My research interests lie in the field of the Historical Linguistics and focus on four related topics.

1) Indo-European languages, especially the languages of ancient Italy, with a focus on the Oscan; in this field, I worked on Sabellic inscriptions, analyzing them from the linguistic, historical, cultural and historiographical perspective (https://www.prin-italia-antica.unifi.it). In particular, my book (2013) is an edition of the corpus of Oscan curse tablets. 

2) Ancient aggressive magic, especially investigated on the basis of Greek, Latin and Oscan curse tablets (https://www.progettomagia.unifi.it). 

3) Ferdinand de Saussure and the Geneva School of Linguistics; I worked on the manuscripts concerning the Historical Linguistics and on the edition of unpublished ones (see my books published in 2013 and 2017).

4) Digital Humanities. I worked on the development of digital tools for the study of ancient texts. In particular, I’m working on the development of CRMtex, an extension of CIDOC CRMcreated to support the study of ancient documents by identifying relevant textual entities and by modelling the scientific process related with the investigation of texts (from inscription to modern manuscripts) on the base of a semiotic analysis (http://www.cidoc-crm.org/crmtex/).

Location

Firenze

Disciplines

• Digital Humanities
• Humanities
• Languages
• Linguistics

Affiliation

Università degli Studi di Firenze