Network Members: Sofia Piacentin

 Sofia Piacentin

Sofia studied Classics (BA 2010) and Archaeology (MA 2011) with a focus on Latin epigraphy at the University of Verona. In 2017 she was awarded a PhD in Ancient History at King’s College London on confiscations of individual property, public sales and fines in the Roman Republic. She was then appointed Teaching Fellow in Roman History in the same university where she delivered lectures and seminars on a wide range of different topics. She also volunteered at the Naukratis Project (2012), in the Greece and Rome Department of the British Museum and at the National Gallery (2016), for the digitisation of the Thos. Agnew & Sons Archive. Her research and interests focus on Roman social and economic history, including the definition of private property and the role of patrimonial sanctions from the Republican age up to the Principate. On the topic she has recently published the monograph Financial penalties in the Roman Republic: a study of confiscations of individual property, public sales, and fines (509-58 BC). Mnemosyne Supplement, 447. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. In October 2018 she joined the ERC project PATRIMONIVM, based at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne, where she was in charge of surveying and researching imperial properties in Gaul, Germany and Britain. As part of the Italian reverse brain drain programme "Rita Levi Montalcini", in June 2023 she will join the University of Verona as senior researcher (ricercatrice RTD-B) with a project on domestic violence in the Roman world.