Team members

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

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).