Mario D'AMBROSI | Curriculum

He graduated in 2000 with full marks (110/110 cum laude and publishing mention), by delivering a dissertation upon Theodore Prodromus' tetrasticha about the life of saint Gregory of Nazianzus (supervisor: prof. Augusta Acconcia Longo).

Later on, he won a position for the Doctoral degree in Classical Philology (PhD) at Department of Ancient Sciences, University of Salerno. Under the academic supervision of prof. Giuseppe De Gregorio (designate tutor), he had been researching about the accentual rules of Byzantine hexameter, by collecting materials of study and analyzing the production of Byzantine hexametric poets from 5-6th to 12th centuries.

In 2004 he took his Doctor's degree (PhD), by delivering a dissertation upon Greek hexameter from late Antiquity to Byzantine Middle-era. From his doctoral dissertation he produced some publications: the first one was published in «Bollettino dei Classici», 24 issue (2003 [published 2004]), 3rd series, pp. 105-133, with the title "L'esametro accentuativo in Giorgio Pisida". The second one was published in the miscellaneous book "Miscellanea in ricordo di Angelo Raffaele Sodano", edited by Silvio M. Medaglia, Naples 2004 («Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità - Università degli Studi di Salerno», 29), pp. 89-118, with the title "L'esametro accentuativo tra V e VI secolo. Studio metrico-linguistico sull'Ekphrasis di Cristodoro di Copto". The third one appeared in «Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale», 48/1 issue (January-June 2006), pp. 87-122, with the title "La produzione esametrica di IX-X secolo nell'Anthologia Palatina: Ignazio Diacono, Anastasio Questore, Cometa, Costantino Rodio".

He also produced a critical edition of Theodore Prodromus' tetrasticha about the life of Gregory of Nazianzus, which appeared in monographic volume: "Teodoro Prodromo. I tetrastici giambici ed esametrici sugli episodi principali della vita di Gregorio Nazianzeno", introduction, critical edition, italian translation and commentary, Rome 2008, pp. 304 («Testi e Studi Bizantino-Neoellenici», 17).

Within the seminars of the Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica (A.I.C.C.) at Salerno, on March 16th 2006 he lectured about an ecdotic problem concerning the Byzantine tradition of Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica, focusing his attention on book III, 1-35. The written text of this lecture was published with the title "Apollonio Rodio, III 1-35: una questione di critica testuale" in the miscellaneous book "Aspetti del mondo classico: lettura ed interpretazione dei testi. Seminari in collaborazione con l'A.I.C.C. – Sede di Salerno", Naples 2006 («Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità - Università degli Studi di Salerno», 31), pp. 41-60 with 6 plates.

Since academic year 2002/2003 he was assistant of prof. Giuseppe De Gregorio for the Laboratory of Greek Palaeography, mostly concerning informatics' instruments of research applied to the study and identification of Greek literary texts.

In September 2004 he won a position ("assegnista di ricerca") for the research project titled "Tradizione, ecdotica, esegesi, commento di testi greci e latini", under the scientific supervision of prof. Giuseppe De Gregorio: this researching project was renewed for two years, until August 31st 2008. Its purpose was to produce the critical edition of Theodore Prodromus' tetrasticha about the life of John Chrysostom.

Since the same date (September 2004) he was included in the examining board for the seminars of Greek Palaeography and Byzantine Philology at the University of Salerno. From February 2nd to March 16th 2005 and from May 9th to 29th 2006 he had been giving lessons for the Doctorate courses about informatics' instruments for word-processing and publishing (6th and 7th cycle of Doctorate in Classical Philology at Department of Ancient Sciences, University of Salerno).

From November 1st until December 22nd 2008 he had been attending to his researches concerning the critical edition of Theodore Prodromus' tetrasticha about the life of the Three Hierarchs, with a six months study grant issued by Department of Ancient Sciences, University of Salerno.

Since December 30th 2008 he is Assistant Professor at the same Department, University of Salerno (now Department of Humanities), for the sector L-FIL-LET/07 (Byzantine civilization).

His researching fields are: Byzantine ‘learned’ poetry in classical metres, particularly hexameter and iambic trimeter; critical edition and commentary of XIIth century's authors, especially Theodore Prodromus; ecdotic problems concerning classical works' tradition (for example Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica) and their reception at Byzantium; Byzantine lexicon, both learned and popular; Byzantine hagiography; exile and persecution in Byzantine and Norman world.

Since academic year 2008/9 (since 2011/12 as Aggregate Professor) he has been teaching Byzantine Philology, Byzantine History as well as Greek Palaeography for the courses of Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, University of Salerno.

He has been scientific supervisor of the Didactic Laboratory of Ancient Sciences at Department of Humanities.

He has been co-editor of the International Congress of Associazione Italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti (AIPD) held in Fisciano and Salerno in September 2009.

He has been designated expert reviewer in the VQR 2011-2014 process (L-FIL-LET/07 Civiltà bizantina).

He has been peer reviewer for the journal Byzantinische Zeitschrift and for scientific project funding evaluation by FWF Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds.