About

Biagio Santorelli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Florida. He holds a Ph.D. from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and the University of Pisa in Italy. His academic background is rooted in classical studies, and he is involved in research and teaching within the field of Classics. Further details about his specific research focus or contributions are not provided in the page text.

Research topics

• History
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Computer Science
• Law
• Genealogy
• Linguistics
• Art
• Philosophy
• Literature

Selected publications

• Gli Amici vades negli Excerpta Parisina ([Quint.] decl. mai. 16)

  CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa) · 2026-01-01

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• Construindo a historia e a fama na escola de retorica: a escolha final de Cicero

  CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa) · 2025-01-01

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• La matrigna sfida Quintiliano. Il Paries palmatus e il Caecus in limine ([Quint.] Decl. mai. 1-2) negli Excerpta Parisina

  CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa) · 2025-12-20

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  I cosiddetti Excerpta Parisina propongono una riscrittura dialogica delle Declamazioni maggiori pseudo-quintilianee, che pone a confronto gli argomenti dell’accusa e della difesa dei processi fittizi presupposti dalle declamazioni antiche. In questa rielaborazione, risalente al XII secolo, i materiali tratti dai modelli sono liberamente adattati e arricchiti da interventi originali del compilatore, che intende produrre un sussidio utile alla formazione retorica del suo lettore: come saggio dell’interesse di questa operazione, che testimonia la fortuna medievale delle Declamazioni maggiori e la loro vitalità nell’insegnamento scolastico, il presente contributo propone una traduzione annotata del Caecus in limine, la sezione dei Parisina che fonde i temi e le argomentazioni della prima e della seconda declamazione pseudo-quintilianea. The so-called Excerpta Parisina offer a dialogic rewriting of the Major Declamations falsely ascribed to Quintilian, setting in opposition the arguments of the prosecution and the defence in the fictional trials envisaged in the ancient declamations. In this reworking, dating to the 12th century, the material drawn from the model is adapted and enriched with original contributions by the compiler, who aims to produce a tool useful for the rhetorical training of his reader. As an example of the significance of this operation – which attests to the medieval reception of the Major Declamations and to their continuing vitality in school teaching – this article offers an annotated translation of the Caecus in limine, the initial section of the Parisina, which merges themes and arguments of the first and the second pseudo-Quintilianic declamations.

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  2023-05-25

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• Datazione e paternità delle Declamazioni maggiori pseudo-quintilianee

  De Gruyter eBooks · 2021 · 1 citations

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  This essay focuses on the dating of the Major Declamations and the in- terrelations between the speeches handed down to us in this collection. Since the late XIX century, scholarship has singled out a number of linguistic and sty- listic indicators pointing to internal connections among the extant pieces, with the aim of ascribing them to a number of authors of the imperial age. This study assesses the findings of previous inquiries in the light of a renewed analysis of the individual declamations. Account being taken not only of language and sty- le, but also of clause-rhythm, references to the Roman legal background, and a number of hints as to the expected audience of the speeches, it is argued that the Major Declamations were the work of a number of teachers (or advanced stu- dents) of rhetoric, on a time span ranging from the outset of the II to the mid-III century AD or slightly later.

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• Contro i padri troppo pronti a credere. per la datazione di [Quint.] <i>decl. mai. </i>8 (<i>Gemini languentes</i>) e 10 (<i>Sepulcrum incantatum</i>)

  Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica · 2021-01-01

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  This paper focuses on the dating of Major Declamations 8 and 10. Previous scholarship has pointed to a direct relationship between these two speeches, given the striking similarities in terms of language and shared commonplaces; in this paper I take into account a number of further resemblances with other speeches of our collection (DM 4; 18; 19), along with additional linguistic and rhythmic factors. This body of evidence leads to the conclusion that the author of DM 8 drew from DM 10, as well as from other declamations ascribed to Quintilian.

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• <i>Nubit amicus. </i>Literary Tradition and Social Criticism in Juvenal’s Portrait of Gracchus’ Wedding (<i>Sat.</i>, 2.117-148)

  Giornale italiano di filologia. Bibliotheca · 2021-01-01

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  Juvenal’s Satire 2 features the wedding between a Gracchus and a horn-blower. After clarifying the intertextual background of this episode, my essay addresses two debated issues: the identity of Gracchus, and why Juvenal has him marry a horn-blower. I maintain that Juvenal is not reporting an historical event, but he is creating a paradigmatic episode that will serve the purposes of his earliest satires; the choice of having Gracchus marry a man of an incomparably lower status, and in particular a musician, is in itself driven by a literary memory: a traditional episode portrays a more famous Gracchus as consistently accompanied by a musician; such an anecdote was probably twisted by Juvenal into the portrait of a wedding meant to symbolize the decay of contemporary morality.

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Frequent coauthors

• Antonio Stramaglia

  3 shared

• Lewis A. Sussman

  2 shared

• Cynthia Damon

  University of Manchester

  2 shared

• Tiziano Dorandi

  2 shared

• Arturo De

  University of Pennsylvania

  1 shared

• Mario Lentano

  1 shared

• Antonio Pistellato

  Ca' Foscari University of Venice

  1 shared

• Chiara Renda

  Ca' Foscari University of Venice

  1 shared

Education

• Perfezionamento in Discipline Classiche (PhD in Classics), Classe di Lettere

  Scuola Normale Superiore

  2012

• Laurea specialistica in Scienze dell'Antichità (MA in Classics), Facoltà di Lettere

  Università di Pisa

  2009

• Diploma in Discipline Classiche, Classe di Lettere

  Scuola Normale Superiore

  2009

• Laurea triennale in Lettere (BA in Literatures), Facoltà di Lettere

  Università di Pisa

  2007