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Alessandro Schiesaro (Savona, May 29, 1963) is an Italian Latinist and Classical Philologist.

Biography
Alessandro Schiesaro studied at the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa with Gian Biagio Conte, then furthered his education at the Universities of Berkeley and Oxford. He taught in the United States as Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and then as full professor at Princeton University. In 1995 he was awarded the Chair of Latin Literature at the Department of Classical Studies at King's College London. In 2006 he became chair of Latin Literature at the University of Roma La Sapienza, where he founded and directed the School of Advanced Studies. From 2016 he taught at the University of Manchester, remaining there until 2021, when he was called to occupy the chair of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore. In October 2022, he was appointed deputy director of the Scuola Normale Superiore, at the proposal of Director Luigi Ambrosio.

Schiesaro has also served as a policy adviser on academic and scientific issues, initially in the Italian Democratic Party together with Luciano Modica. He was also head of the technical secretariat for universities in the Ministry of Universities and Research led by Mariastella Gelmini ("The People of Freedom") in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth cabinet. He was president of SPES, a company that promotes university establishment in the city of Savona.

Schiesaro is primarily concerned with classical Latin poetry (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), but has also studied Latin prose writers such as Seneca and Apuleius. His work includes interest in literary theory, particularly studies on intertextuality, also from a cultural studies perspective.

Monographies

 * Simulacrum et imago. Gli argomenti analogici nel de rerum natura. Pisa 1990. – Review by C. D. N. Costa, The Classical Review, New Series, 41, 1991, 481–482.
 * – Review by George W. M. Harrison, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

Aritcles

 * L'infinito in versi, Introduction to: Lucrezio, De rerum natura, transl. by R. Raccanelli, Collezione I Millenni, Torino, Einaudi, 2003, ISBN 978-88-061-6692-2.
 * La nostalgia dell'impossibile, Introduction to: Virgilio, Eneide, transl. by Rosa Calzecchi Onesti, Roma, Scripta Arte, 2003.
 * Virgil in Bloomsbury, in: Proceedings of the Virgil Society 24, 2001, 31-47.
 * Dissimulazioni giambiche nell'Ibis, in: Giornate Filologiche F. Della Corte, Genova 2001, 125-136.
 * Estetica della tirannia, in: Seneca e il suo tempo, Roma 2000, 135-159.
 * Bere tranquilli: Seneca, Tieste 452 (e Fedra 208), in: RFIC 127, 1999, 197-205.