Attilio Mastino
Attilio Mastino (Bosa 1949), già rettore dell’Università degli
studi di Sassari dal 2009 al 2014, insegna Storia Romana nel corso di laurea in
Beni Culturali e nel Dipartimento di Storia, Scienze dell’Uomo e della
Formazione.
Laureato in Lettere Classiche a Cagliari col massimo dei voti e
la pubblicazione della tesi, si è specializzato in Giornalismo a Urbino e in
Studi Sardi a Cagliari. Ha studiato a Parigi (École Normale Supérieure e Paris
I-Sorbonne sotto la direzione di André Chastagnol, Marcel Le Glay, René
Rebuffat), Bordeaux (seminari di epigrafia e informatica presso il Centre
Pierre Paris-Ausonius) e Tunisi (Institut National du Patrimoine, in
collaborazione con Azedine Beschaouch e M'hamed Fantar).. Dopo aver lavorato per
dieci anni presso l'Università di Cagliari, ha diretto a Sassari il
Dipartimento di Storia, il Centro sulle province romane, la Facoltà di Lettere
e Filosofia, il Dottorato di ricerca "Il Mediterraneo in età antica".
Per un decennio Pro rettore con delega alla ricerca. È oggi un
epigrafista con incarichi a livello internazionale e dirige gli scavi
archeologici di Uchi Maius in Tunisia. Fondatore e presidente da 30 anni del
Comitato organizzatore dei Convegni su L'Africa Romana, ha ottenuto numerosi premi
e riconoscimenti, tra cui l'"Onorificenza dello storico arabo" con
medaglia d'oro concessa dall'Unione degli storici arabi (Ittihad al-Mu’arrihin
al-Arab). Membro di diverse società scientifiche ed accademie, è condirettore
di “Epigraphica” e collabora ad alcune riviste scientifiche.
Ha varie esperienze amministrative, come quella di Assessore
all'ambiente della Provincia di Nuoro nei primi anni '90; in precedenza ha
amministrato l'Unità Sanitaria Locale di Macomer e il Comune di Bosa. Si è
lungamente impegnato nel volontariato, rivestendo incarichi regionali in
associazioni cattoliche, sportive, turistiche e ambientali. Autore di oltre 300
pubblicazioni scientifiche, ha studiato la storia e l'epigrafia della Sardegna
antica, scoprendo documenti originali sulla Corsica, l'Africa Proconsolare, la
Numidia, la Mauretania, la Tripolitania e la Cirenaica in età romana,
dedicandosi più in generale agli imperatori romani da Nerone a Caracalla, da
Diocleziano a Costantino.
Tra le opere principali
1. Gli Acta urbis. Il
"giornalismo" nell'antica Roma, Montefeltro, Urbino 1978, pp. 1-82.
2. Cornus nella storia degli studi (con catalogo delle
iscrizioni rinvenute nel territorio del comune di Cuglieri), Società
Poligrafica Sarda, Cagliari 1979 (1982, 2a ed.), pp. 1-243 e tavv. I-LXXIV.
3. Le titolature di Caracalla e Geta attraverso le
iscrizioni. Indici (Studi di Storia Antica dell'Università di Bologna, 6),
CLUEB, Bologna 1981, pp. 1-207.
4. Bosa in età giudicale. Nota sugli affreschi del Castello
di Serravalle, Gallizzi, Sassari 1991
5. Turris Libisonis (Sardegna archeologica, guide ed
itinerari, 23), in collaborazione con C. Vismara, Delfino, Sassari 1994.
6. Mare Sardum. Merci, mercati e scambi marittimi della
Sardegna antica (Tharros felix, 1), Carocci, Roma 2005 (in collaborazione
con P.G. Spanu e R. Zucca).
7. Storia della Sardegna antica (La Sardegna e la sua
storia, 2), Edizioni il Maestrale, ISBN 88-86109-98-9, Nuoro 2005, con la
collaborazione di Piero Bartoloni, Giovanni Lupinu, Paola Ruggeri, Pier Giorgio
Spanu, Raimondo Zucca.
8. Storia della Sardegna, in collaborazione con M. Brigaglia e
G.GF. Ortu, in La Grande Enciclopedia della Sardegna, 11, Bari 2007.
9. Il titolo di “Magno” dalla Repubblica all’Impero al Papato,
Giovanni Paolo Magno, I Quaderni dell’”Archivio Giuridico”, 2, a cura di
:M. Baccari e A. Mastino, Mucchi editore Modena 2010.
10. Tharros felix 4, a cura di A. Mastino. P.G. Spanu, A. Usai,
R. Zucca, Carocci, Roma 2010.
11. Tharros Felix, 5, in collaborazione con Pier Giorgio
Spanu e Raimondo Zucca, Carocci, Roma 2013, pp. 1-591
12. Quei nostri cinque magnifici anni (2009-2014), Carocci Roma
2014, pp. 1-727
Tra i lavori più recenti:
Le province occidentali durante la repubblica, in Storia del
Mediterraneo nell’antichità, IX-I secolo a.C., a cura di M. Guidetti, Jaca
Book, Milano 2004, pp. 320-347 e 410-411;
La naissance de la culture épigraphique latine en Africa,
in Débuts de l’écriture au Maghreb, Actes des colloques organisés à
Casablanca par la Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud pour les Etudes
Islamiques et le Sciences Humaines les 17-18 janvier et 18-19 avril 2002, M.H.
Fantar, A. Siraj edd., Casablanca 2004, pp. 191-221 (in collaborazione con R.
Zucca);
La Libia dai Garamanti a Giustiniano, in L’Africa romana
XV, Tozeur 2002, Roma 2004, pp. 1995-2024 (in collaborazione con R. Zucca);
I miti classici e l’isola felice, in Logos peri tes
Sardous, Le fonti classiche e la Sardegna, a cura di Raimondo Zucca,
Carocci, Roma 2004, pp. 11-26;
Il viaggio di Theodor Mommsen e dei suoi collaboratori in
Sardegna per il Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, in Theodor Mommsen e
l’Italia, Atti dei Convegni Lincei, 207, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma
2004, pp. 227-344 (anche in “Diritto @ Storia, Rivista internazionale di
Scienze Giuridiche e Tradizione Romana” 3, maggio 2004, Tradizione romana, pp.
1-86), con la collaborazione di Rosanna Mara e di Elena Pittau;
Il culto della Gens Septimia a Bulla
Regia: Settimio Severo e Caracalla in tre basai inedite
degli Agrii, dei Domitii e dei Lollii,
in Epigrafia di confine. Il confine dell’Epigrafia. Atti del Colloquio
AIEGL-Borghesi 2003, a cura di M.G. Angeli Bertinelli e A. Donati (Epigrafia e
Antichità, 21), Fratelli Lega Editori, ISBN -88-7594-023-1, Faenza 2004, pp.
371-414 (in collaborazione con M. Khanoussi).
Tharros Felix 2, Carocci 2006, pp. 1-271 (in collaborazione
con Pier Giorgio Spanu e Raimondo Zucca)
Corsica e Sardegna in età antica, in La transmission de
l’idéologie impériale dans l’occident romain, M. Navarro Caballero, J.-M.
Roddaz edd., Colloque CTHS, Bastia 2003 (Ausonius Éditions, Études 13, Actes
des Congrès Nationaux des sociétés historiques et scientifiques du Comité des
travaux historiques et scientifiques), Bordeaux-Paris 2006, con la collaborazione
di P. Ruggeri, P.G. Spanu e R. Zucca, pp. 309-326.
L’horologium offerto al pagus civium Romanorum ed
alla civitas di Numluli, in Misurare il tempo, misurare lo
spazio, Atti del Colloquio AIEGL – Borghesi 2005 (Epigrafia e antichità, 25), a
cura di M.G. Angeli Bertinelli e A. Donati, Faenza 2006, pp. 123-162 (in
collaborazione con Valentina Porcheddu).
L’imperatore pacator orbis, in A. Ibba, Scholia
Epigraphica, Studi di storia antica e di archeologia, 2, Ortacesus 2006, pp.
117-150 (in collaborazione con A. Ibba).
La risurrezione della carne nelle iscrizioni latine del primo
cristianesimo, in Dizionario di Spiritualità
Biblico-Patristica diretto da S.A. Panimolle, 45, Morte-risurrezione
nei Padri, Borla, Roma 2007, pp. 289-332
Una traccia della persecuzione dioclezianea in Sardegna
? L’exitium di Matera e la susceptio a sanctis
marturibus di Adeodata nella Turris Libisonis del IV secolo, “Sandalion,
Quaderni di cultura classica, cristiana e medievale”, 26-28, 2007, pp. 155-203
Il più antico miliario dalla Sardegna dalla strada a
Tibulas Sulcos, in Contributi all’epigrafia d’età augustea, Actes de la
XIIIe rencontre franco-italienne sur l’épigraphie du monde romain, Macerata,
9-11 settembre 2005, a cura di G.F. Paci, Tipigraf, Tivoli 2007, pp. 277-314,
in collaborazione con A. Corda
Le proprietà imperiali della Sardinia, in Le proprietà
imperiali nell’Italia romana. Economia, produzione, amministrazione, Atti
del Convegno Ferrara-Vogjhiera 3-4 giugno 2005, a cura di D. Pupillo
(Quaderni degli Annali dell’Università di Ferrara, Sezione Storia, 6), Casa
editrice Le Lettere, Firenze 2007, pp. 93-124 (in collaborazione con Raimondo
Zucca).
Nuove scoperte epigrafiche in Africa Proconsolare: Uchi Maius,
Uchi Minus, Thibaris, Thugga, in Acta XII Congressus internationalis
Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae, Barcelona 2003, Barcelona 2007, pp.
941-952, in collaborazione con M. Khanoussi, C. Cazzona, E. Ughi
Il Museo Archeologico dell’Università di Sassari nell’Ottocento:
la visita di Theodor Mommsen e la direzione di Ettore Pais, in “Annali di
storia delle Università italiane”, CLUEB, 11, 2007, pp. 381-413
Il dibattito sull’agorà degli Italici a Delo: un bilancio
retrospettivo fra ideologia e urbanistica, in Le perle e il filo. A Mario
Torelli per i suoi settanta anni, Osanna edizioni, Lavello 2008, pp. 233-242
Negromanzia, divinazione, malefici nel passaggio tra paganesimo
e cristianesimo in Sardegna: gli strani amici del preside Flavio Massimino,
in Epigrafia romana in Sardegna. Atti del I Convegno di studio,
Sant’Antioco, 14-15 luglio 2007 (Incontri insulari, I), a cura di F.
Cenerini e P. Ruggeri, Carocci Roma 2008 (con la collaborazione di T. Pinna),
pp. 41-83
La romanizzazione dell’Ogliastra, in AA.VV., Ogliastra.
Antica cultura – nuova provincia, Storia e società, I, La storia, Zonza
editori, Nuove Grafiche Puddu, Ortacesus 2008, pp. 45- 63 (in collaborazione
con Paola Ruggeri).
Camillo Bellieni e la Sardegna romana, in Sesuja Vintannos.
Antologia della rivista a cura di Antonello Nasone in occasione dei Ventennale
della fondazione dell’Istituto di studi e ricerche Camillo Bellieni, Quaderni,,
5, Sassari 2009, pp. 135-171 (in collaborazione con P. Ruggeri);
La viabilità della Sardegna romana. Un
nuovo praetorium a Sas Presones di Rebeccu a nord della biforcazione
Turris-Olbia ?, in Palaià Filìa. Studi di topografia antica in onore
Giovanni Uggeri, a cura di Cesare Marangio e Giovanni Laudizi, Mario Congedo
editore, Galatina 2009, pp. 555-572 (in collaborazione con Paola Ruggeri).
La Sardegna dalle origini all’età vandalica nell’opera di
Giuseppe Manno, “Studi Sardi”, XXXIV, 2009, pp. 271-300.
Il Gabinetto archeologico e il Museo dell’Università
nell’Ottocento, in Storia dell’Università di Sassari, a cura di A.
Mattone, II, Ilisso, Nuoro 2010, pp. 188-205
Decolonizzazione, identità nazionale e patrimonio: la memoria
del passato pre-islamico nei paesi del Maghreb, in Sviluppo e saperi
nel Mediterranea, a cura di Romina Deriu, Atti a partire dal Convegno “Saperi
meditrerranei e sviluppo. Tra memoria e trasmissione”, Sassari, 2-3 aprile
2009, Francio Angeli, estr. anticipato, pp. 3-32.
Urbes et rura. Città e campagna nel territorio oristanese
in età romana, in Oristano e il suo territorio, 1, Dalla preistoria
all’alto Medioevo, a cura di Pier Giorgio Spanu e Raimondo Zucca, (in
collaborazione con Raimondo Zucca), Carocci, Roma 2011, pp. 411-601
In Sardinia tituli scribuntur et immagine sculpuntur,
in L’officina epigrafica romana, in ricordo di Giancarlo Susini, a
cura di A. Donati e Gabriella Poma, Fratelli Lega Editori, Faenza 2012, ISBN
978-88-7594-104-8 (in collaborazione con Raimondo Zucca), pp. 393-428
I paesaggi costieri della Neapolis dell’Africa Proconsolare e
della Neapolis della Sardinia, in Evoluzione delle civiltà lungo le vie del
Mediterraneo. Un modello di sviluppo ecocompatibile per la salvaguardia del
mare e la valorizzazione della fascia costiera, XXXIII Forum Interdistrettuale
della Fascia Costiera Ligure-Tosco-Laziale e della Sardegna, Distretto 2080
Rotary International, Studio Stampa Nuoro, 2012 (in collaborazioone con
Raimondo Zucca), pp. 25-36
Patrimonio identitario e fallimento del regionalismo: gli
scritti giornalistici di Giovanni Lilliu, in La ricerca come passione.
Studi in onore di Lorenzo Del Piano, a cura di Francesco Atzeni, Carocci
editore, Roma 2012, pp. 481- 495
D’Uchi Maius à Rome en passant par Pouzzoles. A propos de
nouvelles découvertes épigraphiques à Henchir Douamis, en Tunisie, inColons et
colonies dans le monde romain, Etudes réunies pae Ségolène Demougin et John
Sched (Collection der l’Ecole Française de Rome, 456), Roma 2012, ISBN
978-2-7283-0912-2, pp. 147-188 (in collaborazione con Mustapha Khanouss)
L’utilisation del’eau en Afrique du Nord
dans le passé, in A. Ibba, Ex oppida et mapalibus. Studi
sulle città e le campagne dell’Africa romana, con il contributo di Attilio
Mastino e Raimondo Zucca (Roma e i provinciali, 1), Sandhi, Ortacesus 2012, pp.
53-74 (in collaborazione con A. Ibba)
La pastorizia nel Nord Africa e in Sardegna in età romana, in A.
Ibba, Ex oppida et mapalibus. Studi sulle città e le campagne dell’Africa
romana, con il contributo di Attilio Mastino e Raimondo Zucca (Roma e i
provinciali, 1), Sandhi, Ortacesus 2012, pp.75-99 (in collaborazione con A.
Ibba)
Communautés urbanes en Afrique Méditerranéenne à l’époque
romaine, in A. Ibba, Ex oppida et mapalibus. Studi sulle città e le
campagne dell’Africa romana, con il contributo di Attilio Mastino e Raimondo
Zucca (Roma e i provinciali, 1), Sandhi, Ortacesus 2012, (in collaborazione con
A. Ibba e R. Zucca), pp. 133-147
Tripolitania e Cirenaica: un futuro per il patrimonio,
in For the Preservation of the cultural Heritage in Libya. A Dialogue among Institutions,
Proceedings of Conference, 12-2 July 2001, Caserta (Kyrana, Libya in the ancient
World, 1), Pisa-Roma, Fabrizio Serra editore 2012, pp. 25-26
Absentat(us) Sardinia.Nota sulla missione di un distaccamento
della II Cohors vigilum Philippiana presso il procuratore P.
Aelius Valensil 28 maggio 245 d.C., in L’Africa Romana,XIX. Trasformazioni
dei paesaggi del potere nell’Africa settentrionale fino alla fine del mondo
antico, a cura di M.B. Cocco, A. Gavini, A. Ibba, Carocci, Roma 2012, pp.
2211-2224; anche in Ruri mea vixi colendo. Studi in onore di Franco
Porrà raccolti da A.M. Corda e P.G. Floris, Sanluri 2012, pp. 339-352
La constitutio del Forum
Traiani in Sardinia nel 111 a.C., “Journal of Ancient Topography
– Rivista di Topografia antica”, XXII, 2012, edited by Giovanni Uggerri, Mario
Congedo editore, pp. 31-50 (in collaborazione con Raimondo Zucca)
La “Pax Flavia” dopo il “Bellum Iudaicum”: una “evocatio”
? in Historica e philologica, Studi in onore di Raimondo
Turtas a cura di M. G. Sanna, AM&D Edizioni, Cagliari 2012 (Collana
Agorà), pp. 25-47
L'imperatore pacator orbis, in Pignora
amicitiae. Scritti di storia antica e storiografia offerti a Mario
Mazza a cura di M. Cassia, C., Giuffrida, C. Molè, A, Pinzone, III
(Sstoria e politica 99), Catania 2012 (2014), pp. 139-212, in collaborazione
con Antonio Ibba.
Teaching
and research activity of Attilio Mastino
Professor of Roman History, Department
of History, Social Sciences and Education at University of Sassari, Viale
Umberto 52, 07100 Sassari
Tel.: 079 2065203, fax 079 20965241,
e-mail: mastino@uniss.it
1. Attilio
Mastino, born in Bosa (NU) on 29th July 1949. Resident
in Sassari, Via Zanfarino n.58, Tel.: 079 270035
Prof. Mastino is Professor of Roman
History at University of Sassari where he was also History Department Director
(1991-1995), Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy (1995-1998),
President of the Bachelor Course in Science of Cultural Heritage, Vice-Rector
with responsibility for budget, evaluation and research (1997-2009). He is
Co-ordinator on the PhD course “Archaeology, History and Human Sciences”.
He graduated in Classics at the
University of Cagliari with honours and praise and the declaration
of dignity of print for his theses in Latin Epigraphy (1972): he
was a student of Giovanni Lilliu, Piero Meloni and Giovanna Sotgiu, but also of
Guido Clemente, Enzo Degani, Bruno Luiselli and Mario Torelli.
He subsequently achieved a diploma in professional
journalistic culture with a thesis on Journalism in ancient Rome at the
triennial Superior School of Journalism at the university of Urbino with the
highest marks and praise, discussing a thesis on the Acta urbis with
Prof. Giuseppe Zeccaroni (1975). He, therefore, obtained the diploma with the
School of specialisation in Sardinian Studies at the University of Cagliari,
with the maximum of votes and praise, with a thesis on the Antiquities of
Punic-Roman Sardinia (1978).
Rector of the University of Sassari
between 2009 and 2014.
Professor of Roman History at the degree
course in Cultural Heritage at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of
Sassari (now the Department of History, Social Sciences and Education).
Vice-Rector (with responsibility for
budget and research) at the same University from November 1997 to May 2008.
He attended the seminars of epigraphy
and computer science at the Centre Pierre Paris to Bordeaux (PETRAE system) and
has carried out research work at the Centre G. Glotz Université de Paris
I-Sorbonne, at the École Normale
Supérieure in Paris with the CNR scholarship, Senior Fellowships Scheme (under
the direction of André Chastagnol, Marcel Le Glay, René Rebuffat) and at the
Institut National du Patrimoine of Tunis (in collaboration with Azedine
Beschaouch e M’hamed Fantar). He also received a scholarship from the Italian
Institute for Africa.
2. He
has lent and currently provides the following services at the University:
- Scholar of Latin Epigraphy
(Faculty of Arts, Cagliari), from 1.12.73 to 30.11.74;
- Contract Professor at the
Institute for Ancient History at the University of Cagliari (Latin Epigraphy
and Professorships of Greek and Roman Antiquities), from 1.12.74 to 31.12.80;
- Assistant Role Lecturer of
Roman History at the Faculty of Education at the University of Sassari, from
1.1.81 to 20.3.83;
- Associate Lecturer of Roman
History at the Faculty of Education at the University of Sassari from 21.3.83
to 21.6.86;
- Associate Professor starting from
21.3.86 to 30.10.90;
- Extraordinary Professor of
first degree of Latin Epigraphy and Antiquities at the Faculty of Education,
University of Sassari, from 1.11.90 to 30.10.94 (winner of the competition to
the chairs of full professor, Ancient History group, in service from
18th May 1990 with power from 1st November 1990) even after the
conversion into Faculty of Arts (from 1st November 1992);
- Professor of Latin Epigraphy at
the Faculty of Humanities of Sassari University, starting from
1st November 1994 (Professor of Roman History in the same University from
1st November 1998; subject sector L-ANT/03-Roman History according to the
Decree of the Rector No.360 of 30.3.2001). SSD L-ANT/03, competition sector
10/D1. Then, later, in the Department of History, Social Sciences and
Education.
3. Pro-Rector
of the University of Sassari from 1st November 1997; re-appointed by
1st November 2000, then
re-confirmed from 1st November 2003 and 1st November 2006, with
responsibility for research, IT, evaluation and budget, who finally resigned in
May 2009.
Former Director of the Department of
History at the University of Sassari (from 1st November 1991 to
30th October 1995). He was a member of the Executive Committee of the
Department of History and was Head of the Ancient and Medieval section.
Former Director of the
Inter-departmental Centre of Studies on the Roman provinces of the University
of Sassari (from 1st November 1990 for two years).
Former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
at the University of Sassari from 1st November 1995 to 30th October
1998.
Already Co-ordinator of Class 13
(Science of Cultural Heritage) and degree courses in Historical-Artistic and
Archaeological Cultural Heritage, Archives and Libraries Cultural Heritage,
Social Anthropology Cultural Heritage at the University of Sassari (2001-02).
Founder and President of the degree
course in Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the Faculty of Humanities at the
University of Sassari from 1st November 1998 to 30th September 2001;
former President of the University Diploma for Cultural Assets Operator
(1999-2002).
A member of the internal Assessment
Committee of Sassari University, nominated through rectoral Decree No. 217 of
13.6.1995, with reference to the management year 1994.
Member of the Visiting Committee for the
biennial evaluation of the research activity of groups from the Université
Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3.
Referee on the
project Limina/Limites. Archéologies,
histoires, îles et frontières du Méditerranée (365-1556).
Chairman of the University Committee for
research evaluation during a period of three years starting from July 2004;
also Chairman of various other committees at the University of Sassari (Budget,
Visiting Professors, Research, etc.).
Chairman of the Joint Committee,
University of Sassari-National Research Council in 2003.
Co-ordinator of an inter-University
ERASMUS program (Sassari, Bologna, Coimbra, Bordeaux, Valladolid, Zaragoza,
Corfu, Liege) 1988-2001.
Former member of the faculty for the
PhD The epigraphy of North Africa and Sardinia set up at the
University of Cagliari (XIV cycle).
Co-ordinator of the PhD The
Mediterranean in ancient times: History and Cultures in competition
between the Universities of Sassari, Cagliari, Cassino, Viterbo, Bologna
between 1998 and 2006 (XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI cycle).
Member of the board of the European
School of Doctorate History, Cultures, Literatures of the
Mediterranean since 2006.
Co-ordinator of the College PhD
Board Archaeology, History, Social Sciences of the University of
Sassari, for the period 2015-18.
Participation in national commissions
for full Professor competitions (Catania Section I, 1999 Rome Tor Vergata
session III, 2001 Cagliari, session III, 2002); for Associate Professor
(1997-98 national competition, Cagliari II session 2002 Perugia 2006); for
Researcher (Sassari, Cagliari twice, Second University of Rome Tor Vergata,
Messina); for re-appointment of Professor and Associate Professor as admission
to PhD courses (Pisa, Perugia, Cagliari, Sassari), also in co-supervision (Bordeaux-Sassari,
Aix-en-Procence-Sassari, Corte-Sassari) in boards for examinations for the
award of the title of Doctor of Philosophy (Perugia, Messina, Cagliari, Pisa).
4. He
has taken care of the promotion of a series of conferences devoted to Roman Africa,
with the participation of scholars from various Mediterranean countries,
overseeing the publication of its acts (10 volumes, years 1983-92). This was
under the patronage of the Association Internationale d'Epigraphie Grecque
et latine, in collaboration with the Institut National d'Archéologie et d'Art
de Tunis (later Institut National du Patrimoine), the Institut National des
Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine in Rabat, the Centre "L'Année
Epigraphique-Fonds Pflaum" in Paris, with the Centre de recherche sur
l'armée romaine et les provinces of Paris and with other scientific
institutions in Italy.
Starting from the 11th volume, he has
retained the Presidency of the Scientific Committee of Roman Africa, though the
acts are carried out by colleagues and students. In this framework of
interests he has often been to Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Morocco and also to
Paris (at L'Année Épigraphique and Ecole Normale Supérieure), as well as to
many other Italian libraries. He has visited the most important archaeological
museums and major Roman cities in the Maghreb (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria,
Morocco). He has published works of synthesis on the epigraphic research in
Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, co-ordinating initiatives at international level.
He was the promoter of the
Inter-departmental Centre of Studies on Roman provinces of the University of
Sassari, which he directed for two years since its establishment in November
1990: among the aims of the Centre figure the promotion of historical and
archaeological research on the Roman provinces of Latin language, through the
application of experimental automatic techniques for data processing.
5. Prof.
Mastino has been Vice-Director of ISPROM in Sassari (Institute of Studies and
Projects for the Medirranean) and is, to this day, Treasurer and Assistant
Secretary of the Comité pour les études méditerranéennes.
He has taken part in numerous
archaeological excavations in Sardinia and North Africa (among others: Cornus,
S. Caterina di Pittinuri, starting from 1978; Bosa, 1982-83).
He directs an Italian mission on
epigraphic research at Uchi Maius in Tunisia since 1994, which was divided into
a series of campaigns, with the participation of PhD students, research
fellows, students of the University of Sassari, Cagliari, Pisa, Genoa, Venice,
Madrid, Barcelona, Tunis.
6. In
the presence of the Minister Prof. Antonio Ruberti, he held the opening lecture
for the beginning of the 430th Academic Year at the University of Sassari
(11th January 1992) on Illiteracy and resistance in Sardinian
Barbaria.
On 15th October 1998, he was
awarded a gold medal for his work as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities in the
previous three years.
With the volume The Chart of
Esterzili: the conflict between shepherds and farmers in Sardinian Barbaria,
Conference Acts, Esterzili June 6th 1992, curated by A. Mastino, edited by
Gallizzi, Sassari 1992, he won the 1995 edition of the Literary Award
"Ogliastra".
The Vice-President of the Union of Arab
historians (Ittihad al-Mu ' arrihin al-Arab) prof. Béji Mohamed Ben Mami,
Director-General of the Institut National du Patrimoine de Tunisie, conferred
him the high “Honour of the Arabic Historian” with gold medal (Wisam al-Mu '
arrih al-arabi).
In the Research section, he won the
15th Edition of the Art Culture Science Anassilaos 2003 (Reggio Calabria,
15th November 2003). He was awarded the trophy Trofeo Città di
Ozieri at the 54th Edition of the "Premio Ozieri for Sardinian
Literature" (September 28, 2013) established for a Sardinian personality
who particularly excelled in the promotion of culture and art.
7. He
is a member of numerous International Scientific Societies and Academies:
- Corresponding Fellow of
the Real Academia de la Historia di Madrid, Nuevo Rezado, Madrid;
- Member of the Reial
Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, C. Bisbe Caçador, 3 (Plaza Sant Just)
08002 Barcelona;
- Fellow of the Association
pour l’antiquité tardive, Bibliothèque d’Histoire des Religions de
l’Université de Paris IV, Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue Serpente, FR –
75006 Paris;
- Fellow of the Association
des amis du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientiphiques et des Societés
Savantes, 110 Rue de Grenelle Paris;
- Member of the French-Italian
Committee which organises the Rencontres sur l’épigraphie du monde
romain (2004-2013);
- Treasurer of the Comité
pour les études Mediterranéennes, Piazza d’Italia Sassari ;
- Member of the Société
d’étude du Maghreb préhistorique, antique et médiéval, SEMPAM, Ecole Normale
Supérieure, Rue d’Ulm, Paris;
- Member of the AOURAS,
Société d’études et de recherches sur l’Aurès antique, Paris, 104 Bd de la
Reine 78000 Versailles;
- Fellow of the Association
Algérienne pour la Sauvegarde et la Promotion du Patrimoine Archéologique
AASPPA, Librairie des Beaux-arts, 28 rue Didouche Mourad Alger ;
- Fellow of the Association
des Amis de la Mémoire de la Terre de Tataouine, Tataoune
- Fellow of the Association
internationale d’épigraphie grecque et latine, Eötvös-Loránd-Universität
Lehrstuhl für Archäologie der Antike Institut für Archäologiewissenschaften
Piarista Köz 1, HU-1052 Budapest;
- Member of the Istituto italiano per l’Africa e
l’Oriente (fino al 2011);
- Honorary Member of
the International Commission for the History of Representative and
Parliamentary Institutions, London;
- Chairman of the International
Scientific Committee of L’Africa romana since 1983;
- Was Member of Committees of
Honour and of Scientific Committees in national and international conventions.
Chairman of the Committee of Honour in the 8th International Convention of
Punic-Phoenician Studies (Carbonia-S. Antioco ottobre 2013);
- Has been a Member of the
Scientific Committee which sponsored the XI International Congress of Greek and
Latin Epigraphy, Roma, 18-24 settembre 1997;
- Member of the Scientific
Comittee of Laboratorio di studi e ricerche sulle antiche province
Danubiane of the University of Ferrara;
- Fellow of the Institute of
Study and Projects for the Mediterranean, Sassari.
8. Magazines and Series :
- Co-director with Angela Donati e
Maria Bollini of the publication Epigraphica, rivista internazionale di
epigrafia since 2010, from Number LXXII;
- Member of the Editorial Board on
important national and international magazines and series; also member of the
Scientific Committee for the digital magazine ArcheoArte; member of the
Steering Committee for the publication Cooperazione Mediterranea, ISPROM
(2000-2010). Since 2005 he is part of the Consejo Asesor of the magazine Caesaraugusta (Zaragoza)
and from 2008 of the Sylloge Epigraphica Barcinonensis; he is also a
member of the Scientific Committee for the magazine Sardinia, Corsica et
Baleares Antiquae, part of the series Tharros Felix;
- Member of the Scientific
Committee for the magazine Rationes Rerum, Rivista di Filologia e
storia ;
- Member of the Comité
Scientifique for the magazine Ikosim, published by AASPPA, Association
Algerienne pour la sauvegarde et la promotion du patrimoine archéologique di
Algeri;
- Already constituent member of
the Scientific Council of the Association internazionale pour la coopération,
le développement et la sécurité euro-méditerranéenne, STRADEMED; currently, and
since 2004, member of the Board of Directors of SECOMED-Paris, chaired by Ahmed
Sid Ahmed;
- Member of the Committee for
Supplements to the Corpus of Greek and Latin inscriptions at
the Unione Accademia Nazionale, in substitution of the passed away Prof.
Margherita Guarducci (since 13th Dicember 1999); member of the Scientific
Committee ofSupplementa Italica e Supplementa
Italica-Imagines in the Ancient World, directed by Serena Ensoli;
- Head Editor of the publication
JIDC, The Journal of Infection in developing countries, Ed. Time in Jazz,
Berchidda, starting from Vol. 3, No. 3, April 2009 ;
- Member of the Management
Committee for the digital magazine Diritto@storia;
- Constituent of the Scientific
Committee for the Series KYPANA, Libya;
- For 20 years he directed,
together with Antonello Mattone and Giuseppe Meloni, the series of Publications
of the Department of History (until 2011) and the Centre of Inter-disciplinary
Studies on Roman Provinces (until 2012); he directs, together with Mustapha
Khanussi, the series Uchi Maius; he also directs, together with Antonio
Corda, the series Studies of Ancient History and Archaeology.
- Scientific Director and Chairman
of the Scientific Committee for the series Patrimonio Culturale della
Sardegna for Sardinia Region;
- Redactor of
the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and roman World, Edited by Richard
J.A. Talbert, Princeton University Press, Princeton e Oxford 2000;
- Redactor for some Italian
Universities (Siena), for the CNRS-Agence nationale de la Recherche.
9. Scientific
Activity
His research interests are focused on
the sources, with a particular emphasis on the literary and epigraphic ones, on
issues of institutional, demographic, prosopographic, social and military type.
He has studied the history and epigraphy of ancient Sardinia (with new
discoveries in Turris Libisonis, Austis, Cornus, Nora, Tharros, Neapolis, Forum
Traiani, Uselis, Bosa, Olbia, Luguido, Torralba, Viddalba, Valentia, Rebeccu,
Barbaria, Gallura e Ogliastra), giving special attention to the boundary stones
of Cuglieri for the Euthichiani-Giddilitani-Uddadaddar Numisiarum, Molaria for
the Ilienses, Esterzili for the Galillenses and Patulcenses Campani, Sorabile
for Celesitani e Cusnitani, Montes Insani for the Sardi Pelliti, Monti per i
Balari, etc. He has also produced original documents from proconsular Africa
(Uchi Maius, Uchi Minus, Thugga, Bulla Regia, Numluli, Mactaris, Thibaris,
Ammaedara, etc.) and from Mauretanie (Castellum Tamudense and Caesarea). He has
studied the epigraphy of Numidia (Cirta-Constantina), of Tripolitania in the
age of Severi, of Cirenaica (Berenice-Bengasi), of Corsica (i populi), of
Narbonense (Forum Iulii) and of Sicily (Trapani). He has revised many
inscriptions from Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco and has taken care of the Sirti
in Augustan age, of the Kings of Massinissa, Micipsa and Giugurta. As far as
urban areas are concerned, he has studied the Acta urbis, has started
studying the tabulae patronatus (Cupra Maritima) and has resumed
research on the agorà of the Italics in Delos. He is proceeding with
the revision of hundreds of epigraphic texts with the aid of laser scanner.
Special attention is devoted to rock epigraphy, to the birth of Latin
epigraphic culture in Africa, to military epigraphy, to border epigraphy and to
the instrumentum. More generally, he has devoted his studies to the
history of the Western Roman provinces, with a special eye to all the
transformation, continuity and cultural eredity phenomena. More recently he has
dealt with the new epigraphic discoveries in the Danubian provinces and in
Palestine in Flavian age. His major research works are about the Roman
Emperors: Nero, Vespasian and Titus, Faustina, Lucilla, Commodus, Septimius
Severus, Caracalla and Geta, Diocletian, Constantine; he is specialised in
imperial titling from Augustus until the end of the ancient world, with a focus
on the numbering of tribunicia powers and on the cosmocratic epithets in
inscriptions, in coins and in papyri. He has addressed the issue of production
and commerce in imperial age, of road conditions in Africa and Sardinia, of
fishing and of the main Mediterranean routes. His latest studies, still
ongoing, are devoted to classical myths and the children of Heracles; to the
“heroes” of the Greek and Latin tradition with reference to the discovery of
the Giants of Mont'e Prama (Giganti di Mont'e Prama) and to the news from
Aristotle on the ethnographic practice of therapeutic sleep in Sardinia towards
the end of the nuragic era; to the tradition of Ennio on Bellum
Sardum of 215 B.C. and to the historical figure of Hampsicora-Hampsagoras,
who was Hannibal's ally in Cato's Origines; to Massinissa and
Giugurta, King of Numidia; to the cult of martyrs between Sardinia and North
Africa; to the Classical legacy in Medieval times; to magic between Paganism
and Cristianity. He is currently re-editing the dedication epigraphy of
the Sardus Pater temple in Severian time. On the contemporary side,
he has studied the colonisation and de-colonisation in Maghreb and the theme of
the “Arab Springs”. He is preparing a volume on the history of the North Africa
in Roman age. Finally, he is the author of numerous studies on false
epigraphics and on the history of historiography (Giovanni Spano, Giuseppe
Manno, Theodor Mommsen, Antonio Mocci,. Ettore Pais, Camillo
Bellieni, Thomas Ashby, Enzo Cadoni, Robert J. Rowland jr., Giovanni Lilliu,
Piero Meloni, Lidio Gasperini, Giancarlo Susini, Marco Tangheroni, Giovanna
Sotgiu, Ercole Contu). He
has worked on several museum exhibits.
10. Recent
research work
- He takes part in the EDR-EAGLE project,
which stems from an agreement between the Department of History and the
University of Studies La Sapienza in Rome, and which has allowed
for approximately 1200 epigraphic texts from Sardinia to be transferred
to the national database. The EDR-EAGLE is widely available on the web and it
is updated in real time.
- He headed a new campaign of
filing of inscriptions from Sardinia, agreed between the University of Sassari
and Cagliari, thanks to fundings from 2001-2003 PNR (FIRB art. 8: integrated
funds for basic research by MURST), with the project "literacy,
communication and transmission of the written word in Western Mediterranean.
From Classical to Medieval epigraphy: corpus of inscriptions: Greek, Roman, of
Medieval and Christian Sardinia and of Tunisia".
- In 2007 he co-ordinated the
project of the Sardinia Region "Corpus of Roman Antiquities and Early
Medieval Sardinia" which took into account 300 texts and for which the
filing was started according to the system developed by ICCD SIGEC. However,
its limits are represented, as well as by the absence of drawings, also by the
fact of using a filing system designed essentially for the archaeological
findings and hardly adaptable to inscriptions.
- Scientific Co-ordinator on the
research Project “New technologies applied to the epigraphic research: survey
and graphical representation, textual and prosopographic analysis of a
significant selection of inscriptions of ancient Sardinia” CRP 18053 (€
124.364,80), LR 7 August 2007, n. 7, Promotion of scientific research and of
technological innovation in Sardinia (Competition 2009).
- Scientific Co-ordinator on the
research Project “New technologies applied to the epigraphic research: survey
and graphical representation, textual and prosopographic analysis of a
significant selection of inscriptions of ancient Sardinia” J71J11000290007, LR
7 agosto 2007, n. 7, Promotion of scientific research and of technological
innovation in Sardinia (Competition 2012).
- Component of The Scientific
Committee of Archeomedsites, research ENPI CBC MED 2007-13 Ref. Number
III-B/4.3/1022. In collaboration with the Archaeological Superintendences of
Sardinia, he has an ongoing research on lapidary workshops in Sardinia, which
includes, among other things, the publication of the series Inscriptiones
Sardiniae, linked to the Supplementa italica.
Sassari,
October 2015