Humanistic Italy and sixteenth-century Muscovy in dialogue: Digitization and digital mapping of the work of Maximus the Greek
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Unit of Pisa

Francesca Romoli
Principal Investigator

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Francesca Romoli is an Associate Professor of Slavistics at the University of Pisa. She completed her studies at the University of Florence and at La Sapienza University of Rome. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg (DE) and Visiting Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (EL). She serves on the scientific committees of the series “Europe in between” (FUP) and the CESECOM (Centre for Central, Balkan and Eastern European Studies). She has participated in various national and international research groups and has presented at numerous conferences in Italy and abroad. Her main research interests lie in the scriptural culture of the East Slavic Middle Ages, the lexicon of culture and, above all, the figure, literary heritage, and cultural legacy of Maximus the Greek. She has authored around seventy essays, published in scholarly journals and volumes, and two monographs and is editor of around ten volumes and journal sections. She is the creator and PI of the PRIN 2022 PNRR “MaximHum” (P2022837KN).

Marco Biasio
Research Fellow

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Marco Biasio holds a PhD in Slavic Linguistics from the University of Padua (Italy) and the University of Novi Sad (Serbia). Since 2018, he has presented his work at more than fifty scientific conferences in Italy and abroad, and has authored more than thirty contributions, including journal articles, volume and proceedings articles, and encyclopaedia entries. His current research interests include Slavic morphosyntax, formal semantics, pragmatics, the history of linguistics, the philosophy of language, and the literary heritage of Maximus the Greek. He has been an external collaborator of the research groups Slavicus since 2022 and PaVeDa – Pavia Verbs Database since 2023. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the Italian journal “Ricerche Slavistiche”. Nuova serie (ISSN 0391-4127) and has served as the chair of the Slavic Linguistics Society Executive Board since 2022. Within the PRIN 2022 PNRR “MaximHum” (P2022837KN) he collaborates as research fellow in the unit of Pisa.

Alessandro Goffi
Research Fellow

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Alessandro Goffi holds a degree in Russian Language and Literature from the University “Carlo Bo” of Urbino and the University “Ca’ Foscari” of Venice, with a dissertation about the Russian lexical influence on the Azerbaijani and Kalmyk languages. He worked as a translator, interpreter, and subtitler. He was awarded an Overseas Scholarship at the Astrakhan State University (Russian Federation) and an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship at the Azerbaijan University of Languages of Baku (Azerbaijan). He has authored one scientific article and participated in two international conferences. His main research interests are Slavic Philology and Contact Linguistics. Within the PRIN 2022 PNRR “MaximHum” (P2022837KN) he collaborates as research fellow in the unit of Pisa.

Letizia Ricci
Research Fellow

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Letizia Ricci holds a degree in Digital Humanities from the University of Pisa. She is co-editor of some scientific papers about the XML-TEI encoding activities of historical postcards and semantic analysis of terms in medieval Latin for AIUCD – Italian Association of Digital Humanities conferences. She collaborated in the ERC-Ars Nova project “European Ars Nova: Multilingual Poetry and Polyphonic Song in the Late Middle Ages” for the XML-TEI marking activity of the critical editions of the 14th century poetic texts in Italian, French and Latin. Her academic interest is the interaction between web technologies and philology. Within the PRIN 2022 PNRR “MaximHum” (P2022837KN), she collaborates as research fellow in the unit of Pisa.

Teresa Lombardi
PhD Student

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Teresa Lombardi holds a degree in Russian Literature and Slavic Philology from the University of Florence. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Slavistics at the University of Pisa. Since 2023, she has presented her research at three international and doctoral conferences in Italy. Her main research interests are the cultural exchanges between Muscovy and Italy in the 15th-16th 
centuries, Slavic philology, Slavic folklore, feminine figures in Russian literature and history. Within the framework of the 
PRIN 2022 PNRR “MaximHum” (P2022837KN), she is currently collaborating as a research fellow in the unit of Pisa.

Unit of Chieti – Pescara

Maria Chiara Ferro
Associated PI

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Maria Chiara Ferro, an Associate Professor of Slavistics at the University of Chieti-Pescara, completed her studies at the University of Florence and earned her PhD at La Sapienza University of Rome. She was a Visiting Researcher in Saint Petersburg and Visiting Professor in Szeged (Hungary). She serves on the scientific committees of the series “Europe in between” (FUP) and “Testi&Traduzioni” (Universitalia). She is a member of the CESECOM (Centre for Central, Balkan and Eastern European Studies). She has taken part in various national and international research groups and has presented at conferences in Italy and abroad. Her main research interests lie in the writing production of the East Slavic Middle Ages, the intellectual lexicon of Russian language, and issues concerning the teaching of Russian language and culture within the Italian university context. She has authored around fifty essays published in scholarly journals and volumes, one monograph, and two handbooks and is editor of five volumes and journal section. Within the PRIN 2022 PNRR “MaximHum” (P2022837KN) she is the associated PI of the research unit of Pescara.

Natalia Guseva
Research Fellow

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Natalia Guseva, PhD in Philology, completed her studies at the Kazan State Pedagogical Institute (Russian Federation) and received her doctorate from Saint-Petersburg State University (Russian Federation). She was an Adjunct Professor of Russian Language and Translation at the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy) and at the University of Macerata (Italy). Her main research interests focus primarily on Translation Studies, Intercultural Communication, Corpus Linguistics and Contrastive Pragmatics. She has presented her work at conferences in Italy and abroad. She has published several essays in peer-reviewed journals and volumes in Russia and Italy and one co-authored textbook. She participated in the SEAH (Sharing European Architectural Heritage) project where she contributed to the corpus formation. Within the PRIN 2022 PNRR “MaximHum” (P2022837KN) she collaborates as research fellow in the unit of Chieti-Pescara.

Beatrice Bindi
PhD Student

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Beatrice Bindi holds a degree in Slavic Philology from the University of Florence. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Slavic Philology and Linguistics at the University of Chieti-Pescara. Thanks to a DAAD scholarship, she spent six months researching at the University of Heidelberg. She is involved in the updating and maintenance of CESECOM (Centre for Central, Balkan and Eastern European Studies). Since 2022, she has presented her research at six international and doctoral conferences in Italy and abroad. Her main research interests are Slavic Philology, Linguistics (especially Historical Lexicology), Semantics and History of Ideas, Digital Humanities. Within the PRIN 2022 PNRR “MaximHum” (P2022837KN), She is currently collaborating as a research fellow in the unit of Pescara within the PRIN 2022 PNRR “MaximHum” (P2022837KN).

Unit of Bologna

Alberto Alberti
Associated PI

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Alberto Alberti is an Associate Professor of Slavic Philology at the University of Bologna. He completed his studies at the University of Bologna and at La Sapienza University of Rome. Member of the editorial board of the journal “Studi Slavistici” since 2004, he serves on the scientific committees of the series “Europe in between” (FUP) and the CESECOM (Centre for Central, Balkan and Eastern European Studies). He has presented at numerous conferences in Italy and abroad. His main research interests lie in the textual criticism of the Slavic Scriptures, with particular reference to the text of the Gospels. He has authored many essays published in scholarly journals and volumes, and one monograph devoted to the Bulgarian 14th century. Within the PRIN 2022 PNRR “MaximHum” (P2022837KN) he is the associated PI of the research unit of Bologna.

News & Events

13 June 2024, University of Pisa (IT) – First National Seminar PRIN 2022 PNRR P2022837KN “Humanistic Italy and sixteenth-century Muscovy in dialogue. Digitization and digital mapping of the work of Maximus the Greek”
2 July 2024

13 June 2024, University of Pisa (IT) – First National Seminar PRIN 2022 PNRR P2022837KN “Humanistic Italy and sixteenth-century Muscovy in dialogue. Digitization and digital mapping of the work of Maximus the Greek”

The first national seminar of the MaximHum project working group was held in Pisa on 13 June. The speakers were…

28 May 2024, Catania (IT) – 13th Annual National Conference of the Association for Humanistic Informatics and Digital Culture (AIUCD) “Me.Te. Digitali. Mediterraneo in rete tra testi e contesti”
2 July 2024

28 May 2024, Catania (IT) – 13th Annual National Conference of the Association for Humanistic Informatics and Digital Culture (AIUCD) “Me.Te. Digitali. Mediterraneo in rete tra testi e contesti”

On 28 May, at the 13th annual national conference of the Association for Humanistic Informatics and Digital Culture (AIUCD), the…

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Università di Pisa

Francesca Romoli
francesca.romoli@unipi.it

Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica
Via Santa Maria, 36
56126 Pisa (IT)

Università Gabriele d’Annunzio - Chieti-Pescara

Maria Chiara Ferro
maria.ferro@unich.it

Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne
Viale Pindaro 42
65127 Pescara (IT)

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Alberto Alberti
a.alberti@unibo.it

Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne
Via Cartoleria, 5
40124 Bologna (IT)

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