His investigations can be ascribed to three large research fields:
- Geography of ancient world: analyzing above all the writings of Strabo, Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy, he investigates both the organization and the perception of the space on Roman time. The regions he especially focuses on are the Balkan-Danubian provinces and the Augustan Regio VIII. A peculiar topic in this matter is the reconstruction of the Argonauts’ voyage according toancient literary sources.
- Institutions and social history: thanks to the irreplaceable aid of the inscriptions, he investigates the economy, the society and the political structures of those territories under the Roman rule. Phenomena being taken into account are, for instance, Romanization in its different aspects, imperial cult, promotion of indigenous communities and migrations. The usually studied areas are Roman Dalmatia and Emilia-Romagna Region in Antiquity. Apropos it the fellow is entrusted with the task of redacting files concerning the sites for the international project “AdriAtlas: Atlas informatisé de l'Adriatique antique”. Under this category should be comprised the project about the imperial house in the epigraphic evidence of Dalmatia, which enables the fellow to investigate the perception of the center of power in a provincial society.
- late-antique epigraphic habit: from the so-called crisis of the 3rd century the approach to epigraphy changed deeply and the fellow studies in particular the new way of honoring emperors and high-ranking people in the cities undergoing a radical process of transformation.
All the publications you can find can be ascribed to one of these research themes.
