I am an Italian philologist and literary scholar specializing in medieval and Renaissance epistolography, rhetoric, and the history of political language, with a strong methodological focus on digital scholarly editing. My research combines philology, literary history, and digital humanities to study how texts, documentary practices, and material transmission shape cultural and political formations. In recent years, I have developed an increasingly distinctive profile in transparent, reproducible editorial workflows that integrate XML-TEI, Linked Open Data, ARACNE, EVT, and AI-assisted annotation under human-in-the-loop control, making philological interpretation more auditable, scalable, and openly reusable. At KU Leuven, where I am currently based as Research Associate, this line of work has been further strengthened through a Postdoctoral Mandate (PDM) supporting the development of advanced digital editions of Renaissance epistolary corpora.

My academic trajectory has been strongly international. I trained between Naples, Liège, and Basilicata, and worked or carried out research at the University of Oxford (Cultures of Knowledge), Utrecht University (ERC SkillNET), the University of Liège (EpistolART), Leiden University, the University of Naples Federico II, and KU Leuven. My research has developed within broader European networks connected with the COST Action IS1310 “Reassembling the Republic of Letters, 1500–1800”, which helped shape my interest in correspondence, intellectual networks, and digital methods for textual scholarship.

My publications include monographs, critical editions, digital editions, articles, and edited volumes on Renaissance letter-writing, humanist prose, book history, and digital philology. I have published in peer-reviewed journals and venues of established scholarly standing, including La Bibliofilía, Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana, Critica Letteraria, CESURA-Rivista, and Incontri. A central aim of this work is to show how advanced digital methods can enhance, rather than replace, philological rigor, and how semantic and AI-assisted workflows can open new paths for the interpretation of literary and documentary corpora.

I also have a strong commitment to scholarly publishing and academic service. I am Editor-in-Chief of Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, Secretary of the Werkgroep Italië Studies (WIS), and a member of the editorial board of CESURA-Rivista (ANVUR Class A). I have invested significantly in the development of Basilicata University Press and in open-access editorial infrastructures based on OJS and OMP, with the aim of strengthening sustainable and innovative forms of research dissemination. My monograph Bartolomeo Miniatore e l’Umanesimo volgare received the 2023 WIS Best Research Award, recognizing it as the best research published by a scholar active in Flanders or the Netherlands. Alongside research, I have taught and supervised students in several universities and institutions across Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands.