Marco Biffi

Biography

He graduated in Florence in Italian History (110/110 and praise) and subsequently obtained his Master's degree at the Scuola Normale di Pisa (70/70 and praise). At the Italian Department of Italian Studies at the University of Florence he was granted a research grant from 2000 to 2004 and later a researcher of fixed-term research from 2004 to 2007. From 2001 to 2007 he was a contract professor of "Elements of Computer Science For linguistics "and" Language Informatics "at the University of Florence, and from 2004 to 2008 a contract professor of" Humanities Informatics "at the University for Foreigners in Siena. From 2007 to 2014 he was a researcher (confirmed on the expiration of three years) at the Faculty of Arts (now Department of Philosophy and Literature) at the University of Florence and was an associate professor of "Italian Linguistics" during the three year degree in "Science Humanities for Communication "," History of the Italian Language "in the course of a three-year degree in History and" Italian Linguistics and Computer Science "in the Master's Degree in" Modern Philology ". Since December 2014 he is an associate professor of Italian Language. He is a member of the PhD School of Philology, Italian Literature, Linguistics, University of Florence. Since 2010, he has been a member of the CLIEO Scientific Committee of the University of Florence (Linguistics Center of History and Theoretical: Italian, European Languages ​​Oriental languages). His research activity focuses mainly on the study of the diacronic technical language (in particular architectural and machine language), the transmitted Italian (radio, television, transmitted written), the linguistics applied to the history of the language. The themes of the study include the analysis of the language of specific authors: Boccaccio, Leon Battista Alberti, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Leonardo da Vinci, Benedetto Varchi. He has collaborated with numerous projects of national interest FIRB and PRIN overseeing the production of multimedia electronic corpses of Italian radio and television broadcasts, and databases of 19th-century Italian. In 2012 he was the National Coordinator of the PRIN 2008 Project "The Italian Television Portal: corpora, genres and communicative styles". From 2012 to 2013 she was the Head of the CLIEO Research Unit in the FIRB 2006 project "VIVIT: VIVI ITALIANO. Integrated digital archive of teaching materials, iconographic and multimedia documents and documents for the foreign language knowledge of the linguistic and historical-cultural heritage Italian, with particular regard to and destination for Italians abroad of second and third generation ". In 2012-2014 she was also responsible for the project "Institutional writing and communication with the public for effective written communication: from administrative acts to web writing - SICOP" (funded by the University of Florence, co-financed by the Tuscany Region , Project POR CRO FSE 2007? 2013 Axis IV - Human Capital). From 2014 to 2017 he was the Head of the Research Unit of the University of Florence for the PRIN 2012 project titled Corpus for a New Vocabulary of Modern and Contemporary Italian. Documentary sources, backdrops, innovations (PI: Claudio Marazzini). He is currently Head of the Research Unit of the University of Florence for the PRIN 2015 project titled Dynamic Vocabulary of Post-Unitarian Italian (PI: Claudio Marazzini). He directed, together with Massimo Fanfani, the project of the "Lycography of the Crusca in rete" (www.lessicografia.it), that is, the electronic version of the five editions of the Vocabulary of the Academics of Crusca, in line since 2005; And together with Paola Manni he directed the "Glossary of the Leonardian Nomenclature of Machines in the Madrid and Atlantic Codes" available in the portal "e-Leo Digital History of Technology and Science" (www.leonardodigitale.com), then Also published in print at Olschki in 2011. Since 1996 he has been working with the Accademia della Crusca in linguistic and computer linguistic activities: since 2002 he has been responsible for the website www.accademiadellacrusca.it (which he designed and directed in both 2002 and 2012); And since 2004, the year of its establishment, is responsible for the Academy's Computer Center. He has worked as computer consultant for the creation of various databases ("Fabbrica dell'italiano": www.fabbricadellitaliano.it; "Fund of quotations": www.citatinellacrusca.it; "Biblioteca Digitale": www.bdcrusca.it "Digital Archive": www.adcrusca.it, "Vocabulary of Contemporary Florentine": www.vocabolariofiorentino.org; "The Cinquecentines of Crusca": www.cinquecentine-crusca.org; " From the Sienese School to the Academy of Crusca ": www.opere-senesi.org;" Antologia Vieusseux. 1821-1832 ": www.antologia-vieusseux.org;" Sixteenth Century Art Treaties ": http://memofonte.accademiadellacrusca.org; and was the technical-scientific director of various projects:" Computer Research Tools and SIRCLI "(2004-2005)," Integrated Computer Archive: Bibliographic Services, Historical Lexicography "(2006-2007)," From Allinformatic Cards: Archives, Modern Archives, Website "(2007-2008), "Iconographic Digital Archive of the Academy of Crusca" (2007-2008), "Metamotor of Access to Digital Archives of the Academy of Crusca" (2008-2009), " 19th Century databases for the study of Italian "(2009-2010)," Italian Proverbs. An extensive database from the end of the sixteenth century to today "(2010-2011)," The Virtual Crusca and Preparatory Materials "(2011)," Realization of the Academy's new website "(2011-2012);" The words Of art from Leonardo to Vasari "(2013-2014). Since 2006 he has been a member of the Management Committee of the "Italian Grammar Studies" (Florence, Academy of Crusca). From the date of service at the University of Florence he has had various positions at various University facilities (including a member of the Presidium of the Faculty of Letters, the Area Committee for the Formation of New Departments, President The GAV of the three-year CdS of modern Letters and the Master CdS of Modern Fiilogy then). Since November 2015, he is Chairman of the Letters of CdS. From 2011 to 2016 he was a member of the University's Board of Directors.

Research Interest

Philology, Italian Literature, Linguistics