Gian Biagio Conte

Gian Biagio Conte (born 1941 in La Spezia) is an Italian classicist and professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.

Conte completed his studies in classical philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, where he was influenced by scholars such as Antonio La Penna, Sebastiano Timpanaro and Alfonso Traina [it].

He enjoys high esteem outside Italy, in particular in the Anglosphere where he has been invited as guest professor to Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Berkeley, and Stanford.

In his most successful pieces of work, for the most part articles which he later put together to form thematic volumes, Conte breaks with Croce's historicism and develops the concept of a literary system and of genre based on codes.

Conte is co-founder and director of the periodical Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici as well as a regular member of the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana in Mantua.