Rector Ca' Foscari University Venice, Professor of Classical Chinese, Religions and Philosophy of China at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University Venice (L-OR/21)

Her research focuses on classical Chinese ethics, divination and mantic practices.

Her recent publications are: “Why Was the Historian Shen Yue (441-513) so fond of Auspicious Signs and Prophecies?” International Journal of Divination & Prognostication, 3 (2021), Brill,pp. 1-44. “China too has its Aristotle: The Zhongyong (Sinarum Scientia Politico-Moralis) and the Jesuits’ fascination with Confucius”, Itineraria, 19, 2020, pp. 105-126, pp. 105-126.“The Paradigms of Religious and Philosophical Plurality: the Return of ‘Spirituality’ in China Today”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 44, no 3, 2018, pp. 1-11.

Her major publications include Auspicious Omens and Miracles in Ancient China：Han, Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties, Monumenta Serica, Monograph Series, XXXIX, Sankt Augustin 2001, the Italian translation of the Lunyu (2003, repr. 2006) and the Italian translation of Zhongyong (La costante pratica del giusto mezzo, Marsilio, Venezia 2010).