Iván Parga Ornelas is a short term fellow at the LBI working on the uses of ancient myth in the religious epics of Giovanni Baptista Spagnoli “Mantovano”. Iván is also Jagger Lecturer in Ancient Greek at Jesus College, Oxford. He holds a PhD in Renaissance Studies from the University of Warwick, where he wrote a thesis on the fifteenth-century Neo-Latin author Maffeo Vegio. Iván has also completed studies in Classics and Medieval studies in Rome and Madrid. Alongside his professional interest in Latin and Greek literature, Iván enjoys modern literature, mainly in Spanish and English, and cinema.

Publications:

‘Becoming a Neo-Latin poet in the early Quattrocento: The beginning of Maffeo Vegio’s poetic career’, in Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Leuven 2022) (Leiden: Brill, 2024), pp. 510-522

“The Promise of Immortality in Maffeo Vegio’s Supplementum Aeneidos. Reassessment of the Poem Based on its Dedicatory Letter to Francesco Barbavara”, Humanistica Lovaniensia, 73 (2024; forthcoming)

With Livia Lupi, translation of Francesco Pizzolpasso, De architecturae sacrae aedis Castelleonis, in Livia Lupi, Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy: Innovation and Persuasion at the Intersection of Art and Architectural Practice (Turnhout: Brepols, 2024), pp. 153-166.

Review of Dante Alighieri, Monarchia: Sobre la monarquía universal, bilingual edition and translation by Raffaele Pinto (Madrid: Cátedra, 2021), Tenzone: Revista de la Asociación Complutense de Dantología, 21 (2022), pp. 167-174

“Student-led Initiatives at Oxford and Cambridge”, in Communicative approaches to ancient languages, with Josey Parker, ed. by Mair E. Lloyd and Steven Hunt (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 179-186.