Ilaria MarchesiIlaria Marchesi is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University, where she directs the Classics Program. In 2008, she published The Art of Pliny’s Letters: A Poetics of Allusion in the Private Correspondence, amonograph on intertextuality in the letters of Pliny the Younger for which she won an NEH grant. She also edited and contributed to the book Pliny the Book-Maker: Betting on Posterity in the Epistles (2015). Besides epistolography, her research interests include Latin satirical poetry and the ancient novel; she has published articles on Horace, Petronius, and the reception of classical authors in Petrarch. Most recently, she has published Live in Pompei (2016), an essay in narrative form on the cultural value of the archeological past for the young generation, written with her husband, Simone Marchesi. Read More Read Less