Digital Humanities • Textual Scholarship • Scholarly Digital Editing • ICT Service & Project Management
I am a Digital Humanities scholar and District Leader at Dedalus S.p.A., working at the intersection of textual scholarship, digital philology, and large-scale ICT service governance.
My academic background (PhD, University of Palermo) and professional responsibilities in healthcare ICT (SDA Bocconi, Executive Master) converge in a research practice that integrates critical editing, TEI/XML modeling, genetic criticism, and AI-assisted philological methods.
My scholarly interests include authorial revision and genetic processes, intertextuality modeling, TEI-based ecosystems for scholarly communication, spatial humanities, and machine-assisted textual analysis for historical corpora.
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Textual Scholarship & Digital Philology
Authorial variants, revision dynamics, genetic criticism, descriptive and interpretative encoding, philological modeling. -
Scholarly Digital Editions
TEI/XML modeling; XSLT-based transformation pipelines; collation and variant management; dynamic editions; intertextual annotation. -
Data-informed Humanities & Corpus Design
NLP workflows for early modern and contemporary corpora; domain-specific lexica (fear, trauma, vulcanological terminology); geocritical analysis and literary cartography. -
TEI-driven DH Projects
Critical editions and textual corpora (Bertolucci, Vittorini, De Roberto, early modern religious literature); genetic dossiers; manuscript description; structural metadata. -
AI for Philology and DH
LLM-assisted collation, markup suggestion engines, semantic clustering, knowledge graph construction for textual traditions, and pedagogical applications in DH teaching.
Markup and DH Standards: TEI/XML, XSLT, HTML, CSS
Analytical and Programming Tools: AntConc, Voyant Tools, token-based analytical workflows
Data & Editing Ecosystems: Oxygen XML Editor, Git/GitHub, structured documentation workflows
ICT Management: SLA governance, risk assessment, process optimization, multi-team coordination in healthcare ICT
Other Tools: Linux environments, professional documentation design, video editing and DH visual communication
Dedalus S.p.A. (2025–present)
Responsible for the operational and strategic coordination of 85 service units, overseeing
- governance of regional healthcare ICT systems;
- service delivery and quality assurance frameworks;
- optimization of service processes and regional integration;
- leadership in complex, multi-client environments.
- Governance of regional clients; SLA monitoring and operational oversight
- Service Management for major healthcare institutions
- Data governance and process modeling in national healthcare projects
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PhD in Literary, Philological and Linguistic Studies
Textual Scholarship & Digital Philology — University of Palermo (2017) -
Executive Master in Healthcare and Social-care Management
SDA Bocconi School of Management (2014) -
MA in Modern Italian Literature (summa cum laude)
University of Palermo (2013)
University of Palermo & LUMSA
Courses taught:
- Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
- Theory and Methods of Digital Scholarly Editing
- Digital Humanities and Digital Philology
- Literary Didactics
- Italian Philology
- Contemporary Literature
- Digital Philology
Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Naples
- Digital editions, textual corpora, and vulcanological terminology
- Il Castello dell’anima (critical edition), Edizioni dell’Orso, 2015
- Dai testi cartacei ai testi virtuali — Umanistica Digitale, 2018
- Molteplicità testuale e movimenti compositivi nel ms. di Populonia, 2018
- I luoghi nei versi di Attilio Bertolucci — InVerbis, 2020
- Analisi informatizzata di Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta, 2019
Diffraction • Archetype • Authorial Correction • Variant Criticism • Authorial Variant • Critical Edition • Hyperedition • Philology • Dynamic Text • Pluriform Tradition • Diplomatic Edition • Interpretative Edition • Recentiores non deteriores
- Il filologo digitale e il futuro aziendale, Fonte Gaia Blog, 2015
- AIUCD 2019 (Udine) — Digital scholarly editing and university pedagogy
- AATI International Conference, Palermo 2017
- XVIII MOD Conference, Catania 2016
- XXVIII International Congress of Romance Linguistics & Philology, Rome 2016
- AIPI, Budapest 2016
- SIS, University of Oxford, 2015 — The “insane” manuscript of I Viceré
- Gozzano Conference — University of Philadelphia, 2015
- Italianistica 2.0 — Banja Luka 2014
- MOD XVI – Rome 2014
- Summer School of Textual Criticism – Ferrara 2016
- TEI P5 “zones” Workshop – Palermo 2016
- Organizer — Digital Humanities Winter School, University of Palermo (2019)
- Organizer — TEI P5 Workshop, University of Palermo (2016)
- Scientific supervision for:
- critical editions (Bertolucci, Vittorini, De Roberto)
- TEI encoding projects and DH corpora
- literary cartography and geocritical analysis
- genetic dossiers and manuscript-based research