Vincenzo Ortoleva

Vincenzo Ortoleva (23 May 1965, Catania, Italy) is an Italian classical philologist.

Ortoleva studied from 1983 to 1988 Classical Philology at University of Catania. In 1996 he took his PhD with the dissertation "La tradizione manoscritta della Mulomedicina di Publio Vegezio Renato". Habilitated to University teaching in 2003, he became Full Professor of Classical Philology at University of Catania in 2005. His particular fields of research are Greek and Latin technical literature, text tradition, textual criticism and history of classical scholarship. He has also discovered several manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors: for instance an anonymous Greek translation of the Disticha Catonis in the Cod. Monacensis Gr. 551 and unpublished fragments of the Latin writer Pelagonius in Cod. Verona, Biblioteca civica, 658.

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Lat. tripedica., in Indogermanische Forschungen, , 114, 2009, 240–256. . Max Ihm e Eugen Oder. A proposito di alcuni autografi recentemente scoperti, in Philologia antiqua, , 5, 2012, pp. 49–84. Palladio 3,30: un autentico caso di nominatiuus pendens?, in: Latin vulgaire - Latin tardif, IXe Colloque international 2-6 septembre 2009, Université Lumière Lyon 2, , Lyon 2012, pp. 235–252. Lat. Taurura e Gregorio di Nazianzo De uita sua 126, in Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione classica, , 141/1, 2013, pp. 123–136. The meaning and etymology of the adjective apiosus, in B. Maire (ed.), ‘Greek’ and ‘Roman’ in Latin Medical Texts, Studies in Cultural Change and Exchange in Ancient Medicine, , Leiden 2014, pp. 257–288. La congiunzione nē nel latino tardo (a proposito di Veg. mil. 4,41,4), in Latin Vulgaire Latin Tardif X - Actes du Xe colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif, Bergamo, 5-9 septembre 2012, Bergamo 2014, , pp. 323–342. Un frammento inedito di un non identificato trattato di medicina tardolatino, in Revue d'Histoire des Textes , n. s. 10, 2015, pp. 197–214. Le Pelagonianae emendationes: un inedito di Christian Theophil Schuch. Contributo alla critica del testo dell’Ars ueterinaria, in Eikasmós , 26, 2015, pp. 343–368.