Curriculum Vitae

Scientific Publications
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  • Born in Florence in 1970, degree in Lettere at the Greek and Latin Philology Department of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" with a thesis on the change of Greek accent at the end of the Classical era (prof. G. Ricciardelli and L.E. Rossi).
  • Professional programmer since 1996, when working at the Italian Airforce Defense Ministry in Rome (Centro Elaborazione Dati, formerly S.E.D.A.) during his one-year military service.
  • Ph.D. in 2001 at the Department of Classical Archaeology and Philology of the University of Genoa with a thesis about the automatic analysis of Greek epic hexameter (prof. F. Montanari).
  • "Cultore della materia" (C.M.) at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" since 2002.
  • Contract researcher at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 2002 for a research about collection and digital cataloguing of epigraphical documents related to mysteric associations, directed by prof. G. Ricciardelli.
  • External consulting for the research project on Proto-Christian Sicily by prof. F.P. Rizzo at the Department of Archaeological and Historical Sciences of Antiquity of the University of Macerata.
  • Owner of an individual IT consulting company since 2002, working for various Italian companies (mostly in the publishing field).
  • External contract researcher for the project "Accounting for the Ancient Theatre: a new social and economic history of Classical Greek drama", Australian Research Council, Discovery Projects (Chief Investigators prof. P. Wilson and E. Csapo), The University of Sydney, School of Philosophical & Historical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, College of Humanities and Social Sciences: the project adopts the database and software developed for digital epigraphical editions, originally ideated for the Archaelogical Museum of Lipari. The same structure and software has been adopted by other projects for Greek, Latin and Medieval worlds.
  • Member of the Nucleo di Valutazione di Ateneo for the Faculty of Lettere e Filosofia of the University of Rome "Sapienza" since 2005, also for creating the Faculty database, websites and students guide with cd-rom with the related data entry and publishing software.
  • Contract professor for the Laboratorio di informatica umanistica at the University of Macerata in the Faculty of Lettere e Filosofia in Academic years 2005-2006, 2006-2007 and 2007-2008.
  • Basic course of Ancient Greek language (32 hours) at the Greek and Latin Philology Department of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in Academic year 2007-2008.
  • Contract professor for digital humanities at the University of Rome "Sapienza" in the Academic years 2008-9 (32 hours, 4 CFU) and 2009-2010 (two courses each 16 hours, 2 CFU).

Scientific Publications

Papers

For some digital publications you can see the list of some of the products I worked or work for.


Reviews

  • Cesare Questa, Titi Macci Plauti cantica, Urbino 1995 ("Maia" n.s. 51,1 (1999) 133-139).
  • Jean Soubiran, Prosodie et métrique du Miles gloriosus de Plaute. Introduction et commentaire, Louvain-Paris 1995 ("Maia" n.s. 51,1 (1999) 133-139).
  • Renato Raffaelli (ed.), Sui cantica di Plauto – interventi di Mario De Nonno, Giovanni Polara, Cesare Questa, Sarsina 1997 ("Maia" n.s. 52,1 (2000) 194-196).
  • Fabio Stok, Appendix Probi IV, Napoli 1997 ("Maia" ns. 52,1 (2000) 161-168).
  • Daniel Riaño Rufilanchas, Aplicaciones de Macintosh a la Filología Clásica, Madrid 1998 ("Maia" n.s. 52,1 (2000) 657-662).
  • Maria Chiara Martinelli, Gli strumenti del poeta. Elementi di metrica greca, Bologna 1995 ("Maia" n.s. 53,1 (2001) 704-719).
  • Giovanna Alvoni, Altertumswissenschaften digital - Datenbanken, Internet und e Ressourcen in der altertumswissenschaftlichen Forschung Mit Beiträgen von Ulrich Rausch, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2001 ("Maia", n.s. 55 (2003) 183-187).

Conferences

  • Speech with title "L'esametro greco: leggi di Hermann e Lehrs", in the international conference "L'esametro greco e latino: analisi, problemi e prospettive, Fisciano 28-29 maggio 2002" at the University of Salerno (Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità).
  • Presentation of the project of a digital edition of the Greek epigraphical corpus of the Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano "Luigi Bernabò Brea" in the internation conference "Le isole Eolie ed il Mediterraneo", Lipari 3-5 September 2004.
  • Illustration of the project of digital edition of the Greek epigraphical corpus of the Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano "Luigi Bernabò Brea" in the international workshop "Inscriptions of Aphrodisias: Workshop on Digital Epigraphy: An Arts and Humanities Research Board Project, Wednesday 15-Thursday 16 September, 2004", British School.
  • Speech about technologies and methods of digital editions of Classical texts in the international conference "Scrivere e rappresentare il medioevo: tra testo e contesto" by the University of Siena, 25-26 January 2005.
  • Conference with title "Un'edizione elettronica delle iscrizioni: alcuni problemi" at the Greek and Latin Philology Department of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", 18 may 2005.
  • Speech with title "Peculiarità dell'edizione epigrafica digitale di testi dell'antichità greca e latina: dal testo marcato alla banca dati" at the international conference "Digital Philology and Medieval Texts", Arezzo, 19-21 January 2006.
  • Conference with title "Principi per un’edizione digitale di corpora documentari greci e latini" at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", chair of prof. D. Musti ("Greek History"), 3 February 2006.
  • Presentation of the project for the digital edition of Medieval inscriptions at the University of Venice "Ca' Foscari", 9 May 2006.
  • Conference on methods and prototypes of digital editions and expert systems at the University of Padoa, 10 May 2006.
  • Speech with title "Catalogazione e digitalizzazione di testi e iscrizioni antiche" at the seminar "Strumenti informatici e ricerca storica" at the University of Padoa, 16 June 2006.
  • Speech with title "Edizioni digitali e modelli di informazione" at the workshop Epidoc and inscribed instrumentum, An Arts and Humanities Research Council Project hosted by the American Academy in Rome (23-25 October 2006).
  • Speech with title "Le edizioni digitali come strumenti di ricerca: metodologie e prototipi epigrafici" in the seminars on "Problemi e metodi di storia e storiografia tra antico e moderno" at the University of Chieti (26 March 2007).
  • Speech with title "An Expert System for the Classical Languages: Metrical Analysis Components" in the international conference "Trends in Computational and Formal Philology - An Italian Overview", held in Venice and Padoa, 22-24 May 2008.
  • Conference about Modern Greek and computer at the Department of Sciences of the Ancient World "Liviano" of the University of Padoa (23 November 2009).
  • Presentation of the digital edition of Initia Hymnorum Ecclesiae Graecae (http://www.hymni.net) at the international conference "Vie per Bisanzio - VII congresso nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini", Venezia 25-28 November 2009.
  • Speech with title "Tra metrica e linguistica" in the series of conferences held by the PhD School of the University of Padoa (28 April 2010).

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