A few random things. Like my instagram feed, my series of videos "Pokémon a Prìsto", some things of mine that have been published online, and some translation projects that I started and that I will probably never finish.

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View fullsize Disapproving Philologists: a Visual Essay. Paragoni trans-storici intorno all’iconografia di una professione. Feat. W.S. Scanderborough, Maria Corti, Cesare Segre, and D’Arco Silvio Avalle. #Philology #Philologists #EvilGaze #MariaCorti
View fullsize Ok, admittedly there’s more to Oregon than just infernal turkeys and writing deadlines 🌊 #oregoncoast #camping #naturephotography #ocean #rocks #beach #beachday #trees #sea #horizon
View fullsize I think the best thing I wrote during this dense and transformational year of research leave is this weird and dreamy reportage of my visit at @stanford.dlcl to talk about necromancy, philology, collage, and fascism. 3,000 words about walking away
View fullsize Italian mini trip via Seattle with insanely cool kicks, renewed psychedelic wisdom, bilingual poetry, alma mater neoavantgarde nostalgia, and general loving vibes. Seattle, Lake Union, American Academy in Rome, Mameli (@michimurgia’s crib), Sc
View fullsize First time to California ever. The most delightful work+fun trip of 2022. Things that I learned: California is really Roma Sud, I like Palo Alto very much, with age I acquired the ability to get sunburnt, and San Francisco is as cool as they say. It
View fullsize «L’interesse del Conte per gli uomini somigliava a quello che gli uomini nutrivano per i fantasmi» It took some time, because there are things that one needs to do properly—and also because this book counts over 400 pages! Ma
View fullsize Ebbene sì, from July on I will move to New Haven to be an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Yale University, the place where frisbees were invented! Leaving my job at Bryn Mawr, where I have been very happy, is hard, but I do not plan
View fullsize A little series of “quanto mi piace sta cosa” with a few items that I have received or purchased or retrieved in this weird extended unexpected Roman sojourn. Thx @michimurgia , @cambio_trastevere , @martacirello , #mimadre, @missoni , @e
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POKéMON A BRYMMò

A new exciting series of non-human sightings, this time in Montgomery county (PA), 2018-ongoing

POKéMON A PRìSTO

My encounters with the fauna of Central NJ, 2015-2018

 
 

Caccia all'Ofidorca

A (barely started) translation of Lewis Carrol's The Hunting of the Snark into Italian chivalric octaves—sadly interrupted after a couple of pages, and the last few verses are really not great :(