Giuseppina Magnaldi, Professor of Classical Philology, University of Turin

Giuseppina Magnaldi is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Turin (Italy), where she taught until 2018. She is a member of the scientific boards of the Revue d'Histoire des Textes, Lexis, and Fondazione Parini Chirio, and is also co-editor of the 'Minima Philologica' and 'Millennium' series for Edizioni dell'Orso. In December 2001 she was awarded the Italian Premiership's prize for culture 'for outstanding activity in essay-writing'; she has published many books and articles about the philosophical theory of oikeiosis and on the manuscript tradition and the constitutio textus of several Greek and Latin authors (including Galen, Cicero, Varro, Seneca, Suetonius, Tacitus, Gellius, and Apuleius), with special attention to the ancient marginal notes passed into the texts.

"She presents us with a critical text that is based on an innovative and agreeable configuration of the manuscript tradition and equipped with a reliable bibliography. This new Apuleius text stimulates further reflections and it will be necessary for future studies to deal with it." -- Elisa Dal Chiele

"... a very welcome new beginning for Apuleius studies, an opportunity for a fresh look at the whole corpus...The volume is well organised and thorough, and M.'s editorial reasoning, as presented in her (stylistically Apuleian) praefatio, is clear and accessible." -- Jeffrey P. Ulrich, The Classical Review