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Ilaria Marchesi studied at the University of Florence, Italy, where she received her PhD in Classics from Rutgers University in 2002. Prior to joining Princeton University in 2024, she taught at Hofstra University, where she founded and directed the Classics Program and developed a keen interest in the ways ancient languages are taught. As Director of the Classical Language Program at Princeton, she continues her research and experimentation in language pedagogy. Ilaria is a scholar of Latin literary culture, specializing in intertextuality, with a particular focus on the role poetic allusions play in Latin prose. She authored the book 'Art of Pliny’s Letters' (Cambridge 2008), which examines the phenomenon of mapping and the subtle references to Catullus, Horace, Vergil, and Ovid within Pliny's private correspondence. Her edited volume, 'Pliny the Book-Maker: Betting on Posterity of the Epistles' (Oxford 2015), further explores these themes. Ilaria's latest book, 'Women and Martial: A Semiotic Reading' (Oxford 2024), investigates the cultural construction of social identities in the Roman world, using Martial's representation of women as a case study. In collaboration with her husband, Professor Simone Marchesi, she is currently working on a commentary of Aeneid 6, as part of an international team aiming to produce a comprehensive commentary on Vergil’s epic within an Italian series on Greek and Latin writers.
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