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 a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in Classics and an S.T.D. from the Istituto Patristico ‘Augustinianum’ in Patristics. He teaches at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania and writes occasionally on Substack.

Academic Writing

“Recycling the cycle: the De arithmetica in Augustine’s De libero arbitrio,” in Journal of Early Christian Studies 35.1 (2027, forthcoming).

“Las disciplinas de Agustín y la unidad del ‘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

Co-Redemptrix, Wayfare (2026)

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

Relic, New Verse Review (2025)

Harrowing, Empty House Press (2025)

Tomatoes, Poetess, Dormition, Trampoline (2025)

Baptism, Ekstasis (2024)