Faculty of letters and philosophy

Federico Ricci

Federico Ricci received his bachelor’s degree in history (2020) and master’s degree in Historical Sciences (2022), specializing in history of political institutions at the University of Bologna. In 2021 he was the winner of an Erasmus grant at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Lorenzo Moscardini

He has been a PhD student in Italian studies since 2022. His PhD project consists in a study of the reception of the French novel in Italy in the second half of the 19th century. His research interests include the history and theory of the novel, the work and legacy of Giacomo Leopardi and the reception of classical literature.

Sofia Livi

Sofia Livi is a PhD student in Philosophy of Mind at Scuola Normale Superiore. She has held visiting positions at York (University of York), Rome (Sapienza University of Rome), and Pavia (IUSS).

Her primary research areas include the philosophy of perception, with a specific focus on the affective dimensions of perceptual experience. Her dissertation is about smell and the sense of the self. She is also interested in the topics of interoception and embodied experience more generally.