About

About me and my research

Born in 1989, I grew up in Firenze, but I’ve lived and worked in many places around the world.

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been fascinated by the so-called Renaissance culture.

Although Firenze holds a special place in my heart, I believe that the so-called Renaissance should be studied from a broader and trans-regional perspective. I’m committed to understanding the period spanning from the 14th to the 17th century as early modern instead Renaissance, focusing on the interactions between different cultures and traditions across the Mediterranean and the Eurasian region.

My research currently focuses on sixteenth-century antiquarianism, imperialism, and geographical literature from a trans-regional perspective. I mainly work on manuscript and book circulation across the Mediterranean, Arabic and Latin cosmographies, and Ottoman-European relationships. Over the years, I’ve also extensively worked on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Neoplatonism, Jewish thought, and Jewish-Christian relationships in Italy.

I’m always open to public history collaborations, and eager to communicate my research to a wider audience

More recently, I’ve begun engaging with AI, network analysis, and mapping in the study of history.

I’m also curious to explore more European project planning and management.

About my work

Between February 2022 and February 2025, I was a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow. As a part of the MSCA project, I worked at the Department of History at the Indiana University Bloomington between February 2022 and January 2024. In February and March 2024, I visited the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona as a part of my fellowship program. I finished my project at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia between April 2024 and February 2025.

In 2020-2021, I was Max Weber Fellow at the Department of History and Civilisation at the European University Institute, and in Fall 2021 Max Weber Visiting Fellow.

Before joining the EUI, in 2019-2020, I was Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies at the Universität Hamburg and the recipient of the 2020 Kristeller-Popkin Travel Fellowship.

In 2019, I earned a European PhD in History of Philosophy at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. During my PhD, I carried out my research at the Universität Hamburg and, in Paris, at the Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes at the CNRS and at the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche Moyen-Orient Méditerranée at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales.

Here, you can download my full CV.