Luca D’Anselmi is a classicist and writer whose research focuses on the history of liberal education, patristics, and the reception of classical poetry.

He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Bryn Mawr College in Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies and he teaches at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, Pennsylvania.

Academic Writing

“Augustine’s disciplines and the unity of the De musica,” in Augustinus 69.2 (2024).

“Augustine, the disciplines, and Varro’s Disciplinarum libri,” in Augustinianum 64.1 (2024).

“The Neo-Latin Supplements to Virgil’s Aeneid, 1400–1700,” Ph.D. diss. Bryn Mawr College (2021).

“Metaphorical Word Order in Latin,” in The Embodied Basis of Constructions in Greek and Latin (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020).

Selected Poems

Orator, Poetry Daily (2025) reprinted from The Hopkins Review

Harrowing, Empty House Press (2025)

Tomatoes, Poetess, Dormition, Trampoline (2025)

Baptism, Ekstasis (2024)