Università degli Studi di Firenze

Post-Doc, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Medioevo e Rinascimento e Linguistica

About

I got my degree in Classics at the University of Florence in 2004. In the following three years (2005-2007) I have specialized in Aegean Archaeology at the Italian School of Archaeology at Athens. Back in Florence, I got my Ph.D. in History and Civilization of the Ancient World, disciplinary field of Aegean Civilization, in March 2011, with a thesis on “Buildings and Builders in Mycenaean Times: a critical assessment of the archaeological and epigraphic evidence”. My scientific production includes contributions in Italian and foreign journals, concerning the institutions of the Cretan poleis (andreia and aghelai), administrative documents written in Linear A and B, Mycenaean pottery and clay figurines, Mycenaean Economy. Currently I am collaborating with the Institute for Aegean and Near Eastern Studies of Rome (ICEVO), in the field of Aegean Scripts of the Second Millennium BC. This year (2011) I am adjunct professor of Mycenaean Civilization at the University ‘Carlo Bo’ of Urbino and fellow at the Italian School of Archeology at Athens with a research on Neopalatial administrative systems. I am particularly interested in the aims, means and methods of economic control in Crete during the LM I and I devote particular attention to the case of Haghia Triada in the Messarà Palin, to tablets in Linear A and sealings, to their archaeological context, and to relationships and comparisons between the contemporary administrative centers.