02/2025 – 06/2025
Short-Term Contract Teacher of Latin, Greek and Italian; Educandato Statale "Collegio Uccellis"; Udine, Italy

09/2024 – 12/2024
Predoctoral Scholarship of BerGSAS, ALT program; Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Klassische Philologie.
Title of dissertation: "From Mistra to Italy. Scholarly Practices and Cultural Transfer in Light of Sign and Text".
Supervisor: PD Dr. Roberto Lo Presti

10/2024 – 10/2024
"Griechische Handschriftenkunde und Editorik. Herbstschule des Zentrums Grundlagenforschung Alte Welt"; Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)

04/2024 – 06/2024
DAAD Scholarship "Research Grants - Short-Term Grants, 2024"; Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Klassische Philologie.
Title of dissertation: "From Venice to Berlin: Research Paths amongst Renaissance Greek Scribes and Manuscripts".
Supervisor: PD Dr. Roberto Lo Presti

01/2024 – 03/2024
Erasmus+ Traineeship; Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW), Project "Galen als Vermittler, Interpret und Vollender der antiken Medizin"

10/2021 – 10/2023
Master Degree in Archaeology and Classical Cultures, Historical and Philological-Literary Curriculum; Università degli Studi di Udine, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici e del Patrimonio Culturale.
Title of dissertation: "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

10/2021 – 10/2023
Excellence School di Toppo Wassermann Superiore Universitaria (SSU); Università degli Studi di Udine

11/2022 – 09/2023
University Teaching Assistant (beginners' Latin course); Università degli Studi di Udine

04/2023 – 06/2023
Thesis Research Mobility - European Mobility; Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Klassische Philologie04/2023  06/2023

07/2018 – 07/2021
Bachelor of Arts Degree, Classics Curriculum; Università degli Studi di Udine, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici e del Patrimonio Culturale.
Title of dissertation: "Il contributo dei papiri al testo e alla storia della tradizione del romanzo Calliroe di Caritone di Afrodisia".
Supervisor: prof. Fabio Vendruscolo

From Mistra to Italy. Scholarly Practices and Cultural Transfer in Light of Signs and Texts

My research project investigates the cultural activity of Byzantine scribes and scholars who were trained in Mistra at George Gemistos Pletho's school from the 1430s to the 1460s and, after the Turkish conquest of Morea in 1460, moved 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 Mistra and these personalities, including the still anonymous ones, will be reconstructed by the direct analysis of manuscripts and archival documents from a philological, paleographical and codicological point of view. I will also focus on the spread of Greek culture in the West during the 15th century, by exploring the cultural impact of these figures when moving from the Peloponnese to Italy, as well as the philosophical and intellectual influence they had on Italian Renaissance.