High school diploma at Liceo classico statale G.B. Impallomeni in Milazzo, 2007.
Bachelor of Arts in the Classics at the Catholic University in Milan, 2010. Thesis in Greek language and literature.
Master of Arts in the Classics at the Catholic University in Milan, 2012. Thesis in Greek language and literature.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Macerata (Italy) and the University of Cologne (Germany), joint title, 2017. Dissertation on divine names in the Cyclades.
Journalist since 2016. Dancer in ballet and Indian classical dance (bharatanāṭyam).
PUBBLICAZIONI
2011. Un occhio vedico sulla Bayadère. Stratagemmi. Prospettive Teatrali 20:37–62. [link]
2013. Shakespeare sulle punte: drammaturgia del Sogno di una notte di mezza estate di George Balanchine. Stratagemmi. Prospettive Teatrali 27:11–40. [link]
2017. Theran hικεϲιοϲ (6th c. BC) and Homeric ἱκετήσιος: Evidence for a Zeus ‘of the Foreigners’ in Archaic Greece. In: Felicia Logozzo and Paolo Poccetti (eds.). Ancient Greek Linguistics. New Approaches, Insights, Perspectives. 775–790. Berlin: De Gruyter. [link]
2020. The Circle of Fame: Apollo, the Corps de Ballet, and the Song of the Muses at Delphi. Classical Inquiries (June 11). [link]
2020. The Rhythm of Greek Oral Poetry: Prosody, Accentual Groups and Metrical Anomalies. CHS Research Bulletin 8. [link]
2020. Zeus Δέκτερος ‘Benevolent, Welcoming’ from Thera and Proto-Indo-European ‘Right’. In: David Goldstein, Stephanie W. Jamison and Brent Vine (eds.). Proceedings of the 31st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (Los Angeles, November 8th–9th, 2019). 229–245. Hamburg: Buske. [link]
2021. (with Giovanna Rocca). La lamina aurea Schøyen MS 5236. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 217:1–16. [link]
2021. La volontà infallibile di Delfi. Un occhio linguistico sugli oracoli di fondazione coloniale. Parma: Athenaeum. [link]
2022. (with Davide Astori). Quindici lezioni di linguistica. Parma: Athenaeum. [link]
2022. The Good and the Evil: An Avestan Central Theme in a Peripheral Romani Folk-tale through Language and Myth. Poli-Femo 23:87–106. [link]
2023. Mourning Friends and Sacred Marriages: The Lamentations of Gilgameš and Akhilleus between Poetry, Religion and Linguistics. Pasiphae 17:221–232. [link]
2023. Singin’ in the Night: German Nachtigall with Its Cognates and Delocatival Compounding with “Night” in Proto-Germanic and Proto-Indo-European. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 83.1:26–44. [link]
