Attività di Ricerca

Gli interessi di ricerca sono rivolti principalmente all’esegesi tardoantica e medievale, in particolare, ai commentari virgiliani di Servio e del Servius auctus, alla scoliastica medievale relativa alle Metamorfosi di Ovidio e ai commenti parafrastici a Seneca tragico. Ha completato l’editio princeps dei commenti di Nicholas Trevet alle tragedie di Seneca, un progetto avviato da Ezio Franceschini, con l’edizione dell’expositio dell’Oedipus (2008), e della stessa tragedia ha pubblicato (2012) il commento inedito dell’erudito parmense Giovanni Segarelli. Del 2023 è l'edizione critica della sezione di commento relativa alle Troades. Ha rivolto la sua attenzione a Plauto, Orazio, Marziale, Rutilio Namaziano, Gerolamo, i Panegirici e i Mitografi latini (Terzo Mitografo Vaticano). Tra i filoni di ricerca più recenti rientrano le testimonianze antiche e medievali sulla transumanza (fonti storiche latine e lessicografia) e l’agiografia latina altomedievale (la memoria micaelica garganica): è del 2017 la pubblicazione dell'edizione critica, corredata di commento storico-critico, del testo latino della Memoria agiografica di san Michele sul Gargano (Bibliotheca Michaelica), di cui è in corso di allestimento una edizione digitale, e del 2018 il volume di Latina Didaxis "La transumanza nel mondo romano: paesaggi storici, passaggi letterari e percorsi lessicali" (Silvae nr. 50-51). - Attualmente è PI del PRIN PNRR 2022 "Transhumance in the Ancient World: Historical Landscapes, Literary Passages and Lexical Paths" con le Università di Foggia e Cosenza.

Born in Bari (1977) Alessandro Lagioia graduated in Classics cum laude (2001) from the University of Bari, submitting a dissertation on Plautus’s prologues and then achieved his PhD in History and Civilizations in “Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages” at the University of Bari with a Phd dissertation on the Plautus quotations in Servius and the additional DS scholia (2006). Since 2007 he has held a temporary research position at the same University with three research grants, involved in projects related to critical editions of unpublished manuscripts of Medieval Commentaries to Classical authors. As a member of the FIRB 2010-17 “Sacred Spaces and Identity Paths” he worked under a three-year appointment on the hagiographic tradition concerning Saint Michael the Archangel. In 2016 he was appointed Research Fellow (Rtd a) at the DISUM Department of the University of Bari, teaching Latin Literature in the History and Social Science Curriculum. In December 2018 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Latin at the University of Bari (Rtd b) and became Associate Professor in December 2001 in the same University (Dipartimento di Ricerca e Innovazione Umanistica). In October 2020 he obtained a qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Full Professor of Latin Language and Literature; in April 2018, a further qualification as Associate Professor of Classical and Late-Antique Philology; in October 2018 as Associate Professor of Medieval Latin Literature and Philology; in December 2023 he obtained a qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Full Professor of Medieval Latin Literature and Philology.

He is currently Associate Professor of Medieval and Humanistic Latin Literature at the University of Bari: courses of Classical Literature and master's degree courses in History and Social Sciences, Modern Philology and Digital Heritage and Museums, Archives and Libraries.

In the three-year period 2016-2018, he was Scientific Responsible for the Research Project ‘Vie della transumanza, solchi della memoria’ (Routes of Transhumance, Furrows of Memory), Future in Research - Creative Industry (and Cultural Development), funded by the European Fund for Development and Cohesion in the framework of the ‘Programme in Support of Intelligent Specialisation and Social and Environmental Sustainability’.
As of 1 December 2023, he is Principal Investigator of the 24-month EU-funded national PRIN PNRR 2022 project NextGenerationEu, entitled TRANSHUMANCE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD: Historical Landscapes, Literary Passages and Lexical Paths (ERC Area: SH5)

He is editor-in-chief of the classical and humanistic studies series "Scrinia" (https://edipuglia.it/collana/scrinia/) and on the editorial board of the Journal of Antiquity and Late Antiquity “Invigilata Lucernis” (Edipuglia ed.) and the Journal’s book series “Quaderni di Invigilata” (same review). Since 2016 he is a component of the international research team Ovide en français (OEF), funded by the CNRS.
As a speaker, he attends scientific conferences on classical studies held at universities and research facilities in Italy and abroad (Belgium, Greece, Romania). As Visiting Professor, he taught Latin Metric at the Kapodistrian University of Athens for the 7th semester of the Graduate Program (September 2019 – early January 2020).
His research interests mainly cover the Late Antique and Medieval school production, as main fields: Latin school texts and teaching procedures, with special emphasis on the ancient Virgilian scholarship (Servius and other Commentaries on Virgil), the indirect tradition of Plautus, the Ovidian exegetical tradition in the Middle Ages, Seneca’s tragedies and Medieval commentators (Trevet, Segarelli), the so called Third Vatican Mythographer. A part of his scientific work concerns Classical Authors, as Plautus, Terence and Martial, and the Late Antique production: Rutilius Namatianus, the Latin Panegyrics, Jerome, Augustine.
He deals mainly with the manuscript tradition and has prepared critical editions of several unpublished authors of the Middle Ages. Among the research areas are also the Latin hagiography of the early Middle Ages and the ancient and medieval testimonies on the phenomena of pilgrimages and transhumance.