After completing an MA degree in Classics and a PhD in Reception Studies and Classical Tradition, Filomena Giannotti has been awarded the “National Scientific Qualification” as Full Professor of Latin Language and Literature.
Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Siena, Department of Philology and Criticism of Ancient and Modern Literatures.
Her main areas of interest are:
- Virgil’s Aeneid;
- Late Antiquity;
- Reception Studies and Classical Tradition in Contemporary Literature.
She is the author of various articles on the Vergilian poem, of the notes on the Aeneid translated by Alessandro Fo (Einaudi 2012) and of the collection Giorgio Caproni, Il mio Enea (Garzanti 2020). In 2021 she was awarded the Premio Internazionale Virgilio - sezione Premio Mantua.
In addition to Nei pensieri degli uomini. Momenti della fortuna di Ambrogio, Girolamo, Agostino (Patron 2009), she published contributions on various late antique Latin authors, especially on Sidonius Apollinaris: Sperare meliora (ETS 2016), a commentary, with introduction and translation, on the third book of his letters; the chapter Sidonius Reception: Late Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries in the Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris (Edinburgh University Press 2020) and the collection of studies Scrinia Arverna (ETS 2021).
She is currently working on Late Antique Latin biographies. In 2023 she published Magnus Felix Ennodius' Confessio, the so called Eucharisticum, 438V = opusc. 5 (first complete Italian translation and first commentary ever published) and in 2025 a chapter on Augustine's Confessiones in R. Castellana (ed.), Biografia e autobiografia. Scritture di vite dall'antichità a oggi (Carocci). She now has a monographic study in preparation on saint Patrick's Confessio.