A graduate in 1996 from the Faculty of Jurisprudence in Florence in the History of Italian Law. PhD in Computing and the Information Society from the University of Florence. In 1997 he started to work for the Institute for Legal Documentation of the Florence NRC, initially on a project aimed at creating a historic databank of legal documents, then on projects in the field of “legimatics” and tools for the automatic drafting and quality control of legal and administrative deeds. In the course of 2001, still within the framework of the Institute for Legal Documentation of the Florence NRC, he took part in the Norme in Rete [Regulations on the Net] project, in particular taking care of the development of the Catalogue of Regulations.
Since 2011 he has been a researcher at ITTIG [Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques] and is the author of more than 150 publications including articles in Italian and international magazines, conference proceedings, monographs, reports to international and national conferences and seminars, technical reports, and feasibility studies. Responsible for the NRC module Semantic index for the Italian legal lexicon, he continues to work on tools to help in the drafting of legal and administrative acts.