Claudio Moreschini (born 1938?) is an Italian expert in Classical Philology,
Platonism and
Patristics
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, often approaching early Christian authors from a literary perspective. After initial studies at the
University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore in the same city, Moreschini studied at Oxford, notably with
E.R.Dodds and
Eduard Fraenkel
Eduard David Mortier Fraenkel FBA () was a German classical scholar who served as the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1935 until 1953. Born to a family of assimilated Jews in the German Empire, he studied Clas ...
to whom he acknowledges a special debt.
From 1966 onwards he occupied a succession of posts in the
University of Pisa, particularly as Professore ordinario di Letteratura Latina, Professore ordinario di Letturatura Cristiana Antica and as Head of Department. He has worked with the Istituto di Scienze Religiose at Trent and latterly at the
Istituto Patristico Augustinianum in Rome.
Publications include an Italian translation of Thucydides, 2 dialogues of Plato for the Budé series, 2 Ciceronian dialogues, Apuleius, Consolatio Philosophiae in the Leipzig
Teubner
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series,
Tertullian Cyprian, Jerome in
Corpus Christianorum of Turnhout. Moreschini is a major contributor to
Sources Chrétiennes
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. He has also published items concerning Jamblichus and Maximus the Confessor.
Claudio Moreschini is interested in the reception of antiquity, not least Plato, at the Renaissance and in nineteenth century Italy (Leopardi).
In 2009 he was recipient of the Marcello Gigante Prize.
Publications
*A Christian in Toga. Boethius: Interpreter of Antiquity and Christian Theology, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (BERG Bd. 003),2014.
*(with Enrico Norelli) Early Christian Greek and Latin literature,Hendrickson Publishers Inc. 2005 (Italian original: Morcelliana 1995)
* Storia della filosofia patristica, Morcelliana, Brescia, 2004.
Contributions to Sources Chrétiennes
*SC 291 Cyprien, A Donat et la vertu de patience,1982
*SC 318 Grégoire de Nazianze, Discours 32-37,1985
*SC 358 Grégoire de Nazianze, Discours 38-41,1990
*SC 319 Tertullien, Exhortation à la charité,1985
*SC 456 Tertullien, Contre Marcion, tome IV,2000
*SC 483 Tertullien, Contre Marcion, tome V, 2004
Sources
*Università di Pisa/Ateneo 2 March 2010
*Sources Chrétiennes, Editions Le Cerf
*Teubner
*Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
*Morcelliana
References
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Living people
Italian Christian theologians
1930s births
Patristic scholars