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Francesco Cassini is an ancient historian and archaeologist specializing in the Roman Republic, Italy, and the western Mediterranean, as well as Latin epigraphy. Before joining University College London, he held positions at Columbia University in New York and Sapienza University in Rome, where he was a member of the Sapienza School of Advanced Studies. His scholarly contributions include topics related to civic urban history in Italian cities, imperial ideology represented in monuments, and archaeological work in his native region of Venetia. With extensive on-site experience, he has collaborated on curatorial projects involving antiquities collections and excavation archives with Sapienza University and the Capitoline Superintendency for Cultural Heritage. Currently, he leads a project named ICONOS that investigates the iconographic reception of ancient myths and maintains an online database for epigraphic collections in the city of Rome. His research also encompasses processes of empire-building, labor production in the ancient urban economy, and the folklore of popular culture from antiquity, as well as the history of classical scholarship.