MARIA CHIARA SCAPPATICCIO is Full Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the Università di Napoli 'Federico II', where she was also Principal Investigator for the European Research Council-funded project PLATINUM (Papyri and Latin Texts: Insights and Updated Methodologies. Towards a Philological, Literary and Historical Approach to Latin Papyri – ERC-StG 2014 no. 636983). Her books include Artes grammaticae in frammenti. I testi grammaticali latini e bilingui su papiro: edizione commentate (2015) and Fabellae. Frammenti di favole latine e bilingui greco-latine di traduzione diretta (II-IV d.C.) (2017). She is the editor of The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (Cambridge, 2024).

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• Latin Texts on Papyrus: A Project, Its Corpus, and the Future of Research. I. The Literary Perspective, II. The Documentary Perspective M. C. Scappaticcio and L. C. Colella; Part I. Philological and Literary Insights: 1. The papyri of Terence and the Latin grammatical tradition F. Biville; 2. Latin gnomic literature in light of P. Mich. VII 430 (= CLTP IB.20) A. S. Gitner; 3. Medical or culinary recipes? On the technical prose of a first-century roll A. Garcea; 4. P. Hamb. II 167 recto: drama (in prose?) C. Panayotakis; 5. The Latin papyri from the Herculaneum library: new results and fresh perspectives T. Dorandi; 6. Editing the Carmen de Bello Aegyptiaco for the CLTP: new results and further perspectives V. Piano; 7. Virgilian Centos and Papyri Vergilianae P. Paolucci; 8. 'Varus, give me back my … money!' Marginal notes on the Hadrianus S. Rocchi; Part II. Philological and Linguistic Insights: 9. From Roman Egypt to the Renaissance: the evolution of the Celtis glossary (part 1) E. Dickey; 10. From Roman Egypt to the Renaissance: the evolution of the Celtis glossary (part 2) R. Ferri; 11. Latin in Roman soldiers' and veterans' private documents: selected case studies A. Pezzella; 12. The relevance of the Italian papyri to the study of late Latin and the emergence of the Romance vernaculars R. Sornicola; 13. On the Latin–Arabic bilingual papyrus, British Library inv. 3124: the 'Italian' connection G. D'Alessio; 14. Allography in Latin ostraca (Assenamat, Gigthi, Bu Njem): linguistic analysis of Paleo-Amazigh personal names and external implications A. Bernini; 15. Latin ostraca from Tripolitania C. Múrcia Sanchez; Part III. Palaeographic Insights: 16. The Latin papyri and the history of writing, or about their contribution to the formation of a scientific vocabulary in palaeography T. De Robertis; 17. Some reflections on the presence of accents in the Montserrat Cicero's in Catilinam ii A. Nodar; 18. A Survey on abbreviating (and punctuation) signs in Latin documentary papyri, ostraka and tablets from Roman Africa and the East (BCE I–VII CE) G. Iovine; 19. Rethinking the evidence for Latin shorthand in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages A. Ghignoli; Part IV. Juridical and Historical Insights: 20. Ancient jurists and Latin papyri F. Nasti; 21. The contribution of the CLTP to the study of Roman justice M. Pedone; 22. Julio-Claudian procedural reforms and imperial constitutions in the light of BGU II 611 and BGU II 628 P. Buongiorno; 23. Marcus Aper and the ala Apriana L. Capponi; 24. Did a fiscus barbaricus ever exist? Remarks on P.Ital. 1 (AD 445–446) D. Internullo.