I am associate professor of Italian Linguistics at the Department of Philology and Criticism of Ancient and Modern Literatures (DFCLAM) at the University of Siena.
In 2025, I obtained the national scientific qualification (ASN) as a full professor in the competitive sector 10/F3, Italian Linguistics and Philology.
Previously, after earning a PhD in "History of the Italian Language and Vernaculars" (La Sapienza University of Rome, 2002) and being a research fellow in Italian Linguistics from 2003 to 2006 at the University of Siena, I was a researcher in Italian Linguistics at the same university from 2007 to 2021, first at the Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy and then at the Department of Education, Human Sciences and Intercultural Communication (DSFUCI) in Arezzo.
Since the academic year 2003-2004, I taught, and continue to teach, various courses in Italian linguistics — Basic Writing, History of the Italian Language, Italian Grammar, Syntax and Vocabulary of Italian, Teaching Italian, Italian for the Media, History and Geography of Italian — as well as courses in Romance Philology and Linguistics for the undergraduate degree program in Languages for Intercultural and Business Communication and the graduate degree program in Languages for Business and Development.
I have primarily studied the syntax and textuality of written Italian, from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective, and more specifically: 14th- and 15th-century Florentine family books; the language of medieval merchants; the visions of Saint Francesca Romana; the prose of Giacomo Leopardi; 20th-century diaries; Italian songwriting; and university student writing.
More recently, my research has also focused on the verbal morphology of ancient Italian; the history of Latinisms; to literary language in octaves (the cantari of Antonio Pucci and Orlando Furioso); to the writing of Pietro Bembo; to the phonomorphology of Galileo's prose; to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century grammaticography; to the linguistics of Cesarotti and Leopardi; to the language of war diaries; and to the Romagna poetry of Raffaello Baldini.
My latest book is "La lingua di Leopardi", Bologna, Il Mulino, 2024.