David Miguel Soares Mesquita (8B12-6D7A-A5A0)

Curriculum Vitae

I am a PhD candidate at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and a researcher at the Centre for Classical Studies as part of the investigation group EPISTEME: Portuguese Early Modern Science. My ongoing interdisciplinary project (Philosophy, History of Medicine, Classical and Renaissance Studies), titled "Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro as a 'Liber scriptor neque ex Galeni servis' in the controversies of his time", has been awarded a grant by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and is being supervised by Professor Bernardo Mota. I earned my BA in Classical Studies from the University of Lisbon in 2018 and, in 2019, I was honoured with the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Scholarship (EMJMDS), participating in the Master CLE (Cultures littéraires européennes) program for the 2019-2021 intake. Since 2021, I have held a double MA degree in Classical Studies, European Literary Cultures (University of Lisbon, 20/20) and Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, and Linguistics (University of Bologna, 110/110 cum laude). I finished both degrees with the highest marks, defending my thesis in front of an international jury. I've earned my master's degree under the guidance of Professors Rodrigo Furtado & André Simões (U. Lisbon) and Professor Francesco Santi (U. Bologna & SISMEL), with a dissertation on Medieval Latin Philology entitled "Winter is coming. Homilies and Homiliaries: analysis of a 12th-century winter homiliary in the BML (Plut. 16.41).", also written for SISMEL's (Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino) ROME project (Repertorio degli Omeliari del Medioevo). Between 2018 and 2020, and again since 2023, I have been an editorial assistant for 'Euphrosyne ¿ Revista de Filologia Clássica.' Additionally, in 2019, I co-edited the fifth volume of eClassica with Professor André Simões. My research interests include the History of Medicine; History of Science; Medieval Latin literature; Renaissance literature; Religious literature; homiliaries; textual transmission; codicology; ecdotics.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: David Miguel Soares Mesquita

Citation names

David M.S. Mesquita

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 8B12-6D7A-A5A0
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4082-3015

Websites

https://flul.academia.edu/DavidMesquita (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology
Humanities - Other Humanities
Humanities - Languages and Literatures

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Italian	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Latin		Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Ancient Greek (until 1553)		Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
German	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023 - 2027 Ongoing	Estudos Clássicos (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro as a "Liber scriptor, neque ex Galeni servis" in the controversies of his time" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2019/09 - 2021/06/28 Concluded	Estudos Clássicos (Mestrado) Major in Filologia Latina Medieval Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "Winter is coming. Homilies and Homiliaries: analysis of a 12th century winter homiliary in the BML (Plut. 16.41)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	20
2019/09 - 2021/06/28 Concluded	Italianistica, culture letterarie europee, scienze linguistiche (Master) Major in Filologia Latina Medieval Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Lingue Letterature e Culture Moderne, Italy "Winter is coming. Homilies and Homiliaries: analysis of a 12th century winter homiliary in the BML (Plut. 16.41)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	110 e lode
2014/09 - 2018/06/22 Concluded	Estudos Clássicos (Licenciatura) Major in Património Clássico da Cultura Europeia - Cultura Clássica Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	18
2016 - 2016 Concluded	Literatura e Religião (Outros) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/09/01 - Current	Euphrosyne's Editorial Assistant	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
2018 - 2020	Euphrosyne's Editorial Assistant	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/10 - 2021	Professor de Português para Estrangeiros	Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa, Portugal
	Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019/06	Professor de Latim	Universidade para a Maturidade de Santa Maria de Belém - Lisboa, Portugal
	Universidade para a Maturidade de Santa Maria de Belém - Lisboa, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/02/01 - Current	Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro as a "Liber scriptor, neque ex Galeni servis" in the controversies of his time 2022.10331.BD PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2019 - 2021	Erasmus+: Erasmus Mundus Scholarship 20181422 Master Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Università di Bologna, Italy	European Union

Outputs

Publications

Book review	David M.S. Mesquita. "[Review of] ZACHARY GUILIANO, The Homiliary of Paul the Deacon: Religious and Cultural Reform in Carolingian Europe, Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (SERMO: Studies on Patristic, Medieval, and Reformation Sermons and Preaching. Volume 16)". (2023): https://www.brepols.net/series/EUPHR.
Journal issue	Tim Denecker; Fernandes, Vanessa; David M.S. Mesquita; Joana Augusto Veiga; Anjos, Duarte; Matafome, Ana. "Euphrosyne - Journal for Classical Philology (51)". Euphrosyne - Journal for Classical Philology 51 (2024): https://www.brepolsonline.net/toc/euphr/2021/49. In press • Coeditor David M.S. Mesquita; André Simões (B515-491D-5908). "I Congresso Internacional Inovação Docente: Instrumentos e Ferramentas na Investigação das Línguas Clássicas". eClassica 5 (2019): http://www.tmp.letras.ulisboa.pt/eclassica-nova-serie/2815-eclassica-5-2019. Published • Coeditor
Newsletter article	David M.S. Mesquita. "Cosmological Resonances of Bodily Fluids: Sweat in the Works of Estêvão Rodrigues De Castro (1559-1638)", Forma Fluens, 2023, https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/blog/forma-fluens/castro-sweat/.
Translation	William J. Dominik. Os Estudos Clássicos Enquanto Campo de Pesquisa. Estudos Clássicos: Questões epistemológicas, teóricas e analíticas. 2022. Accepted David M.S. Mesquita; André Rodrigues. Instructio peregrinatoris (1759), de E. A. Nordblad, sob os auspícios da Academia Régia, presidida por Lineu. Serviço contratado pelo Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (CFCUL). 2019. Submitted

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/04/04	Penelope from fado-singer to the scene of San Remo	International conference CHORUS 2024: Entertainment and Popular Culture AGPRD (Oxford), University of Nantes (Nantes, France)
2024/03/08	(Re)shaping and Transcending Classical Drama: Translations and Rewritings in the Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Arcadia Ulyssiponensis	Early Modern Translations and the Classics University of Princeton; University of Oxford (New Jersey, United States)
2023/12/05	Sumite materiam uestris, qui scribitis, aequam uiribus: traduzir Horácio no século XVIII	VII Colóquio Internacional A Literatura Clássica ou os Clássicos na Literatura: Presenças Clássicas nas Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/10/20	Unveiling the Mysteries of Nature: Pliny’s Influence on Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro (1559-1638)	International Conferences on Pliny the Elder on Medicine, Magic, and Religion National Museum of Natural History and Science, School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/09/19	Il cosmos e la natura del sudore in Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro (1559-1638)	In flore novo. Incontro internazionale dei dottorandi in Studi Umanistici (Decennale 2013-2023) Università di Bari (Monte Sant'Angelo, Italy)
2023/07/14	Ordering the Macrocosm & Microcosm: A Reflection on the Sudoris Gradus of Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro (1559-1638)	Intensity and the Grades of Nature Heat, Colour, and Sound in the Ordering of Pre-Modern Cosmos: 1200-1600 Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (Pisa, Italy)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/05/23 - 2023/05/26	International Conference "The Road goes ever on and on: Commemorating J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)" (2023/05/23 - 2023/05/26) Conference (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de História, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2019/04/11 - 2019/04/12	Staff - Gynecia - 1.º ciclo de conferências	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
2017/12/04 - 2017/12/06	Staff - IV Colóquio Internacional: A Literatura Clássica ou os Clássicos na Literatura Portuguesa: Presenças Clássicas nas Literaturas de Línguas Portuguesa	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
2015/06/29 - 2015/07/03	Officina Romanorum MMXV: Organizado pelo Centro de Estudos Clássicos da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
2015/06/11 - 2015/06/12	Staff - Cartulaires in Medieval Europe. Texts and Contexts, International Conference, Lisbon, Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo.	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
2014/09/24 - 2014/09/26	XIV A.D. SAECVLVM AVGVSTVM. The Age of Augustus Congress	XIV A.D. SAECVLVM AVGVSTVM. The Age of Augustus Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/06/19 - 2023/07/17	Summer Course - Introduction to Latin	Introduction to Latin	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2018	Excellentiae Charta Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2017	Prémios FLUL Alumni / Grupo Almedina Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Grupo Almedina, Portugal

Title

2023	Santorio Fellow Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance, Italy

Other distinction

2023	Bolsa de Mérito Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior, Portugal