Maurizio Sonnino
Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Sapienza, University of Rome
Maurizio Sonnino (Rome, 1971) is Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Sapienza, University of Rome. He studied at and graduated from Sapienza, University of Rome with a Thesis on Greek Literature (Tutor: Prof. Luigi Enrico Rossi). After his first PhD in "Filologia e Storia del Mondo Classico" (Università Statale di Milano, 1999), he was 'visiting researcher' at the Department of Classics of the University of Nottingham (September-October 1999). After having passed the "concorso ordinario per esami e titoli a cattedre nelle scuole e istituti statali di istruzione secondaria" in 2001, he taught Greek and Latin Language and Literature at the Secondary School from September 2000 to December 2010 (with a leave for studies from November 2006 to August 2009). In 2010 he gained a second PhD in Civiltà e Tradizione Greca e Romana (Università di RomaTre). Since December 2010 he was first 'Ricercatore' (Research Fellow) and 'Professore Aggregato' (Lecturer), then Associate Professor at the Department of "Scienze dell'Antichità" at Sapienza, University of Rome, the institutional position he is currently holding. He is member of the Editorial Staff of the Review “Seminari Romani di cultura greca”. His interests focus on Greek Drama, with particular attention for plays discovered on papyrus finds and, in general, for Aristophanes, Euripides, and the fragmentary plays of comic poets (especially Eupolis). He is interested in the History of Classical Scholarship. He edited the editio princeps of Michel'Angelo Giacomelli's XVIII cent. manuscript containing the most ancient Italian translation with philological commentary of four comedies of Aristophanes. In past times, he translated some latin scientific works of the XVI-XVIIth cent. by Jacques Besson, Athanasius Kircher, and Kaspar Schott.