Education and training

09/2024 – 12/2024
Predoctoral Scholarship of the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS)
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; Institut für Klassische Philologie
Project: From Mistra to Italy. Scholarly Practices and Cultural Transfer in Light of Sign and Text;
Supervisor: Dr. Roberto Lo Presti

06/2024 – 06/2024
DAAD Scholarship ‘Research Grants – Short-Term Grants, 2024’
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; Institut für Klassische Philologie
Project: From Venice to Berlin: Research Paths amongst Renaissance Greek Scribes and Manuscripts; Supervisor: Dr.  Roberto Lo Presti

10/2021 – 10/2023
Master’s Degree in Archaeology and Classical Cultures; Historical and Philological-Literary Curriculum (LM-15).
110/110 cum laude
University of Udine (Italy); Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage Studies Thesis: Alla scuola di Manuele Crisolora.
Glosse latine al testo del Piscator di Luciano nel Vat. Urb. gr. 121; Supervisor: Prof. Fabio Vendruscolo; Co-Supervisor: Dr. Luigi Orlandi

04/2023 – 06/2023
Thesis Research – European Mobility
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; Institut für Klassische Philologie
Supervisor: Dr. Roberto Lo Presti

10/2021 – 10/2023
Excellence School di Toppo Wassermann
Superiore Universitaria (SSU)
University of Udine (Italy)

07/2018 – 07/2021
Bachelor of Arts Degree; Classics
Curriculum (L-10). 110/110 cum laude
University of Udine (Italy); Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage Studies
Thesis: Il contributo dei papiri al testo e alla storia della tradizione del romanzo Calliroe di Caritone di Afrodisia;
Supervisor: Prof. Fabio Vendruscolo

2013 – 2018
High School Diploma for Classical Studies
Liceo classico Jacopo Stellini, Udine (Italy)

Work experience

01/2024
Erasmus+ Traineeship
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
I worked on the project ‘Galen als Vermittler, Interpret und Vollender der antiken Medizin‘

11/2022 – 09/2023
Teaching Assistant
University of Udine (Italy)
I held classes and exercises for the beginners’ Latin course of 2022/2023 academic year

11/2022 – 03/2023
Internship

02/2020 – 05/2020
University of Udine – Liceo classico J. Stellini (Italy)
I attended and held Italian, Greek and Latin classes for high school students.

2019 – 2023
Teaching Experience
I have experience in providing private lessons in humanities subjects (Italian, Greek, Latin, English) for primary, middle and high school students.

From Mistra to Italy. Scholarly Practices and Cultural Transfer in Light of Sign and Text

My research project is focused on Greek and Italian Humanism and on the spread of Greek culture in the West during the 15th century. I investigate in particular the cultural activity of Byzantine scribes and learned men who were trained in Mistra at George Gemistos Pletho’s school from the 1430s and the 1460s and, after the Turkish conquest of Morea (1460), moved from Greece to Italy as refugees. The main goal of this research is to collect texts and copyists who can be referred to Pletho’s milieu in a monographic and systematic study. The connection between this context and these personalities, their lives and their contacts will be reconstructed by the direct analysis of their manuscripts, as well as archival documents, from a philological, codicological and palaeographical point of view.

Das Projekt wird durch ein PreDoc-Stipendium der BerGSAS/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin gefördert.