I am currently a postdoctoral fellow (SNSF Ambizione: PZ00P1_201935) at Universität Zürich and I teach Medieval literature and philology at Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano). I also collaborate in the PRIN project LiLeSC (Books and Readers in Florence from the 13th to the 15th Century: the Library of Santa Croce, division Roma Tre), working on unpublished works by Servasanto da Faenza. As a member of SISMEL, I contribute to the drafting of bibliographical records in Medioevo Latino (MEL). My interdisciplinary research interests lie primarily in how Medieval sciences (especially optics) and literature intertwine, in Mendicant preaching and also in the relationship between texts and images.
Before joining the SGLP, I was a postdoctoral assistant at Istituto di studi italiani (USI), where I was also involved in the educational planning and organization of symposia of the Scuola dottorale confederale in Civiltà italiana. In 2018 I was part of the team of In codice ratio (Roma Tre) and, previously, I was awarded a Balzan Prize Fellowship at USI. I received my Ph.D. from USI (2016), with a dissertation on a treatise about physical and spiritual light by the Franciscan Bartolomeo da Bologna (1275 ca). My critical and commented edition of Bartolomeo’s De luce has just been published (SISMEL-Micrologus Library 2021).

Thanks to the generous support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (Ambizione grant, PZ00P1_201935), in September 2022 I started at UZH a four-year project on the ‘hybrid’ uses of optics in the XIII century. In a few words, I focus on how optics, today a branch of physics with well-defined boundaries, began to be employed outside its scientific context (e.g. in preaching, poetry, etc.), percolated through distant spaces and environments and profoundly influenced the imagery of a wide and varied audience in western Medieval society.  

The complete list can be found in  ZORA . See below for a selection of recent contributions.

Monographs:

• Il “De luce” di Bartolomeo da Bologna. Studio e edizione, Firenze, SISMEL (Micrologus Library 104), 2021.

Journal Articles:

• Il Dialogus e la Summula Monaldina del francescano Servasanto da Faenza (XIII sec.). Due scritti ritrovati, in Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia, 76/2 (2022), 429-443;
• Where Does the Last Drop Make the Cup Run Over? Roger Bacon vs John Peckham, and Bartolomeo da Bologna, on the Properties of Water and the Capacity of Vessels, in Studi medievali, 62/2 (2021), 641-665;
• The perspectiva ad usum praedicatorum in late 13th-century Florence. Some observations based on an examination of codex Plut.17 sin.8 from the Laurentian Library, in Micrologus, 29 (2021), 181-202.

Chapters in Edited Books and Conference Proceedings:

• Bartolomeo da Bologna e Dante. Incontri mancati e possibili convergenze, in Dante e Bologna. Istituzioni, convergenze e saperi, ed. A. Antonelli, F. Meier, Ravenna, Giorgio Pozzi, 2022, 215-230;
• Insegnare per figure: le rappresentazioni diagrammatico-simboliche nell’opera di Roberto Grossatesta, in La cultura dei Vittorini e la letteratura medievale, ed. C. Bologna, C. Zacchetti, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2022, 229-248;
• No One Will Spend Eternity Behind Christ's Back, in L’éloquence du visage entre Orient et Occident, ed. O. Voskoboynikov. Firenze, SISMEL (Micrologus Library 110), 155-189.

• Collegium Romanicum;
• SIEPM (Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale);
• SISMEL (Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino);
• SISPM (Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale).