Born l955, student, then Research Fellow at the Scuola Normale di Pisa, l987-9O associate professor in Classics, University of Milano, l99O- full professor in Latin Literature, University of Verona, and Head of the Classics Department. 2000- professor of Latin Literature, University of Siena at Arezzo and G. and H. Spogli professor of Latin, Stanford.
Member of Academia Europaea (Elected September 2012).
Referee for research projects, ERC (September 2012).
Administration Board (Consiglio d’Amministrazione), Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, Rome.
Member of scientific board and co-founder, Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici (Pisa l978-). Editor of a new international, multi-authored commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses for the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla (5 volumes: volumes 1-5, Milan 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013); under contract for Cambridge UP (English version).
General editor of the journal ‘Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica’, Florence 2002-.
Editor (with Robert Fowler/Dirk Obbink/Nigel Wilson), ‘Sozomena. Studies in the recovery of ancient texts’, monograph series, W. De Gruyter..
Accademico (1998-) Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana, Mantova..
Fondazione Valla, member of scientific board (2000-).
