2012     
Topoi Excellence Cluster, Berlin, Visiting professor (April-June)

2011     
University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4), France, Full Professor of Roman History

2004 – 2008     
Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), Belgium, Visiting Professor for Classical Armenian

2004 – 2007     
University of Paris VIII, France, Visiting Professor of Ancient History

2001 – 2007     
University of Lecce, Italy, Full Professor of Roman History

07/1999     
Summer University, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Teacher at the Course "The Many Cultural Centers of the Early Medieval Oikoumene"

1998 – 2001     
University of Lecce, Italy, Associate Professor of Roman History

1993 – 2001     
University of Perugia, Italy, Lecturer of Roman History

1991     
University of Pisa, Ph.D. in Ancient History

1981     
University of Pisa, Italy M.A. in Archaeology

My research is centered on the section on ancient Armenia in the Geography of Strabo (XI, 14). My former experience allows me to approach an interdisciplinary research, in order to make the point on the kingdom of Greater Armenia (ca. 188 BCE – 428 CE). Presently, my main scientific concern is the redaction of a comprehensive history of the kingdom of Greater Armenia (Mec Hayk'), to be published by Princeton University Press. This book would not only make a case study of local history – still a missing item in present-day scholarship – but would also contextualise ancient Armenia within the continuum of a global history of Antiquity. The purpose of my stay in Berlin is to prepare a thorough analysis of Strabo's Armenian chapter, one of the main sources on the kingdom of Greater Armenia, giving valuable and unique information on the geography and the history of the country, and also on the geo-political setting of the country in the first half of the I century CE. The results of this research would be published as an independent paper, conceived as a 'spin-off' of the Princeton book, to be published in Daniela Dueck (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Strabo.

2013     
"Beobachtungen zur Inschrift von Maris, Casiti filius", in: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 185, 279-285.

M. Geller, G. Traina, "Tigranu, the Crown Prince of Armenia: Evidence from the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries", in: Klio 95, 447-454.

"Geografia dell’Impero", in: Costantino I. Enciclopedia costantiniana. Sulla figura e l’immagine dell’imperatore del cosiddetto Editto di Milano 313, I, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia italiana, Roma,b583-598.

"Mapping the world under Theodosius II", in: C. Kelly (Ed.), Theodosius II. Rethinking the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 155-171.

2012     
"Tigran il Grande d'Armenia e la Giudea", in: G. Urso (Ed.), Iudaea socia - Iudaea capta. Atti del convegno internazionale, Cividale del Friuli, 22 – 24 settembre 2011, Pisa, Edizioni ETS, 79-88.

2011 – 2012     
"Letteratura classica e spazio geografico partico: alcune osservazioni", in: Geographia antiqua 20-21, 119-122.