Education
Graduated in Modern Literature in 2005 from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Bologna (110/110 cum laude with honors for publication), and earned a Ph.D. in the Civilizations of Humanism and the Renaissance at the University of Florence in 2009.
Academic Career
After eight years as a research fellow at the FICLIT department of the University of Bologna (2010-2017), he became a Researcher at the same department in 2017, in the current disciplinary field ITAL-01/A Italian Literature (formerly L-Fil-Let/10). In August 2018, he was unanimously awarded the National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor. Since September 1, 2022, he has been an Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Bologna.
Teaching Activities
Since 2017, he has consistently taught various courses for Bachelor's and Master's degrees in the FICLIT and DISCI departments. Currently, he teaches Italian Literature and Italian Renaissance Literature for the Bachelor’s degree in Literature and the Bachelor’s degree in History at the University of Bologna. For six years (2017-2023), he also conducted Creative Writing Workshops and Seminars with writers for the Master's degree in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, and Linguistics.
Scientific Activities
In 2015, he received a three-month full scholarship for a research period at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel.
In 2017, he won an AlmaIdea project—Junior intervention line—with the project LETSDUIT – Technical Scientific Lexicon of Italian Humanists.
In 2022, he received a €10,000 university grant within the ALMArie CURIE 2022 - SUpER Line intervention, funded by resources from D.M. 737/2021 financed by the European Union - "NextGenerationEU," as the scientific supervisor for Arianna Capirossi, candidate for a MSCA Global Fellowship with the project «Immoral and Immortal. The Metamorphosis of Seneca’s Tragic Heroines from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance».
Since 2023, he has been the Local Coordinator of the PRIN 2022 project titled: “TransLATINg Italian Literature,” admitted for funding by D.D. n. 1012 on 06/07/2023.
From 2007 to today, he has been a speaker at about sixty international conferences.
He is a referee for numerous international and Italian journals in the field of Philology and Italian Studies.
Institutional Activities and Academic Appointments
Since June 2024, he has been the Research Delegate for the FICLIT Department.
Since May 2024, he has been a member of the Council of the FICLIT Department.
From 2020 to 2022, he co-managed with Nicola Bonazzi the POT project (Ministry Project for High School Student Orientation towards Literature and Tutoring of Bachelor’s degree students in Literature at Unibo).
Since July 2019, he has been the coordinator for the Prison University Center (PUP) for the Bachelor’s degree in Literature.
Membership in Scientific and Editorial Committees
Since 2023, he has been co-director of the journal «Ecdotica», after serving as editor-in-chief since 2015 (https://site.unibo.it/ecdotica/it/info/credits);
Since 2023, he has been a member of the scientific committee of the journal «Studi e Problemi di Critica Testuale» (http://www.libraweb.net/riviste.php?chiave=83);
Since 2022, he has been co-director (with Fabio Della Schiava) of the «Sempervirens» series of the LYSA publishing house (Belgium).
Since 2017, he has been a member of the scientific committee of the journal «Griseldaonline» of the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna (https://griseldaonline.unibo.it/about/scientificcommittee);
Since September 2021, he has been a member of the ADI CLINAMEN working group: Diagonal paths between literature and science.
Since November 2019, he has been a member of the scientific committee of the CRDI (Research Center on Italian Language Teaching) of the Ficlit Department (https://ficlit.unibo.it/it/ricerca/centri-di-ricerca/crdi);
Since January 2018, he has been a member of the scientific committee of the FAR Center (Fracassetti Archive; https://far-archiviofracassetti.com/index.php/attivita/comitato-scientifico/);
Since January 2017, he has been a member of the scientific committee of the journal «Documenta. Rivista internazionale di studi storico-filologici sulle fonti» (Serra Ed.);
Since April 2016, he has been a member of the scientific committee of the ARCE center (Estense Letters Research Archive), established through an agreement between the State Archives of Modena and the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna (https://ficlit.unibo.it/it/ricerca/centri-di-ricerca/arce);
Since December 2014, he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the journal «Ticontre. Teoria. Testo. Traduzione» of the University of Trento;
Since 2013, he has been editor-in-chief of the series «Cultura umanistica e saperi moderni» of the publisher Pàtron (Bologna), directed by Professors Gian Mario Anselmi, Loredana Chines, and Carlo Varotti.
Other Activities
He has been a TV commentator for RaiStoria (Signorie. Potere e bellezza, 8 episodes, January-March 2015, now on Raiplay) and for SkyArte (I Bentivoglio signori di Bologna, October 27, 2020).
Since 2020, he has been a consultant for the publishing house La Scuola di Pitagora (Naples) for the series “Humanism and Renaissance.”
