Ivano Dionigi (born February 20, 1948 in

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) is an

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and

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. He is a Professor of Latin literature, he was Rector of the Alma Mater -

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from 2009 to 2015; he is a member of the

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. On 10 November 2012 he was nominated by

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as president of the newly formed

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Academic career

After graduating from the 'Terenzio Mamiani' high school in

, he graduated in classical literature at the

. At the same University he trained as a researcher and as a

in 1990. In 1999 he became founder and director of the La Permanenza del Classico Study Center. On 27 May 2009 he was elected Rector of the

, with 1282 preferences. Over the years his studies have focused mainly on

Lucretius Titus Lucretius Carus ( , ; – ) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem ''De rerum natura'', a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, and which usually is translated into E ...

and Seneca, on the relationship between

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and

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. He has also made over a hundred publications. He is a Member of the

Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy. The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). ...

, he was part of the Bologna City Council.

Publications

* ''Due interpretazioni unilaterali di Lucrezio'', in ''"Studi Urbinati"'', 1973. * L. Anneo Seneca, ''De otio''. Testo e apparato critico con Introduzione, Versione e Commento a cura di I. Dionigi, Brescia 1983 * ''Lucrezio. Le parole e le cose'', Bologna 1988 * Commento a T. Lucrezio Caro, ''La natura delle cose'', Milano 1990. * ''Verba et res, morfosintassi e lessico del latino'' (con E. Riganti e L. Morisi), Bari 1997. * ''Necessità dei classici'' in AA.VV., ''Di fronte ai classici'', Milano 2002.

References

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