FACULTY
Mario Citroni
Mario Citroni was born in Malè (Trento).
He is full professor of Latin literature and Director of the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (SUM) (Italian Institute of Human Sciences).
He graduated at Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.
From 1970 to 1981 he has been lecturer in Latin literature at the University of Florence. From 1981 to 2006 he has been full professor and from 1984 to 1987 he was dean Faculty of Education.
From 1987 to 1999 he has been pro-rector for libraries (promoting and coordinating automation of the university's libraries), and member of commissions for development of national library systems at the Ministry of the Cultural Heritage and the Ministry of Universities and Research.
From 1990 to 1993 he has been head Department of Sciences of Antiquity.
From 1995 to 1998 he has been member of the Academic Senate, with responsibilities in research policy.
From 2002 to 2006 he has been member of the Board of Governors; scholar of the relation between author and public in Latin poetry (Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid) and the various aspects of the mutual relation between literature and society, literature and mentality, literature and customs in Latin culture.
Currently is also director of an inter-university research group in the field of Latin philology and literature; contributes to "Illinois Classical Studies", "Gnomon" and "Classical Journal" (reviews); member editorial board "Materiali e Discussioni per l'Analisi dei Testi Classici", "Dictynna" and "Exemplaria Classica".
Books
Horace's Ars Poetica and the Marvellous, in Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature (Oxford University 2009);
Occasion and Levels of Address in Horatian Lyric, in Oxford Readings in Horace (Oxford University Press 2009);
Poetry in Augustan Rome, in Blackwell Companion to Ovid (Blackwell, Oxford 2009);
The Concept of the Classical and the Canons of Model Authors in Roman Literature, in Classical Pasts (Princeton University Press 2008);
editor "Memoria e identità. La cultura romana costruisce la sua immagine", Università di Firenze (2003);
contributed to "Oxford Classical Dictionary", 3rd ed., Oxford Univ. Press;
his recent essays (published by Fondation Hardt, Geneva, Brill, Leiden, Winter, Heidelberg, Princeton Univ. Press and others) focus on the canon of Latin authors and the genesis and meaning of the concept of "classical" in ancient and modern culture; co-author and editor "Letteratura di Roma antica", ibi (1997)