Central research theme is Roman urbanization in central Apennines and its changes through centuries till Renaissance time.
This inner area was characterized by rather rough morphology and the Roman intervention strategy has been cautious and delayed compared to other areas of the peninsula.; for this reason a few Roman were . Among towns founded in more recent times, Peltuinum, lasts from 1st cent. B.C. until Late Antiquity, when a violent earthquake causes the end of the town system, which returns into small scattered settlements connected to religious imprint. Based on the recovered data, the investigation touches on various topics: from topographic and urban sphere to geological, economic, religious, and anthropological (cultural, physical) fields.
The results of the research every year allow a wider view of ancient local reality, showing the passage from the micro to the macro-history.
Both the peculiar geographical position and the geoidrological characteristics, since the prehistoric age defined the site as a safe stop point for humans and flocks. For this reason the city had a long life as trade center in Italy sheep tracks, even after the 5th c. AD seismic event, when, though losing the status of city, it maintains the customs function in the Middle Ages and in pre-unitary Italy.
Analysis of the subsequent urbanistic phases, allows to retrace not only the social and economic history of the area, but also the series of earthquakes which had consequences in the regional history and impacts on Rome too. Of particular relevance too is the relation with the actual seismic situation: the archaeological data of the 5th cent. earthquake in Peltuinum matches with other data in inner Abruzzo region, helping to draw times and repeating of earthquakes, aiming to seismic present research.
Research interest in social area in Late-Antiquity is carried on through osteological remains inside the theatre structures.
