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Introduction
1) Indo-European languages, especially Oscan
2) Ancient aggressive magic
3) Ferdinand de Saussure and the Geneva School of Linguistics
4) Digital Humanities, especially CIDOC CRM & CRMtex
Current institution
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September 2018 - present
Position
- Professor (Associate)
Description
- Course on General Linguistics, Bachelor’s Degree in Classics, Humanities and Communication Science, and Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies; Course on Historical Linguistics, Master degree in Modern Philology
March 2016 - December 2018
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
Description
- Course on “Digital writing”, 1st level Master in “Pubblicità istituzionale, comunicazione multimediale e creazione di eventi” – “Institutional Advertising, Multimedia Communication and Event Management”
September 2015 - August 2018
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
Description
- Course on General Linguistics, Bachelor’s Degree in “Lettere - curriculum antico” (Language and Literature, curriculum: Ancient Languages and Literatures)
Education
January 2007 - December 2009
September 1999 - July 2004
Publications
Publications (36)
This paper discusses the challenges addressed in the digital scholarly encoding of the fragmentary texts of the languages of Ancient Italy according to the TEI/EpiDoc Guidelines in XML format. It describes the solutions and customisations that have been adopted for dealing with the peculiarities of our epigraphical documentation and with the formal...
Poster presented to AIUCD 2021
https://aiucd2021.labcd.unipi.it/en/book-of-abstracts-conference/
CRMtex is an ontological model based on CIDOC CRM developed since 2015 to support the study of ancient documents by identifying relevant textual entities and by modelling the scientific process related to the investigation of ancient texts and their features in order to foster integ...
-https://aiucd2021.labcd.unipi.it/en/book-of-abstracts-conference/---------------------The project presents a newly started project about languages and cultures of Ancient Italy, which brings together competences from Historical Linguistics, Computational Lexicography and Digital Humanit- ies. The main objective of the project is to investigate the...
This paper presents the new developments of CRMtex, an ontological model based on CIDOC CRM, created to describe ancient texts and other semiotic features appearing on inscriptions, papyri, manuscripts and other similar supports. The model is also designed to describe in a formal way the phenomena related to the production, use, conservation, study...
The poster is related to “Languages and Cultures of Ancient Italy. Historical Linguistics and Digital Models” (https://www.prin-italia-antica.unifi.it), a project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research in 2020 and involving the Universities of Venice and Florence, and the Institute for Computational Linguistics - Italian National...
Poster presented at Epigraphy.info Workshop V (Leuven, November 3rd-6th, 2020)
The article provides some considerations on the pragmatic and textual structure of aggressive magical texts. Starting from studies on the notion of performativity, it then investigates other possible textual and theory of enunciation models, to seek to explain the structural and morpho-syntactic variety of aggressive magical texts.
The paper focuses on curse tablets in Greek, Latin and Oscan languages, concerning food as part of magical formulae.
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L’articolo analizza alcuni testi di maledizione in lingua greca, latina ed osca, all’interno dei quali il cibo viene annoverato tra gli elementi da esecrare.
the paper deals with the course of Greek dialectology held by saussure in 1902- 3 and its implications in the construction of patterns of linguistic variation in saussure’s theory of language. the study compares the preparatory notes of F. de saussure and the notes taken by ch. Bally, who was attending the course, and attempts to understand the int...
This paper tries to identify the most important concepts involved in the study of ancient texts and proposes the use of CIDOC CRM to encode them and to model the scientific process of investigation related to the study of ancient texts to foster integration with other cultural heritage research fields. After identifying the key concepts, assessing...
Il volume raccoglie gli appunti che Ch. Bally - successore di F. de Saussure ed editore del Cours de linguistique générale - prese ai corsi di linguistica greca tenuti da Saussure presso l'Università di Ginevra tra il 1893 e il 1903 e alcune note che Saussure stesso redasse in occasione di uno di questi corsi. Il volume fornisce un commento ai sing...
K. McDONALD , OSCAN IN SOUTHERN ITALY AND SICILY: EVALUATING LANGUAGE CONTACT IN A FRAGMENTARY CORPUS (Cambridge Classical Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xix + 306, illus. isbn 9781107103832. £64.99/US$99.99. N. ZAIR , OSCAN IN THE GREEK ALPHABET (Cambridge Classical Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016....
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24915403 ----- The present paper analyses F. de Saussure’s manuscripts concerning interest- ing histori(ographi)cal and linguistics remarks on two Latin inscriptions from Geneva area, and places them in the context of Saussure’s scienti c interest. The author moves from Saussure’s comment on pierre-pertuis text to discu...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24915431 ---------- Si pubblicano e commentano i manoscritti (perlopiù inediti) di F. de Saussure sull'epigrafia, al fine di comprendere la dimensione che questa disciplina assume nel suo pensiero e nel suo lavoro. A partire da un'analisi generale dei manoscritti, possiamo osservare come Saussure tratti le iscrizioni in...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24915438 ----------- Nell'articolo si pubblicano e commentano alcune pagine manoscritte di F. de Saussure sulla celebre iscrizione greca delle tavole di Eraclea. Saussure si concentra su alcune questioni linguistiche, in particolare su alcune voci di lessico presenti nel testo. --- The article deals with the F. de Sauss...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24324166 ------- Review of Testenoire's two volumes on Saussure's anagrams. In the first volume, the author edited the complete corpus of Saussure’s manuscripts related to the anagrammatic research on Homeric poetry. In the second volume, the author offers a detailed commentary of the texts presented in the first volume...
https://www.studietruschi.org/francesca-murano-la-tabula-veliterna-aspetti-linguistici-e-aspetti-istituzionali-pp-217-239 ------- L’articolo prende in considerazione alcuni aspetti linguistici della nota iscrizione della Tabula Veliterna, una lex sacra in lingua volsca, al fine di evidenziare gli aspetti giuridico-istituzionali che essa pone. Infat...
The paper describes a philological-computational tool developed by the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale of Pisa, aimed at creating a digital edition of Ferdinand de Saussure’s unpublished manuscripts. Since the use of a digital edition and of the most modern computer technology allows a more in-depth research, the ILC is developing a set of d...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24324152 ---------
The article reports a news concerning the on-line publication of two private letters that Saussure wrote during the period he was working on anagrams to the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli, in order to discuss with him a possible conscious use of this technique in poetic texts.
L'articolo presenta i risultati del progetti "Samnium Digital Archive", il cui scopo è la raccolta dell’intero corpus epigrafico osco pertinente al Sannio antico e la sua conservazione in un archivio digitale, tenendo conto di tutti gli aspetti epigrafici, linguistici, archeologici correlati alla singola iscrizione. The paper presents the "Samnium...
Il volume traccia un percorso storiografico delle riflessioni saussuriane sull'etimologia alla luce del corso "Etymologie grecque et latine" che Saussure tenne nel 1911-1912 e per il quale disponiamo degli appunti di Louis Brütsch.
Si presentano i risultati del progetto PRIN “Per un’edizione digitale dei manoscritti di Ferdinand de Saussure”. Obiettivo della ricerca era la creazione di un sistema computazionale per l’edizione e la gestione digitale dei manoscritti di Saussure: sono stati, dunque, preparati gli strumenti e le metodologie necessarie per poter approntare una rig...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41809494 ---- This article considers various aspects of the Oscan cursing tablets. In particular, it examines the binding formulae, the cursing typologies, and the thematic classification of these texts, comparing them with cursing tablets pertaining to other cultural areas. It considers also the peculiar textual and li...
https://www.studietruschi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SE75_14.pdf#page=26 --------- L'articolo si propone di individuare, a seguito di un nuovo rilevamento autoptico, l'esatta composizione testuale della defixio osca Vetter 5. Frutto di un ritrovamento ottocentesco, l'iscrizione è composta da molti frammenti non combacianti tra di loro, il cui s...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24324923 ------- Vengono pubblicati alcuni appunti inediti sull’iscrizione del cippo del Foro romano presi da Ferdinand de Saussure durante il suo soggiorno italiano nel 1905-1906. Si tratta di alcuni alcuni fogli manoscritti conservati alla Bibliothéque de Genève, nei quali Saussure prende nota di alcuni aspetti epigra...
Archivio web digitale delle fonti epigrafiche in lingua osca pertinenti all'antico Sannio
L’articolo ripercorre le vicende relative al ritrovamento di un celeberrimo documento epigrafico in lingua osca, il Cippo Abellano, e alle prime pubblicazioni ad esso inerenti, a partire dall’editio princeps del testo, pubblicata da Mons. Passeri all’interno del II volume delle Memorie di varia erudizione della Società Colombaria fiorentina del 175...
In this paper we present a relevant example of how new technologies can be applied to the study of the ancient world. In particular, we present a set of activities whereby we apply semantic technologies and open source software for the study of defixiones, a very specific class of archaeological and textual objects.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24189448 ---- The article presents the history of the interpretation of the first Oscan documents and and their impact on Italian antiquary, starting from some unpublished manuscripts letters, particularly the author presents here, for the first time, Passeri’s and Remondini’s autograph transcriptions of these inscripti...
https://flore.unifi.it/retrieve/e398c378-b39e-179a-e053-3705fe0a4cff/QDLF20-04murano.pdf
All’interno della nota si avanzano alcune proposte circa la struttura sintattica dell'iscrizione osca Ve 4; attraverso alcune considerazioni sulla connessione del testo con la sfera giuridica, si avanza, inoltre, una proposta sulla pertinenza semantica del termine osco velliam.
https://www.studietruschi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SE72_12.pdf#page=81
