Gorana Stepanić

Gorana Stepanić, PhD in Classical Philology (University of Zagreb, 2005), is a Croatian Neo-Latin scholar. She has taught BA and MA courses in Roman literature, Humanism, Neo-Latin literature, General literature and Latin language to students of Latin philology, Croatian philology, History and Archaeology.

The main lines of her research are Latin Humanism in Croatia (Marko Marulić and his work, Latin travel reports/Huszthi), 17th-century Latin poetry (Ignatius Georgi, Stephanus Gradi, Cajetanus Vicich), mannerisms in Latin poetry, Neo-Latin pattern poetry, late Neo-Latin (Čobarnić), and Renaissance Aristotelianism in Dubrovnik.

She has published translations from classical Latin (Cicero, De oratore) and humanist Latin (Thomas More, Utopia; Leon Battista Alberti, De pictura; Petrarch, Colonna, P. P. Vergerius, Cencio de' Rustici, Poggio Bracciolini, Flavio Biondo, Johannes Althusius, Josip Zanchi). She published, with Violeta Moretti, the first edition of Pavao Ritter Vitezović’s Epistolae metricae (Književni krug Split, 2018). Her latest book, with Pavel Gregorić, is a critical edition of Nicolaus Viti Gozzius' Commentaries on the First Book of Aristotle's Rhetoric (Brill, 2024).

CV updated on 2026-09-26.