My recent studies are mainly concerned with the relationships between language, history and cognition. In my recent book‘Economy’ in European History. Words, Contexts and Change over Time (Bloomsbury Academic: London 2022), I reconstructed the evolution of the term-concept ‘economy’ from Ancient Times to Modern History, highlighting the impact that language has on interpretation of texts and, as a consequence, on the relation past-present and on historical methods. Following on this line of analysis two articles delved into the terms-concepts ‘oeconomy’ and ‘political economy’ in Adam Smith’s writing (‘The Term ‘Political Oeconomy’ in Adam Smith’, Intellectual History Review, 31 (2), 2021: 321-339; and ‘“Oeconomy” and “Political Oeconomy” in The Theory of Moral Sentiments and in The Wealth of Nations’, The Adam Smith Review, 13, 2023: 184-202).

This theoretical perspective has led me to an interpretation of history as a translation of the past. In 2023, I edited a volume entitled History as a Translation of the Past. Case-Studies from the West (Bloomsbury Academic) in which some distinguished historians and translation scholars have fascinatingly explored this approach to history. I am also bringing attention to the relationships between language, history and temporality; two articles on ‘History as Translation / Anachronism as Synchronism’, Rethinking History 27, no. 4, 2023: 664-683 (DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2023.2229685) and on ‘Language – History – Presence’, History and Theory 63, no. 3, 2024: 366-383 (https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12351) offer further insights on this approach to history.

I was the Scientific Director of the International Conference ‘Synchronizing History. The Transplantation of European Ideas in the Americas’ (Palermo, 18-21 September 2024) and I am currently the Scientific Director (with Evelyne Azevedo) of the International Conference ‘Synchronizing History. The Transplantation of American Ideas in Europe’, scheduled to be held in Rio de Janeiro (17-19 September 2025).