- Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Religions et systèmes de pensée, Department MemberUniversità Degli Studi Di Roma Tre, Filosofia, comunicazione e spettacolo, Department Member, and 2 moreadd
- Medieval Philosophy, Medioevo, High Middle Ages, Abbo of Fleury, Medieval Arithmetic, Pythagoreanism, and 26 moreNeopythagoreanism, Neoplatonism, Boethius, Gerbert of Aurillac, Medieval Latin Texts of Computus, Macrobius, Martianus Capella, Plato's Timaeus, Eriugena, Medieval Theology, Twelfth-century schools, Twelfth-Century 'Renaissance, Alto Medioevo, Thierry of Chartres, The school of Chartres, Hermetic Corpus, Asclepius, Hermes Trismegistus and Hermetica, History Of Platonic Tradition, Boezio, Cicerone, Agostino, Severino Boezio, Altomedioevo, History Of Computing, Boethius De institutione musica libri quinque De musica Boethian Glosses Boethius De institutione arithmetica libri duo De arithmetica Carolingian manuscripts Scribal Errors •, Abbon de Fleury, and History of Mathematicsedit
- I am a Mellon Fellow (Postdoc) at the PIMS in Toronto. My research investigates the development of arithmetical teach... moreI am a Mellon Fellow (Postdoc) at the PIMS in Toronto. My research investigates the development of arithmetical teaching and learning by focusing on the pivotal role of Boethius' De arithmetica. My aim is to reconstruct the ‘chain of commentaries’ chronologically placed between the 9th and the 12th century.
Ph.D. in Medieval Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. My thesis concerns the Boethian arithmetic in the early Middle Ages. More precisely I focus on the arithmetic work written by Abbo of Fleury and Ramsey in the 10th century: the Commentary on the Calculus of Victorius of Aquitaine.
Master degree in Philosophy, with a thesis in History of Medieval Philosophy: Thierry of Chartres' Tractatus de sex dierum operibus, his natural philosophy (physica), arithmology and henology.
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, with a thesis in History of Medieval Philosophy: the role of transcendental 'bonum' in Thomas Aquinas' Expositio libri Boethii De hebdomadibus.edit - Cecilia Panti (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Irene Caiazzo (EPHE, CNRS)edit
Britain's Early Philosophers – A two day workshop at Durham University. Who were Britain’s earliest philosophers? What were Alcuin of York’s contributions to philosophy? To what extent can we consider thinkers such as Hild, Bede,... more
Britain's Early Philosophers – A two day workshop at Durham University.
Who were Britain’s earliest philosophers? What were Alcuin of York’s contributions to philosophy? To what extent can we consider thinkers such as Hild, Bede, Cuthbert, Gildas, and Cædmon philosophers? How did philosophy reach Britain? Who was reading it, who was writing it, who was teaching it, who was learning it? In this seminal exploratory workshop, we will be considering these questions as well as other questions such as: What counts as philosophy in the early medieval British period? What are the boundary/ies between philosophy and theology? Is there a specifically/uniquely early British philosophical tradition? Just who was reading Alfred’s translation of Boethius?
Who were Britain’s earliest philosophers? What were Alcuin of York’s contributions to philosophy? To what extent can we consider thinkers such as Hild, Bede, Cuthbert, Gildas, and Cædmon philosophers? How did philosophy reach Britain? Who was reading it, who was writing it, who was teaching it, who was learning it? In this seminal exploratory workshop, we will be considering these questions as well as other questions such as: What counts as philosophy in the early medieval British period? What are the boundary/ies between philosophy and theology? Is there a specifically/uniquely early British philosophical tradition? Just who was reading Alfred’s translation of Boethius?
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The second of four sessions exploring Durham, Cathedral Library, MS Hunter 100: a scientific compendium of the early 12th century. From codicology to art history, historical networks, and the local circumstances of the manuscript to... more
The second of four sessions exploring Durham, Cathedral Library, MS Hunter 100: a scientific compendium of the early 12th century. From codicology to art history, historical networks, and the local circumstances of the manuscript to computistcal analysis and the context of monastic learning. This session is concerned with the scientific and historical content of the manuscript, their relation to each other and the wider implications for the intellectual context of the compilation.
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This paper focuses on the exegetical proposal of the Tractatus de sex dierum operibus by Thierry of Chartres and it is tasked with analyzing the twofold interpretative framework adopted by the Cancelor: first, the accordance betweenthe... more
This paper focuses on the exegetical proposal of the Tractatus de sex dierum operibus by Thierry of Chartres and it is tasked with analyzing the twofold interpretative framework adopted by the Cancelor: first, the accordance betweenthe narration of Genesis and the heuristic models of physical and cosmological causality; second, the mathematical theology, which revises the work of creation according to an arithmological approach. The study is divided into two parts which follow the structure of the Tractatus. In the first part, I analyse the physical plausibility of Christian cosmogony and subsequently the conception of matter with regard to both William of Conches’ inordinatum and the hermetic locus mundi. In the second part, I examine how the numerical discourse interprets the creatural unfolding and dependence on God, as well as the creation per verbum and the individuality of each created being. My purpose is threefold: first, to test the inner philosophical coherence of the Tractatus; second, to interpret specific theoretical points at the light of Thierry’s commentaries on Boethius’ De Trinitate, and finally, to relate the arithmetical issues of the Tractatus to Thierry's Commentum super Arithmeticam Boethii.
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The present paper is tasked with analyzing the second part of Plato’s Parmenides by focusing on some mathematical issues debated within the eight deductions of the two hypoteses. Aiming at extending the sense of “gymnastic”, three main... more
The present paper is tasked with analyzing the second part of Plato’s Parmenides by focusing on some mathematical issues debated within the eight deductions of the two hypoteses. Aiming at extending the sense of “gymnastic”, three main topics are here addressed. First, the correspondence between the gymnasia in Plato’s Parmenides and the gymnazein en mathemasi pollois in Plato’s Republic. Second, understanding part of the mathematical background of the deductions conducted by the Eleatic philosopher. Third, examining the antanairetic example of “yunger-older”. For the purpose of identifying the link between the dialogues, it must be recognized that in both of them the discursive thought of mathematics presents the same threefold goal: it tends to the eidetic sphere; it performs a preparatory function with regard to philosophy; it is able to improve logical skills. Then, geometric figure, contact and generation of numbers are considered in order to shed light on how mathematical thought is developed in the Parmenides. Finally, the ratio of logistike, as it is provided in the Republic, is applied to the subject of the hypoteses – the one – which is said to become simultaneously older and younger with respect to itself.
