Education
2024-present – PhD Programme in Philosophy, Science, Cognition, and Semiotics (PSCS) - Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
ERC Project UseFool. Knowledge and manipulation of nature between usefulness and deception in the Arabo-Islamic tradition (9th–15th century)
Project title: A Pearl Among the Stones: Edition, Translation, and Study of the Kanz al-tujjār fī maʿrifat al-aḥjār (Supervisor: Prof. Lucia Raggetti; Co-supervisor: Prof. Sara Fani).
2022 – Master's Degree in Philosophical Sciences - Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Thesis in History of Philosophy from Renaissance to Enlightenment. Title: La solitudine del filosofo: alle origini della fortuna dell’Epistola di Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (Supervisor: Prof.ssa Elisabetta Scapparone; Correlatore: Prof. Franco Bacchelli; Co-supervisor: Dr. Giovanni Mandolino); Final grade: 110/110 with honors, recommended for publication.
2021-2022 – One-year course (120h) in Religious Pluralism and Historical Knowledge (PluReS) - Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII (FSCIRE), Bologna.
2019 – Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy - Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. Thesis in Political Philosophy. Title: Dalla filosofia greca alla falsafa: confronto fra i progetti politici di Platone e di Alfarabi. (Supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Giorgini; Co-supervisor: Prof. Elena Irrera.)
Scholarships
Scholarship to attend the cycle of seminars:
Itinerari. Oriente e Occidente (02/2023) - Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Napoli
03/2023 - 05/2023
Conference Participation
Workshop organized by the UseFool project - Stones, Beads, and Powders: The Mineral World in the Premodern Scientific Discourse
11/12/2024 - 12/12/2024
Presentation title: The Jeweller’s Shop: Testing and Imitating Lapis Lazuli in Mediaeval Arabic Sources
Doctoral Training Week - GrAL (Greek Arabic Latin) - La metafisica di Proclo e la sua influenza in greco, arabo e latino
25/11/2024 - 27/11/2024 Pisa
Participation as discussant
Other activities
Intensive Arabic Course
10/03/2025 – 03/04/2025
Dar Comboni Institute For Arabic Studies, Cairo
Training School: The Long Life of Manuscripts: from material to immaterial texts (online)
11/09/2023 - 15/09/2023
RUTTER Project, CIUHCT, University of Lisbon
Introduction to Arabic Manuscript Studies course
19/06/2023 - 30/06/2023
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Saint John's University - Collegeville, Minnesota
Professional Experiences
2023/2024 – Tutor - Department of Philosophy – Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
2022/2023 – Tutor - Department of Philosophy – Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
2022 – Tutor - Department of Philosophy – Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
2021 – Tutor - Department of Chemistry and Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences – Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
