Lena Radaljac studied at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade and later at the University of Padua, where in 2023 she earned a Master’s degree in Linguistics with a thesis in the History of the Italian Language, titled La “Composizione del mondo” by Restoro d’Arezzo: A Textual Analysis of the First Original Encyclopedia in the Vernacular (supervisor: Luca Zuliani; co-supervisors: Lorenzo Tomasin and Pär Larson). She also obtained a diploma from the Galilean School of Higher Education, a center of excellence at the University of Padua, with a thesis titled The (Not Only) Erotic Lexicon of Giorgio Baffo: Baffo’s component in the Historical-Etymological Dictionary of Venetian (supervisor: Lorenzo Tomasin). She spent research and study periods at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2020) and the University of Lausanne (2023) and completed training courses at the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano Institute (2022) and the University of Oxford (2023). Her main research interests include the history of the medieval Italian language, text linguistics, digital humanities, corpus linguistics, and Italian lexicography. Since 2023, she has been actively collaborating with the Historical-Etymological Dictionary of Venetian (Vocabolario storico-etimologico del veneziano).

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