Crescenzo Formicola

Crescenzo Formicola is now teaching Italian Literature in the Humanistic studies department at University of Naples Federico II.
He published numerous papers about Catullo, Cicero, Virgilio, Orazio, Tibullo, Propezio, Ovidio, Tacito, Claudiano, Sidonio Apollinare. Between his writings about Virgilio there is even the whole translation of the “Georgiche”. He handled the critical edition with translation, comments and “Concordantia del Cynegeticon” of Grattio (2 voll., Pàtron, Bologna 1988; del 1995 gli Studi sull’esametro di Grattio, Loffredo, Napoli) and of the PervigiliumVeneris (Loffredo, Napoli 2005); he published the 4th book of the “Annales” by Tacito with the translation and comments. In 2016 he took over the magazine “Vichiana”, a collection of historial and philological studies.