My general interest is the Greek world after Alexander, and in
particular the history and institutions of Asia Minor.
I worked on the relationship between Hellenistic kings and cities
in Asia Minor and on the royal projects concerning constitutions
and political organization of the cities as reflected in Greek
inscriptions. Cf. Progetti di riforme costituzionali
nelle epigrafi greche dei secoli IV-II a.C., Bologna 2003. I
studied institutional issues related to the status of lands and
territories, to the union of different political bodies, and to the
relationship of philia kai symmachia between kings and
cities in Hellenistic Asia Minor.
I am working on the political communication between Hellenistic
kings and cities in Asia Minor and the Near East and on the
Seleukid and Attalid royal letters. Cf. Il re scrive,
la città iscrive. La pubblicazione su pietra delle epistole regie
nell'Asia ellenistica., in: Studi Ellenistici, 24, Pisa 2010,
pp. 149 - 178; The King's Words: Hellenistic Royal Letters
in Inscriptions, in K. Radner (ed.), State Correspondence in
the Ancient World. From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire,
Oxford - New York 2014, pp. 141-171,
235-243.
As a longer term project I am part of an international group
(King's College London – Centre for Hellenic Studies and Department
of Digital Humanities; Université Paris IV Sorbonne – Centre de
recherche sur la Libye antique; University of Bologna; University
of Macerata) devoted to the digital edition of the
inscriptions of ancient Libya (InsLib). The digital edition
of the Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica (IGCyr) started in
2011. I contributed content for the launch in September 2014
of Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica / Greek Verse
inscriptions of Cyrenaica (IGCyr/GVCyr) demo website, dal 2017 open access publication IGCyr / GVCyr,
developed and maintained by the CRR-MM University of
Bologna.
I am in charge of the edition of the Greek inscriptions from
Ravenna for the Epigraphic Database Roma (EDR).
I founded Hellas Unibo, a markup Laboratory dealing with inscriptions and papyri.
