Newcastle University

Visiting Lecturer, School of Historical Studies

About

I completed a Degree in Classics and Archaeology at Milan University (1998) and a 3 Years PG Diploma in Classical Archaeology at Milan University (2004). In 2010, I was awarded a PhD for my thesis, Architecture and sculpture at Hadrian's Villa (Rome, Italy), completed at the University of Perugia.

I am interested in the relation between sculpture and architecture and the disposition of sculptures as part of the planning projects of Roman imperial residences. My doctoral research focused on the criteria underlying the placing of statues and sculptural groups in niches and other architectural features within Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli, Rome) and examined the relationship between sculptures and the function, morphology and hierarchy of built spaces within the Villa.

Furthermore, my research focuses on broader transformations in the Roman economy as suggested by changes in the distribution and consumption of oil, wine and ‘garum’ fish sauce  across Northern Italy, from the Republican age to AD 2C.

Between 2004 and 2010 I was keeper at the Museo Civico di Crema e del Cremasco, Italy where I have carried out a research and conservation project on a collection of prehistoric, roman and medieval logboats. Aim of the project was to reconstruct the historical significance of the only surviving archaeological evidence of fluvial navigation along Adda and Oglio rivers. The project led to the setting of a permanent gallery in 2010.

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