I am an Assistant Professor in the History of Ancient Philosophy (RTD-A) at the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries, University of Parma. My research focuses primarily on Plato and the Platonic tradition, as well as the relationship between philosophy, particularly cosmology, and mathematics.
After completing a joint PhD at the University of Cagliari and the University of Cologne, I was a postdoctoral fellow in Cologne, and subsequently within the ERC project “PROTEUS” (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and University of Milan), the “COSMOS” project (University of Milan), and the FIS “Ancient Science, Ancient Philosophy” (University of Rome Tor Vergata). I hold the Italian National Scientific Habilitation as Associate Professor in the History of Philosophy (11/C5).
I am involved in several national and international research projects on ancient philosophy and the history of ancient science, including the FIS project “Ancient Science, Ancient Philosophy: The Philosophical Foundation of Science in Antiquity”, the project “MARe – Mathematics in Aristotle Revisited”, and the “COSMOS Network – History & Philosophy of Cosmology”. I also maintain ongoing collaborations with Italian and international research groups in ancient philosophy, such as Ancient Philosophy in Turin, Antike und Spätantike Philosophie at the University of Cologne, and the research group on ancient science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Among my publications are:
“Un piccolo esempio”. La psicagogia matematica di Platone. Leiden/Boston: Brill (Series: Brill’s Plato Studies Series, 18), 2024. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004701472.
“A Trivial Source of Wonder: Some Mathematical Examples in Plato’s Dialogues”. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 106.3, 2024, pp. 379–410. https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2021-0161.
“Syrianus on Place as the (Empty?) Interval of the Cosmos”. Antiquorum Philosophia, 18, 2024, pp. 75–97. https://doi.org/10.19272/202430201005.
“The ‘Quadratic’ Division in Plato’s Sophist 265e–266d”. Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, 116.3, 2024, pp. 591–603. https://doi.org/10.26350/001050_000471.
“Plato as a Precursor of the Quadrivium? The Case Study of Logistikê ”. The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition. AoP, 2025, pp. 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1163/18725473-bja10048.
“Plato Ὁμηρικώτατος? Proclus on the Muses’ Speech (Resp. VIII, 545c–547a)”. In: Reassessing Homer in the Platonic Tradition, edited by François Renaud, Christina-Panagiota Manolea, and Harold Tarrant. Berlin: De Gruyter (Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde), 2025, pp. 271–289. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111675039-016.
“Timaeus’ Teleological Mathematics: Normativity and Psychagogy”. In: Plato, “Timaeus” (within Works of Philosophy and Their Reception – WPR), edited by Federico M. Petrucci. Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2006.