Danovi, Vittorio Remo

Academic background

Vittorio Remo Danovi is currently a Lecturer in Classics. After obtaining a BA and an MA in Classics from the University of Bologna and a PgDip in Humanities from the Collegio Superiore of the University of Bologna, he moved to Oxford to read for a DPhil in Classical Languages and Literature. Before joining St Anne’s, he worked as an Ancient Greek and Latin Language Instructor at the Faculty of Classics of the University of Oxford and as a Lecturer II in Latin at Magdalen College.

Teaching

Undergraduate: Literae Humaniores (Classics); Classics and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Classics and English; Classics and Modern Languages

Research interests

Vittorio Remo’s research mainly focuses on late-antique and early-medieval exegesis of Latin Classical poetry. More broadly, he is interested in Latin textual criticism and in the transmission of Latin texts.

Recent Publications

1. ‘epitome rerum gestarum Alexandri Magni and liber de morte testamentoque Alexandri Magni’, ‘Granius Licinianus’, and (with A. Bramanti) ‘Aelius Donatus’, in J.A. Stover (ed.), The Oxford Guide to the Transmission of the Latin Classics (Oxford, forthcoming).

2. ‘The New Tiberius Claudius Donatus and the Temple of Apollo at Cumae’, Maia n.s. 76 (2024).

3. ‘Evangelo Vergiliomastix. Appunti su tre critiche a Virgilio nel primo libro dei Saturnalia’, L’Antiquité Classique 92 (2023), 163–72.

4. ‘Il rapporto stemmatico tra i testimoni continuativi di Tiberio Claudio Donato e il “Virgilio di Tours”’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 166 (2023)

5. ‘Interpretative Issues in the Commentum Monacense on Terence’s Eunuchus’, Giornale italiano di Filologia 75 (2023), 337–48.

6. ‘Six Notes on the Commentary on Vergil’s Eclogues Attributed to Hilary of Orléans’, Myrtia 38 (2023).

7. ‘Was the Commentary on Vergil by Aelius Donatus Extant in the Ninth Century? A Reappraisal’, Philologus 167 (2023), 156–72.

8. ‘New Citations from the Libri Etruscorum and Varro in Vergilian Scholia’, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 112 (2022).

9. ‘Un codex descriptus (o inutilis) nella tradizione manoscritta degli scholia Bernensia’, Giornale italiano di Filologia 74 (2022), 340–71.

10. ‘A Carolingian Emendation of Tiberius Claudius Donatus, ad Aen. 3.118’, Hermes 149 (2022), 257–8.

11. ‘Il contributo di due recenziori alla constitutio textus degli scolî del Seruius auctus ad Aen. 3’, Paideia 76 (2021), 261–9.

12. (with others) ‘Joutes verbales : l’impolitesse à visage urbain (Hor. Sat. I, 9, 35–43)’, Revue de Linguistique latine du Centre A. Ernout 20 (2020), 118–46.

13. ‘Petronio 2, 7’, Latinitas n.s. 8 (2020), 9–16.

14. ‘Stratificazioni redazionali nella cosiddetta Origo gentis Romanae’, Eikasmós 31 (2020), 241–51.

15. ‘Una possibile eco antimachea in Nevio’, Philologus 163 (2020), 351–3.

16. ‘Una possibile eco neviana nel primo libro dell’Eneide’, Revue de philologie, de littérature et d’histoire anciennes 93 (2019), 83–9.