Cesare Questa (1934-2016) was an Italian classicist particularly known for his studies of the metres of the Roman playwrights Plautus and Terence.
His researches over many years were summed up in his major work La Metrica di Plauto e Terenzio published in Urbino in 2007.
[1] He initially studied in Rome, at the Facoltà di Lettere della Sapienza, under the teacher Ettore Paratore.
He moved to Urbino in 1963, where he mostly devoted his time to the study of Plautus.
In 1970 he founded l’Istituto di Civiltà Antiche, which housed among other things a large collection of reproductions of manuscripts of Plautus and Terence.