He also spent periods overseas in Belgium, working as a volounteer thourgh the EVS exchange program (European Voluntary Service), and Australia, working as internship in the Italian Institute of Culture Sydney.

He had various experiences in journalism, book publishing and culture: he wrote articles for newspapers and magazines; he also cooperated to prepare and write tv programs, tourist guides and movie festivals; he organized and took part to international linguistic congresses; he also worked as book publisher and is still playing the role of deputy president of Edizioni Pigreco.

Besides journalism, Francesco wrote also short novels, poems, and scientific articles (linguistics).

He likes to create and manage web sites: he also wroked sometimes for third parts (universities, cultural and sport clubs, private people).

Between May and December 2008 he worked at the European Student Mobility Programmes Office of the Università degli Studi Roma Tre.

In 2011 he got the PhD in italian linguistics at the Sapienza Università di Roma; hi wrote and defended a dissertation (advisors: Massimo Arcangeli and Luca Lorenzetti) about Temporal clauses in old italian (some part of which has been already presented at international congresses). In the frame of his research he spent some periods (2009, 2010) at the Université Stendhal in Grenoble (France) and at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz (Germany).

He is member of the Società Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana (SILFI). He takes also part to the editorial committee of the series Studi linguistici e di storia della lingua italiana (directors: Maurizio Dardano and Claudio Giovanardi) for the publisher Aracne (Rome). He wrote some articles on Repubblica.it and on other newspapers and webzines.

(last update: 13.8.2011)

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