Biographical profile
- Director of the Historical and Legal Department – University of San Marino
- President of the CO.IN.FO Consortium
- Vice-President of the Steering Committee of the Petruzzelli Lyrical Symphony Foundation
- Regent at the Superior Council of the Bank of Italy - Institute of Bari
From 2014 to 2026: Rector of the University of the Republic of San Marino
From November 2006 to November 2013: Rector of the University of Bari "Aldo Moro".
From 2008 to 2013: Vice President of the CRUI President of juries for the awarding of literary prizes and institutions for the promotion of culture and enhancement of the territory ("Festival dei Sensi", "National Prize of the City of Adelfia", etc.) .
Full professor of "Exegesis of the sources of Greek and Roman history" and "Classical philology" at the University of Bari "Aldo Moro".
He mainly deals with: Greek and Roman historiography, sociology of the Greek and Roman world, studies on the modern historical novel with a classical setting, classical polemology, ancient oratory.
He is co-director of the series "Mneme" of the publishing house Palomar (Bari).
Main publications
- Onasander. The general. Command Operations Manual; Bari, Daedalus 2008.
- Xenophon, Hipparchicus. Cavalry Commander's Manual; intro transl. and CP notes; in the appendix: Joly de Maizeroy, General framework of the Greek cavalry (transl. introduction and notes by CP), Bari, Edipuglia 2001.
- War stories. Figures of narration in the Stories of Thucydides; in: Ancient science in the modern age. Theory and images, Bari, Cacucci 2012.
- Brigands and Adventurers: Incursions into the Seas of the Ancients. In: A. Uricchio (cur.), New piracies and domestic and international legal systems.
- Proceedings of the conference held in Taranto on 16 and 17 June 2009, Bari, Cacucci 2011. Words and weapons.
- Examples of communication and intelligence in the ancient world. In: History writings for Mario Pani, Bari, Edipuglia 2011, pp. 385-394.
- Women in the history of medicine, «Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine», 6.1, 2011, pp. 60-63
- The greatest legend of all time was true, in: Anonymous, Romanzo di Alessandro, edited by C. Franco, with a note by L. Canfora, Palermo, Sellerio 2005.
- Preface to F. Vegezio Renato, The art of Roman warfare, edited by M. Formisano, Milan, Rizzoli 2003.
- Cornelia the Matron, in Roman Women, and. by A. Fraschetti, Chicago-London, University of Chicago Press 2002.