University of St Andrews

Post-Doc, History

About

I graduated in History of the Reformation in Rome La Sapienza in 2001; after that I studied for my first PhD in History and computer science at the University of Bologna, and in the University of Siena for a MPhil in Early printed books. In 2009 I got the degree from the Vatican Library School of Library Science. I am currently undertaking a joint PhD between the universities of St Andrews and Siena on the history of the book.

My interests are mainly focused on Fifteenth century printed books and libraries; forbidden books and censorship in the Early Modern Age; but also projects involving digital humanities, digitization, text encoding, digital libraries and digital preservation.

Since 2001 I am involved in the Italian project RICI (Ricerca sull’Inchiesta della Congregazione dell’Indice) that focuses on booklists of monastic libraries written in the end of the sixteenth century. I also worked on significant projects for the study and cataloguing of early printed books in Italy.

I am now part of the project team of the USTC, a collective database of all books published in Europe between the invention of printing and the end of the sixteenth century.