Between Philology, Palaeography and History: New Directions for Digital Editions of Ancient and Medieval Sources

Giancarlo Abbamonte is professor of classics at the Federico II University of Naples. He studied as PhD student at the University of Salerno and was a fellow at the University of Copenhagen, the Warburg Institute (London), and the Beinecke Library at Yale University. He was visiting professor at the Universities of Strasbourg and Girona. His interests are the genres of Latin lexicography and commentaries of classics from the imperial age to the fifteenth century, the humanistic reception of classics, and the Latin translations of Greek texts. He is currently working on the book collection of Aulus Ianus Parrhasius, preserved at the National Library of Naples

Matteo Di Franco, member of the Sicilian Institute of Byzantine and Neo-Hellenic Studies “Bruno Lavagnini,” was PhD student at the universities of Palermo and Strasbourg. He has been researcher at the universities of Cambridge and Heidelberg and visiting fellow at the Bodleian Library (Oxford). His studies focus on the tradition of Aelius Aristides: he has recently published the critical edition of the Eulogy of Rome (or. 26 Keil). For the Federico II University’s project ReTI project (PRIN 2022), he edited the critical and digital edition of Aristides’ Panegyric to Cyzicus (or. 27 Keil).