Team members
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Carlo Tedeschi
Carlo Tedeschi is a palaeographer, currently serving as full Professor at the “G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara. He graduated at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1991, with a thesis supervised by Armando Petrucci. He then received a PhD degree at the University of Macerata in 1994, with a thesis on post-Roman inscriptions of Britain (tutor A. Petrucci); he worked as a junior Lecturer at the “Ca’ Foscari” University of Venice (2005-2010) and then at the “G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (2010-2015); he was associate Professor at the same university, 2015 to 2021; he is full professor since 2021. He is a member of the teaching board of the PhD programme in “Cultural Heritage Studies”, at the “G. D’Annunzio” University. He is a member of the following associations: “Associazione Italiana Paleografi e Diplomatisti” (AIPD); “Consulta universitaria dei Paleografi, Diplomatisti, Codicologi” CuPaDiC; “Associazione Manoscritti datati d’Italia” (MDI); “Comité International de Paléographie Latine” (CIPL). Since his early research activities, initially inspired by Armando Petrucci, he developed an interest in epigraphic scripts and graffiti, and focused a large part of his scholarly work on them. He has published editions of epigraphic and graffiti corpora; he has studied inscriptions and graffiti in different geographical (Britannia, southern Tuscia, Abruzzo, Rome and Latium, Salento) and chronological contexts (from the 4th century to the late Middle Ages); moreover, in several papers he has addressed methodological and historiographical issues related to the study of graffiti. He focused on the study of books and documentary writings mainly from the middle Adriatic area, with publications on 9th to 12th century manuscripts from Abruzzi, a crossroads region between the South and Centre-North of the Italian peninsula, exposed to the twofold influence of the Beneventan and Caroline cultures. He is in charge of the edition of the corpus of medieval inscriptions of Abruzzo, as part of the Inscriptiones Medii Aevi Italiae project (CISAM Foundation, Spoleto); he is also engaged in the coordination of research activities on both book (including fragments) and documentary heritage in the dioceses of Penne and Chieti.
Several articles of his are available at the following link: https://unich-it.academia.edu/CarloTedeschi
Institutional link: https://www.unich.it/ugov/person/1124
Senior Staff
Monica Berté
Monica Berté is Full Professor of Middle Latin Philology and Literature at the University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara. She was visiting scholar at the Prembroke College of Cambridge. She is member of the Accademia Petrarca of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Arezzo, counselor secretary in the Savio Collegio dell’Accademia dell’Arcadia, member of the “Commissione per l’Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Francesco Petrarca”, of the Scientific Commettee of the “Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio” and of the journal «Aevum. Rassegna di scienze storiche, linguistiche e filologiche». She is director of the «Rivista di Studi Danteschi» and «Atti e memorie dell’Arcadia» and is part of the Editorial board of «Studi sul Boccaccio». She is curator and scientific manager of the Catalogo Gli autografi dei letterati italiani dal secondo Trecento alla prima metà del Quattrocento. Il Trecento. II (ALI) and of the PRIN Project Petrarca on-line: biography, works, library. Her research interests focus on the “three crowns” of the Italian Literature
(Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio), particularly on their Latin production as well as on medieval and Humanistic tradition of classical authors (mainly Cicerone, Floro, Stazio, Svetonio). She published several scientific articles and critical editions on these topics. She co-authored, with Marco Petoletti, of a manual of Medieval and Humanistic Philology, published by Il Mulino of Bologna.
She was part of the Senior Staff from 1st april to 31 december 2023
Gaetano Curzi
Gaetano Curzi got his master’s degree in Letters (cum laude) at “La Sapienza” University of Rome (1991). Specialized in 1994 in Medieval and Modern Art History at the same University (cum laude), in 1999 he got his PhD in Art History, in partnership with “La Sapienza” University of Rome, the University of Florence and the University of Parma. In 1992, he obtained a scholarship from the Accademia di San Luca to carry out a research in London at the V&A. In 1995, he was the winner of a scholarship for postgraduate study at the University of Munich, promoted by the University of Padua. In 2001 he was Postdoc fellow at the University of Chieti-Pescara within the project “Wooden sculpture in Abruzzo between the 12th and 14th centuries”. From 1990 to 1999, he was Editor of the Enciclopedia dell’Arte Medievale, and between 1999 and 2001 he worked as art historian at the Soprintendenza ai Beni Artistici e Storici di Napoli, serving the role of curator of the ancient paintings of the Capodimonte Museum. Appointed as Researcher in Medieval Art History at the University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara (2002-2008, 2011) and at the University of Siena (2008-2011), he became Associate Professor in Medieval Art History in 2011 at the University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, and Full Professor in 2018. He is a member of the Scientific Commettee of the International Journal “Rivista d’Arte”. He is a member of the CIHA Italy and part of the Editorial board of “Studi Medievali e Moderni”. He is full member of the Società Romana di Storia Patria. His research activities covered several themes within the field of medieval Art History: the Templars, art at the time of the Cruisades, Roman paintings, wooden sculptures, art in Abruzzo and Apulia regions in the Angioine Age, Giotto.
Nicoletta Giovè
Nicoletta Giovè is Full professor of Palaeography (SSD M-STO / 09) at the Department of Historical, Geographical and Antiquity Sciences – DiSSGeA of the University of Padua and teaches Fundamentals of Latin Palaeography, Latin Palaeography and Codicology. She is in charge of the cataloguing project of dated manuscripts kept in Italian libraries, promoted by the AIMD-Associazione Italiana Manoscritti Datati, of which she is a member and of which she is currently the President. She is part of the executive and scientific committee of the IMAI-Inscriptiones Medii Aevi Italiae Project, promoted by the Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo of Spoleto. She studies the written production of Franciscan friars; the abbreviation systems between Antiquity and the Middle Ages; the history of literacy between the early and the late Middle Ages; the status of copyists; the production of university manuscripts. She is part of the SISF-Società Internazionale di Studi Francescani of Assisi, of the SAAME-Centro Interuniversitario per la storia e l’archeologia dell’alto medioevo of Venice, of the CIPL-Comité international de paléographie latine and of the CIBA-Centro Interdipartimentale di ricerca “Studio e conservazione dei beni archeologici, architettonici e storico-artistici ” of the University of Padua. She was member of the Commission for the competition sector 11 / A4 – Book and document sciences and historical-religious sciences of the ASN 2016-2018 and, in 2017, Mercator Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Historisches Seminar of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
Francesca Malagnini
Associate professor in Italian Linguistic from 2014 at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, she obtained the qualification for 1st level Professor in 2018. Visiting professor in several European Universities (Brno, Capodistria, Craiova, Fiume, Kragujevac, Madrid, New York, Paris, Pola, Salonicco, Toruń). She has dealt with various aspects of the history of the Italian language: ancient and contemporary Italian; learning Italian L2; material and linguistic Philology in Boccaccio’s autographs; the relationship between text and images in Manzoni’s Quarantana; critical editions of wall writings from the 15th-17th century, inscriptions (16th-18th century), Tommaseo’s popular poetry, and of lexicography (she wrote entries for the Italian Etymological Lexicon, the study of the Tommaseo-Bellini files, together with Anna Rinaldin). She is PI of the National Relevance Project PRIN 2017 (“PHRAME – Phraseological Complexity Measures in learner Italian. Integrating eye tracking, computational and learner corpus methods to develop second language pedagogical resources”, Project N. 20178XXKFY). She is scientific director of a project launched by the Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia, and creator and scientific referent for the Soprintendenza Archeologica Belle Arti e Paesaggio dell’Umbria of the project “Evidence of late medieval and modern scriptures and graffiti along the Umbrian pilgrimage paths”). At her home Institution, she leads the department of Linguistic and Philological Sciences within the doctoral studies in Linguistic, Philological-Literary and Political-Social sciences. She is director of the 1st level Master in Didactics of Italian as non-mother tongue. She was Rectoral Delegate for Academic Research and is currently Rectoral Delegate for Masters, Higher Education and University Education. She is VQR evaluator for her disciplinary sector, and for the MUR of Projects of National Relevance PRIN.
Mario Marrocchi
Mario Marrocchi (Rome, 1968) is Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara. He graduated at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1993, with a thesis on Thomas of Celano, the first St. Francis’ biograph. He then received a PhD degree at the University of Florence with a thesis on Chiusi and his territory in the Early Middle Ages. He collaborated several times with the German Historical Institute (2002, 2006 and 2007/2010, in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Heritage and Historical Sciences, University of Siena). He was appointed as Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Siena (2021/2022). Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the series “Monografías Historia y Arte” – Editorial UCA, Universidad de Cádiz, he is referee for scientific journals such as “Early Medieval Europe”, “Historia, Instituciones, Documentos”, “Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken”, “Riparia”.
He deals with the history of territories, settlements, and monastic institutions, focusing also on their writing practices, particularly of Tuscany between the 8th and the 12th century. His interests extend to environmental studies, popular religious phenomena (12th to 15th centuries), and Digital Humanities. He is the author of the books Monaci scrittori. San Salvatore al monte Amiata tra Impero e Papato (secc. VIII-XIII), Firenze 2014, and Lo Statuto duecentesco del Comune di Radicofani, Bologna 2019; he also published several studies in scientific journals and collective books, edited books, and translated studies on the Middle Ages from German and English to Italian.
Oliva Menozzi
Associate Professor in Classical Archaeology in Cultural Heritage Studies at the University “G.d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara. Director of the CAAM-Centre of the Athenaeum for Archaeometry and Microanalysis of Chieti. PI of the European Projects EuroTeCH 2018-2021(European technologies for Cultural Heritage at risk, EU+ Strategic Partnership call), PICASP 2020-2023 (Pilot Courses in Practice Enterprise to implement the University-Enterprise Cooperation for the development of Caspian Area for Tourism in Cultural Heritage), Eu-Capacity Building), SD@UHZ 2016-2017 (Strategic Support on establishment and development of sustaineble structures, international relation and student support services at UHZ in Kossovo). Director of the Archaeological Missions of Chieti University in Libya, Egypt and Cyprus. Director of the Master STArch (Sciences and Technologies for Archaeology). BA in Classics, Chieti University (June 1990). MSt (1year master) in Classical Archaeology, Oxford University (June 1992). Specialization post-graduate Degree (3 years) in Archaeology, University ‘La Sapienza’ of Rome (April 1995). DPhil/PhD in Classical Archaeology, Oxford University (1998). PostDoctoral Research Fellowship in Archaeology, Chieti University (1999-2002). Scuba Diving Licence, September 2004, PADI certifications. Member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde (FeRA), of Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya, of Libya Antiqua, and of the Balkan Economic Review (BER), as Responsible of the section of Ancient Economy. Director of excavation projects in Italy (Capestrano-Aq, Iuvanum-Ch, Spoltore-Pe, Montepidocchio-Ch), Egypt (Neferhotep Complex-Luxor), Cyprus (Plattias and Agia Marina, Limassol District), Libya (Cyrene necropolis, Ain Hofra-Shahat, Lamluda-El Gubba).
Giuseppe Mrozek Eliszezynski
Giuseppe Mrozek Eliszezynski is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the Department of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences of the University ‘G. D’Annunzio’ of Chieti-Pescara. He obtained his PhD in “History: Politics, Society, Cultures, Territory” at the University of Roma Tre (2012). Subsequently, he had post-doc contracts at the University of Teramo (July 2012-May 2014) as part of the European project ENBaCH (European Network for Baroque Cultural Heritage); at the Società Napoletana di Storia Patria (academic year 2015/2016), with a project focusing on the figure of Cardinal Archbishop Ascanio Filomarino; at the University ‘G. D’Annunzio’ of Chieti-Pescara (2017-2019) and then at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (2020-2022). He deals with political and cultural history in the specific context of the Habsburg monarchy of Spain (16th-17th centuries), with particular attention to the government of the Iberian ministers-favourites and the relations between the court of Madrid and the Italian territories, especially the kingdom of Naples. On these topics he published four monographs, in addition to various articles in international journals and several essays in volumes. He is currently working on a new research project focusing on the political evolution of so-called ‘Spanish Italy’ in the second half of the 17th century, a period often neglected by historiography. He is part of various research groups at international level, such as the Instituto Universitario La Corte en Europa (IULCE) of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and Red Columnaria, nodo “Representaciones y autorrepresentaciones del poder en las sociedades y los territorios de frontera”.
Junior Research Staff
Simone Allegria
Simone Allegria is palaeographer, currently working as Researcher at the University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara. In 2002 he got his master’s degree at the University of Siena, and in 2006 he got his PhD in Latin Palaeography with a thesis on autograph subscriptions of early medieval documents from Arezzo. He attended training courses, including the National Historical School for the Edition of Documentary Sources at the Italian Historical Institute for the Middle Ages (ISIME) in 2010. Scholarship holder and visiting professor at several European universities; from 2006 to 2009 he taught, as a adjunct professor, Exegesis of Documentary Sources at the University of Siena, and, from 2015 to 2021, he taught Diplomatics and Sphragistics at the School of Higher Education of the Central Institute for Book and Archive Pathology in Rome. He is a member of the Italian Association of Palaeographers and Diplomatists and of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona, and participates in the activities of the School of Palaeography and History (SPeS) promoted by the Saint Rose of Viterbo Study Centre. He was awarded with the national scientific qualification as associate professor in the scientific-disciplinary sector M-STO/09 (Palaeography).
Several articles of his are available at the following link: https://unich-it.academia.edu/SimoneAllegria
Institutional link: https://www.dilass.unich.it/node/10348
He was part of the Junior Research Staff from 1st September 2022 30 April 2024
Sebastiano Blancato
Sebastiano Blancato is a palaeographer, currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher for the ERC Project Graff-IT “Writing on the Margins. Graffiti in Italy (7th – 16th centuries)”, hosted at the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences within the University of Chieti – Pescara. Professor of Latin Palaeography under a yearly contract (2024-2025) at the University of Triest, he has also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher for the Italian Project (PRIN) “Diversamente mendicanti / Unconventionally Mendicants”, hosted at the University of Udine – MST01 from May 2024 to April 2025. He held PhD in “History: Cultures and Structures of Border Areas” from the University of Udine (2016). Here he also obtained a 2-year MA in Sciences of the Text and the Book (2012). In 1984 he obtained 4-year MA in Foreign (Russian and English) Languages and Literatures from the University of Catania. He is Editor for the Project “Historical Topography of the Aquileia’s Patriarchate” an online database offering toponyms and corresponding palaeonyms from published editions of patriarchal documents of the late medieval age (https://www.librideipatriarchi.it/i-luoghi-dei-patriarchi/, https://topografia.librideipatriarchi.it/ ).
His scientific output is available here: https://unich-it.academia.edu/SebastianoBlancato.
Martina Cameli
Martina Cameli is a diplomatist and paleographer currently working as research fellow at the University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara. After her graduation at the University of Bologna in History of the Church and Medieval heretical movements (tutor L. Paolini), she got a PhD in History of Christianity and the Churches at the University of Padua (tutores A. Rigon and A. Bartoli Langeli), a Master’s degree for “Conservator of archival and book assets of medieval civilization” at the University of Cassino (tutor M. Vendittelli), and the Diploma in Palaeography, Diplomatics and Archive at the State Archives of Modena. She benefited from research grants from the University of Verona, the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo (ISIME) and the Instituto Pio Paschini for the history of Church in Friuli. She also worked within several PRIN (= Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale) in various universities. After dealing with the monastic history of the southern Marches, she focused her interest on the bishopric of Ascoli Piceno between 11th and 13th centuries, to which three monographs have been devoted, with particular attention to the production of written documentation (La chiesa scritta; In volubili Marchia; Codice diplomatico dell’Episcopato ascolano). She published with the ISIME two edition volumes on Registri e imbreviature di Meglioranza da Thiene, notaio dei Patriarchi di Aquileia (1304-1313, 1321?-1323, 1324?-1334), and Note e quaderni di Meglioranza da Thiene, for Pio Paschini Institute, the edition of I documenti di S. Giorgio in Braida di Verona, II (1166-1175), and the one of the Statutes of the Fraglia dei notai di Padova (1419-1420). Her research interests deal with the history, the function and the meaning of medieval documentary writings in close connection with medieval history (Church, culture, institutions, and society).
She was part of the Junior Research Staff from 15 march 2023 to 28 February 2025
Sabrina Centonze
Sabrina Centonze is an architect, born in Matera. She graduated with the highest grade in 2005 at “La Sapienza” University of Rome, with a thesis supervised by Salvatore Dierna and Alessandra Battisti. At the same University in 2007 she got a master’s degree in Environmental Design, Use of Renewable Resources in Architecture, with a thesis supervised by Cristina Benedetti, focusing her research in rock architecture environment. Her research themes range within the field of Art and Architecture History, iconography, iconology and symbolism of the medieval period. Her research in the field of graffiti started in 2008, recording medieval and post-medieval graffiti along the major pilgrimage routes. Since 2017 she’s in the editorial staff of MATHERA – History and culture magazine of the Lucanian and Apulian territory. At the “G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara she’s a Research Fellow of Graff-IT ERC-Project for Diagnostic, Geo-Archaeological Study, Mapping and Monitoring of Hypogea with graffiti.
Several of her articles are available at the following link: https://unich-it.academia.edu/SabrinaCentonze
She was part of the Junior staff until June 2025
Margherita Filippozzi
Margherita Filippozzi is a classical philologist, specialized in Humanistic translations from Greek, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC Graff-IT project “Writing on the Margins. Graffiti in Italy (7th – 16th centuries)” at the “Gabriele D’Annunzio” University of Chieti.
After graduating in Classical Philology at the University of Udine in 2019 with a thesis on Lorenzo Valla’s translation of Thucydides, she completed her PhD at Sapienza University of Rome in 2023, focusing on the manuscript tradition of Valla’s Historiae Peloponnensium.
As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Udine, she contributed to the projects: “BUVV: Biblioteche Umanistiche di area Veneta Virtuali,” where she focused on the Greek manuscripts belonged to the Venetian humanists Francesco and Ermolao Barbaro (15th century), and “DOBiPS – Data Oriented Biblical Paratext Studies,” where she worked on the digital critical edition of the Octateuch summaries in the Turonian Bibles and the database of Medieval Latin Bible manuscripts (8th–13th centuries).
Elisa Pallottini
Elisa Pallottini is a palaeographer, specialised in medieval epigraphy, currently working as Postdoc at the University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara (elisa.pallottini@unich.it). In 2008, she got her master’s degree in Medieval History at “La Sapienza” University of Rome. She got her PhD in Latin Palaeogrpahy at the same University, in 2012, with a thesis on Medieval Epigraphy and Digital Humanities entitled “Medieval Inscriptions from the Province of Viterbo (6th-12th c.): census, analysis and data bank” (supervised by Luisa Miglio and Carlo Tedeschi). She was visiting-scholar at the CESCM-Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale of the University of Poiters (2012-2013), with a scholarship for postgraduate studies abroad from “La Sapienza” University of Rome. She was appointed as Postdoctoral fellow in several European Universities: from 2013 to 2014, at “La Sapienza” University of Rome; from 2014 to 2017, at Utrecht University (The Netherlands); from 2017 to 2019, at the Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium – “Marie Curie Action – Move in Louvain”); from 2020, at the University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara. She is a member of the AIPD-Italian Association of Palaeographers and Diplomatists. Her main research interests and activities focused on the study of autograph documents and letters of Late Medieval and Renaissance Italian artists (within prof. Luisa Miglio’s project “La Scrittura e l’Arte”) and on inscriptions connected with early medieval devotional practices of the cult of saints and relics. She is contributing to the publication of the national epigraphic series IMAI-Inscriptiones Medii Aevi Italiae (secc. VI-XII) promoted by the Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo di Spoleto.
She was part of the Junior Research Staff from 15 May 2022 to 14 May 2024
Chiara Rosso
Chiara Rosso is a palaeographer, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Graff-IT project “Writing on the Margins. Graffiti in Italy (7th – 16th centuries)” at the “Gabriele D’Annunzio” University of Chieti. After graduating in Philology, Literatures and History of the antiquity (2019) at the University of Turin with a thesis in Latin Palaeography, she obtained her PhD in Latin and Greek Palaeography at Sapienza University of Rome (2019) with the thesis “The manuscripts of St. Columbanus monastery in Bobbio at the National University Library of Turin. Critical study and catalogue”. Before joining the Graff-IT project, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turin, Department of Historical Studies, and for the ERC PAGES project hosted at Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Classics. She is a member of the Italian Association of Palaeographers and Diplomatists and of the Italian Association of Dated Manuscripts.
Her research within the Graff-IT project mainly concerns the census of Medieval and Renaissance graffiti in North-west Italy.
She was part of the Junior staff until August 2026
Pier Paolo Trevisi
Pier Paolo Trevisi is PhD in Literature, Library Sciences, Linguistics and International Communications at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, where he currently works as Postdoc. He got his master’s degree in Modern Philology at the same University, in 2015, with a thesis entitled “I graffiti della Basilica di S. Francesco d’Assisi” (110 cum laude). In 2020, he defended his PhD thesis (within the field of Sciences of Book and Writing) entitled “Graffiti e iscrizioni parietali: testimonianze tardo-medievali e moderne lungo gli antichi tracciati della viabilità umbra”. From 2015 to 2017, he was scientific responsible for the project of the Soprintendenza dei Beni Storici, Etnico Artistici della regione Umbria, entitled “I graffiti della Basilica di San Francesco di Assisi”, (cod. 2015.0174.021 Arte, Attività e Beni Culturali), supported by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia. From 2020 to 2021, he was scientific responsible for the project of the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio dell’Umbria, entitled “Testimonianze di scritture spontanee medievali e moderne lungo i sentieri umbri del pellegrinaggio” (cod. 19488 (2020.0353), Arte, Attività e Beni Culturali), supported by della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia. From 2021, he is curator of the thematic exhibition “Graffiti Umbri”, aimed at promoting, safeguarding and valorizing medieval and modern graffiti from the Umbria region.
He was part of the Junior staff until June 2025
Antonella Undiemi
Antonella Undiemi is a Medieval Epigraphist currently working as Post-doc at the University of Padua. After her graduation in History at the University of Palermo she got her master’s degree in 2010 in Medieval History at the University of Padua with a thesis entitled “Le iscrizioni medievali di Palermo” (tutores F. De Rubeis and N. Giovè). She got her PhD in Studi Storici, Geografici, Storico-religiosi at the University of Padua in 2014 with a thesis supervised by N. Giovè and F. De Rubeis focused on the study of inscriptions produced during the Norman period in Southern Italy, France and England. She also got the Diploma in Archives, Palaeography and Diplomatics at the State Archives of Palermo. She benefited from research grants at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where she worked as a post-doc within the ERC project ‘Petrifying Wealth’ (P. I. S. Carocci and A. Rodriguez), dealing with the census and cataloguing of inscriptions related to building transformations throughout Italy between the 11th and 13thcenturies.
Her research within the Graff-IT project focuses on the study of graffiti in the Scrovegni Chapel of Padua.
She was part of the Junior staff until September 2026
Antonello Vilella
Antonello Vilella is an epigrapher, currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher for the ERC Project Graff-IT “Writing on the Margins. Graffiti in Italy (7th – 16th centuries)”, hosted at the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences within the University of Chieti – Pescara. He holds a PhD in “Christian and Medieval Epigraphy” from the University of Bari (2023). Before this he completed the postgraduate Specializing School in Archaeology at the same institution (2019). Here he also obtained a 2-year MA in Archaeology (2016) and a 3-year BA in Sciences of Cultural Heritage (2014). He is Editor for the Epigraphic Database Bari, an online database offering digital editions of inscriptions by Christians from Rome datable from the 3rd to the 8th centuries CE (https://www.edb.uniba.it/). He is the appointed editor of the volume(s) concerning the edition of Medieval inscriptions from the Città Metropolitana di Bari for the “Inscriptiones Medii Aevi Italiae (secc. VI-XII)”, a corpus fostered by the Foundation of the “Centro Italiano di Studi per l’Alto Medioevo” of Spoleto, Italy (CISAM). Alongside other colleagues he is preparing an edition of the Medieval epigraphical documentation of the city of Bari for said corpus. He has been Research Fellow in Ancient History at the DFG Center for Advanced Study “RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies” at the University of Hamburg from June to November 2023. He also served as an advisor to the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – Abteilung Rom in the frame of the project “Kollektive Bestattungen in Rom zwischen später Republik und Spätantike”, investigating the inscriptional evidence from the third columbarium at the Vigna Codini and the Jewish catacomb which flourished under the Vigna Randanini (both in Rome). His research field of study spans from Late Antique to Medieval epigraphy, publishing scientific articles and giving talks (for national and international audiences) on inscriptional material from both periods. He also devotes attention to Digital Humanities and Digital Epigraphy.
His scientific output is available here: https://unich-it.academia.edu/AntonelloVilella.
Enrico Zimei
Enrico Zimei is a postdoctoral researcher for the ERC Graff-IT project “Writing on the Margins. Graffiti in Italy (7th – 16th centuries)” at the “Gabriele D’Annunzio” University of Chieti. He graduated in Letters from the “La Sapienza” University of Rome with a thesis on Medieval History supervised by Prof. Edith Pásztor, and obtained his PhD in Romance and Italian Philology at the same university, defending a dissertation on the segmentation of the graphic chain in Old Provençal manuscripts (supervisor Prof. Roberto Antonelli). He received a scholarship from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland by appointment of the Italian Foreign Office. In the field of digital humanities, he has worked at the Department of Romance Studies at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Calabria (Rende, Cosenza). He has published studies in Latin and Romance philology, particularly in the Occitan and Italian linguistic areas. His research also currently focuses on vernacular historiography and hagiography.
He was part of the Junior staff until May 2025
PhD students
Alice Di Cocco
Alice Di Cocco is PhD candidate in Cultural Heritage Studies: Texts, Writings, Images, at the University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara. Her research subject deals with the “Study of graffiti in underground environments of natural origin in Southern Italy (tutor Prof. Carlo Tedeschi). At the same University she obtained, cum laude, the bachelor’s degree in Literature (2020) and the master’s degree in Philology, Linguistics and Literary Traditions (2022), in both cases with a thesis in Italian Linguistics, under the supervision of prof. Emiliano Picchiorri. Her MA thesis was devoted in particular to the edition and commentary of the fourteenth-century Statutes of the Sea of Ancona. She also attended a training course at the OVI (Opera del Vocabolario Italiano), during which she wrote several entries of the TLIO (Treasure of the Italian Language of Origins).
Her research interests concern ancient Italian, historical grammar and lexicography, as well as Italian dialectology, with particular regard to the central-southern system.
E-mail: alice.dicocco@studenti.unich.it
He was part of the Junior staff until May 2025
Vittoria Sichetti
Vittoria Sichetti is PhD candidate in Cultural Heritage Studies: Texts, Writings, Images, at the University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara. Her research subject deals with the “Antiquarian graffiti of the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum and the monuments in Rome. Census, edition and methodologies of conservation.” (tutor Prof. Carlo Tedeschi). At the same University she obtained the bachelor’s degree in Literature (2019) and the master’s degree, cum laude, in Philology, Linguistics and Literary Traditions (2021), discussing in the first time a thesis on Romance Philology (tutor Prof. Maria Careri) and on Italian literature (tutor Prof. Antonio Sorella) in the second. Her MA thesis was devoted in particular to the analysis of the writing of the word “uopo” in Pietro Bembo’s manuscripts.
She taught humanities for two years at the high schools of Perugia, Bergamo and Pescara.
She published an article based on her MA thesis on “Tipofilologia”, an international review around printed texts of Italian and European literature.
Her research focuses on Roman graffiti in the early modern age, with a particular interest on a paleographic and philological perspective.
E-mail: vittoria.sichetti97@gmail.com
ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. Simone ALLEGRIA (G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, IT)
Prof. Frances ANDREWS (University of St Andrews, GB)
Prof. Serenella BAGGIO (University of Trento, IT)
Prof. Massimiliano BASSETTI (University of Bologna, IT)
Dr. Elisa BASTIANELLO (Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome, IT)
Prof. Emilia CALARESU (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT)
Prof. Antonio CASTILLO GÒMEZ (University of Alcalá, ES)
Dr. Clément DUSSART (University of Poitiers, FR)
Prof. Antonio Enrico FELLE (University of Bari, IT)
Prof. Paolo FIORETTI (University of Bari, IT)
Prof. Béatrice FRAENKEL (EHESS, Paris, FR)
Dr. Estelle INGRAND-VARENNE (University of Poitiers, FR)
Prof. Barbara LOMAGISTRO (University of Florence, IT)
Prof. Marco MAGGIORE (University of Pisa, IT)
Prof. Marco MOSTERT (University of Utrecht, NL)
Prof. Paola Luisa POGLIANI (University of Tuscia, IT)
Prof. Véronique B. PLESCH (Colby College, Waterville, USA)
Dr. Roberto ROTONDO (Soprintendenza Nazionale per il patrimonio culturale subacqueo, IT)
Prof. Raffaella SARTI (University of Urbino, IT)
Prof. Cécile TREFFORT (University of Poitiers, FR)