Latin and Its Legacy

Carmelo Nicolò Benvenuto is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Basilicata. He deals with Byzantine literature connected to the relations and cultural exchanges between the Byzantine East and the Latin West in the Komnenian age, with particular interest in the relations between churches and the polemical treatises on the Filioque. 

Raffaella Cantore, PhD in Philology of Ancient and Medieval Texts (University of Udine), is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the University of Ferrara. A specialist in the text of Herodotus and its manuscript tradition, her research focuses on Greek historiography, lexicography, the transmission of texts in the Byzantine period, and the reception of Greek culture in the Este courts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with particular attention to the visual arts.

Valentino D’Urso is a researcher (RTT) in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Salerno and holds the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) for the position of Associate Professor in the same field. His research interests focus on Latin epic poetry, Statius’ Silvae, Tacitus’ opera minora, and the exegesis of classical texts during the period of Renaissance Humanism. In addition to various articles, his publications include a commentary on Book VIII of Lucan’s Bellum civile (Napoli 2019), an edition with commentary of Statius’ Ecloga ad Claudiam uxorem (Pisa 2024), and an edition of Tacitus’ Dialogus de oratoribus (Santarcangelo di Romagna 2025).

Chiara Telesca is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck, working in the LAGOOS project ([‘LAGOOS’ Y 1519-G], Grant DOI 10.55776/Y1519), which aims to publish the diary of K. B. Hase. Her research interests span late antique and Byzantine rhetoric—with particular focus on the School of Gaza—as well as the history of classical philology and studies on Realia. Since 2021, she has been qualified as an associate professor in Classical Late Antique Philology.