Education:
1972-76 Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Pisa
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
1976-79 PhD, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Employment:
1979-80 Assistant Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
1980-2001 Full Time Assistant Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
2001- Associate Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy, Dept. of Philosophy, then of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge, Pisa University
Languages:
Italian, English, French, German, Latin, Ancient Greek
Areas of Competence:
Ancient Philosophy; Classical Philology; History of Classical Scholarship; History of Ideas
Scientific committees:
journals
– 2012 — “Blityri. Studi di storia delle idee sui segni e le lingue”, directed by Stefano Gensini and Giovanni Manetti (ETS, Pisa)
– 2015— “Recherches philosophiques”, directed by D. Duici
– 2017 — “Technai. An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology”, directed by L. Perilli, F. Stok, P. Zellini
other:
– 2000-2012 : member of the organising committee of the Symposium Praesocraticum (with A. Laks, G. Betegh, G. Most, O. Primavesi, M. Schofield)
Invited papers in meetings and seminars in various occasions outside Italy:
UK: Cambridge, Oxford, Durham;
USA: New York (Columbia University), Pomona (California);
France: Paris (Sorbonne), Lille, Aix-en-Provence-Marseille;
Germany: Berlin, Munich, Regensburg;
Belgium: Louvain-la-Neuve;
Hungary: Budapest;
Croatia: Zagreb
Honors:
2018, Lent Term: visiting scholar at St.John’s College in Cambridge, UK
2013: Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (Scholar Grant)
2010: Premio di Filosofia “Viaggio a Siracusa”, XI edizione (for the book Gli inizi della filosofia: in Grecia, Bollati Boringhieri, 2009)