in Classical Philology – at the University of Verona. I have also conducted research abroad in other capacities: I worked at the Bijzondere collecties of the Universiteitsbibliotheek in Leiden, first as a Scaliger Fellow (2013), then as the recipient of a CooperInt grant from the University of Verona (2019); later, I was at the University of Cincinnati as a Tytus Margo Summer Residency Fellow (2017).

I have taught Classics abroad and in Italy. In Durban, I have tutored and taught at various levels (BA, Honours, MA) and on topics such as Greek language and literature, Classical Greek and Roman civilisations, and research methodology. Between 2018 and 2024, I taught many courses at the University of Verona (History of the Classical Tradition, Greek Language, Greek Literature, Late Antique Literature and Philology, and, most recently, a course on the teaching of Greek as part of the initial training of secondary school teachers).

I have presented papers at international conferences and held seminars in Italy (Bari, Pisa, Rome, Verona), in South Africa (Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Pretoria), and in Canada (Montreal). I have contributed, together with Francesco Ginelli, as panel organiser to two editions of the “Celtic Conference in Classics”, in Montreal (2017) and Saint Andrews (2018). In 2023, together with Francesca Coppola and Cristiano Ragni, I organised the international conference “In the Margins of Theatre” (Verona, 23-24 November), on the practice of early modern marginalia to theatrical texts.

In 2021 I obtained the National Scientific Habilitation for the position of Associate Professor in Classical and Late Antique Philology (10/D4) and Greek Language and Literature (10/D2).

In September 2024 I was appointed as a fixed-term researcher (type B) in Greek and Latin Philology at Ca' Foscari University, Department of Humanities.

My main research interests are ancient Greek drama and the history of classical philology. In both areas, I have devoted particular attention to the study of fragmentary Greek plays, both from a philological-exegetical point of view and with a focus on the history of philology (from the late Quattrocento to Erasmus of Rotterdam, from Richard Bentley to the Dutch philological milieu of the 16th-18th centuries). I have also worked on Greek literature of the Imperial Age, the textual transmission of ancient literary texts (in particular, the indirect tradition of Greek dramatic fragments, between the Roman Imperial Age and Late Antiquity), the ‘reuse’ of archaic epos (Homer, the Epic Cycle) in Attic drama, the theme of memory in tragedy, and, more recently, Renaissance marginalia to the texts of Greek tragedy.

In the field of fragmentary literature, in particular, I have published the monograph Sophocles deperditus. Tradizione ed ecdotica dei frammenti sofoclei tra XVI e XVII secolo (ETS, Pisa 2020) and the collected volume, jointly edited with Francesco Ginelli, The Continuity of Classical Literature Through Fragmentary Traditions (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 105, De Gruyter, Berlin-Boston 2021), as well as several other journal articles and book chapters.