Education
01/11/2015 - 19/12/2018 Bachelor Degree in Storia, Antropologia, Religioni (History, Anthropology, Religions) at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, Art, Performance; due to my Bachelor grades I was selected for the “excellence program”, which is a possibility reserved for deserving students to attend additional courses and to obtain a university tax relief; grade: 110/110 cum laude
01/11/2018 - 22/09/2021 Master Degree in Scienze storico-religiose (Historical-Religious Studies) at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, Art, Performance; title of Master Degree Thesis: «Il ruggito della fiera». Divinazione e presagi nel Codice Fiorentino e nella tradizione missionaria” («The Roaring of the Beast». Divination and Omens in the Florentine Codex and in the Missionary Sources); thesis supervisor: Sergio Botta, thesis co-supervisor: Alessandro Lupo; grade: 110/110 cum laude
01/11/2021 - 31/03/2022 Advanced training course in “Pluralismo religioso e sapere storico - PluReS” (“Religious pluralism and historical knowledge - PluReS”) at Fscire - Foundation for Religious Studies (Fscire - Fondazione per le scienze religiose), Bologna, Italy
01/11/2022 - present Phd in in Global Histories, Cultures, and Politics (38th cycle) at the University of Bologna; provisional title of the research project: "Divination and Omens in the Novohispanic Missionary Tradition between Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. A Comparative Look to the Hispanic Magical-Divinatory Treatises"; supervisor: Sergio Botta; co-supervisor: Vincenzo Lavenia
Research activities
01/10/2021 - 31/12/2021 Scholarship recipient ‒ assigned through selection based on qualifications ‒ for the research project “A global theory of religion in the work of Lorenzo Pignoria: an historical-religious perspective” (Project of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 2018-in progress); aim of the research activity: collection and comparative analysis of manuscript and printed sources linked to the work of Lorenzo Pignoria
Publications
A.M. D'Amato,
Comparazione analogica e neutralizzazione dell'alterità religiosa nelle Imagini de gli dei indiani
di Lorenzo Pignoria, in «Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni», 88/2 (2022), pp. 559-587.
