Silvia Orlandi is associate professor of Latin Epigraphy at the Sapienza University of Rome. For more than 20 years, she has been studying the epigraphic documents of Rome, with a special focus on the inscriptions of the Colosseum and the epigraphic manuscripts by Pirro Ligorio. Since 2012 she is co-responsible of the Epigraphic Database Roma (www.edr-edr.it). Since 2013 she has been the scientific coordinator of the European project EAGLE (www.eagle-network.eu).