Davide Morelli is a research fellow in Roman History at the University of Milan. His research interests include republican Roman history, the history of Roman diplomacy, ancient military history, Roman material culture and Roman-Italic relations. His publications include: Il ruolo della diplomazia nella conquista romana dell’Italia. Cronologia e contesto storico (338-270 a.C.), Bari 2024 (forthcoming); The battle of Sentinum: its location in a recent hypothesis, in “Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica”, CLI (2023), pp. 88-103; The family traditions of the gens Marcia between the fourth and the third centuries b.C., in “The Classical Quarterly”, LXXI.1 (2021), pp. 189-199.