Francesca Cupelloni

Francesca Cupelloni is a Researcher in Italian Linguistics (LIFI-01/A) at the Department of Modern Literature and Culture, Sapienza University of Rome. Qualified as an Associate Professor in 2023, she graduated in History of the Italian Language (2017) and earned her PhD (2020) at Sapienza, supervised by Luca Serianni. She has held scholarships at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and been a visiting scholar at the University of Lausanne (2019).

Her research focuses on Italian language history (early centuries), lexicography, and gastronomic vocabulary, particularly 14th-15th-century Florentine and Middle Latin/vernacular gastronomic terms. She contributes to projects like the digital Autographs of Italian Writers (www.autografi.net), editing Lorenzo de' Medici's autograph letters with linguistic commentary, and collaborated on the PRIN 2017 AtLiTeG project.

Recent publications include articles in VoSLIG. Historical Vocabulary of the Italian Gastronomy Language (2024), studies on Antonio Pucci's Danteisms, Leopardi's lexical borrowings, and historical syntax in Lorenzo de' Medici's epistles. She serves on the scientific committees of journals Interpres and Dante, and collaborates with the Germanisms section of the Lessico Etimologico Italiano (LEI).