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01.02.2025: Associate Professor of History of Medieval Philosophy, University of Bergamo, Bergamo.
01.02.2022 – 31.01.2025: Research fellow (RtdB) in History of Medieval Philosophy, University of Bergamo, Bergamo.
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01.10.2018-30.09.2021: Reseach fellow (RtdA) in History of Medieval Philosophy, University of Bergamo, Bergamo.
01.06.2018-30.09.2018: Research associate, King’s College London, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, research project “Authority & Innovation in Early Franciscan Thought (c. 1220-45)” [https://www.earlyfranciscans.com], London.
28.03.2017: National Scientific qulification for associate professorship, GSD 11/PHIL-05 – History of Philosophy – SSD PHIL-05/C – History of Medieval Philosophy [valid until 28.03.2028].
06.11.2026: National Scientific qualification for full professorship, Academic Field 11/C5 – History of Philosophy [valid until 06.11.2037].
TEACHING ACTIVITY
February 2021: Introduction to medieval and modern theology, Master PLURES, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
February 2020: University course “Introduction to medieval and early modern theolgoy”, Master PLURES, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
a.a. 2016/2017: course unit (6 hours) on “Anselm of Canterbury and his sources”, Course in History of Medieval Philosohy, Scuola di Lettere e Beni Culturali, “Alma Mater” – University of Bologna, Bologna.
a.a. 2016/2017: course unit (12 hours) on “The major historical development of the Italian Republica between 1946 and 1978”, Course of History of Italian Republic, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia.
a.a. 2015/2016: University course of History of Medieval Philosophy, Scuola di Lettere e Beni Culturali, “Alma Mater” – Università di Bologna, Bologna.
a.a. 2015/2016: Course unit (12 hours) on “Monotheistic Religions and religious studies”, Course of History of interreligious relations, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia.
a.a. 2014/2015: Course unit (12 hours) on “Monotheistic Religions and religious studies”, Course of History of interreligious relations, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia.
2014: Course unit (6 hours) on “The papal privilege in canonization”, High School in Religious Studies “G. Alberigo”, Fondazione per le scienze religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
2014: Course unit (6 hours) on “Bible, Manuscripts and Culture in Medieval Europe”, Course in Methodology of the scholarly research in humanities, Project Formazione in Smart Culture e Turismo, Università di Lecce, Lecce.
FORMAZIONE E BORSE
01.10.2022 – 31.10.2022: Visiting Scholar, Schonberg Institute della University of Pennsylvania
01.06.2016 - 31.05.2018: Post-doctoral fellowship, Istituto per la Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea del CNR, Cagliari.
15.05.2012-31.05.2016: Post-doctoral fellowship, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
15.01.2012-15.05.2012: Post-doctoral fellowship in History of Medieval Philosophy, Société International pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, United States.
01.10.2010-31.12.2011: Post-doctoral fellowship, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
01.10.2009-30.09.2011: Post-doctoral fellowship, ERL 7229 Moyen-Âge, Atelier Vincent de Beauvais: Encyclopédisme et transmission des connaissances, Université Nancy2, France.
01.11.2008-30.09.2009: Post-doctoral fellowship, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
30.05.2008: PhD in “Philosophical Disciplines”, University of Pisa, Pisa [title of the thesis: La psicologia dell’atto morale fra XII e XIII secolo con particolare riguardo alle dottrine di Filippo il Cancelliere e Ugo di Saint-Cher, direttore di tesi prof. Gianfranco Fioravanti].
01.03.2007-30.05.2007: Guest Research, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, project “A Genealogy of Morals: The Cardinal Virtues in the Middle Ages” (Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research, NOW e Radboud University Nijmegen), director dr. I.P. Bejczy.
28.10.2004: Degree in Philosophy, University of Pisa, Pisa [dissertation title: Il canone delle virtù: l’eredità antica e le trasformazioni medievali, direttore di tesi prof. Gianfranco Fioravanti, voto 110/110 summa cum laude].
COLLABORAZIONI SCIENTIFICO-EDITORIALI
2021-today: Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal I Castelli di Yale.
2021-today: Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Schola. Storia, Arte, Charitas a Venezia.
2019-today: Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Theandrites. Studies on Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism.
2019- 2022: Director of the journal Incontri.
2015-today: Columnist of Il Corriere Fiorentino.
2015-today: Columnist of Toscana oggi.
2024-today: Collaboratore de L’Osservatore Romano.
2024-today: Member of the Editorial board of the series , CUA University Press, Washington D.C.
2025-today: Member of the Advisory Board of the series TEMA (Textes et Études du Moyen Âge) della FIDEM (Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales).
AFFILIATIONS TO SCHOLARLY AND ACADEMIC SOCIETIES
2007-today: Member of the Société International pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (S.I.E.P.M.).
2010-today: Member of the Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale (S.I.S.P.M.)
2017-today: Member of the Medieval Academy of America (M.A.A.)
2017-today: Member of the Renaissance Society of America (R.S.A.)
2022 – today: Member of the Scientific Commitee of the Centro Studi Gioachimiti
2023 – today: Fellow of the Collegio Quaracchi
2024 – today: Member of the Council of the Istituto Storico Toscano della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea
2025-today: Member of the SISMEL (Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino).
PARTICIPATION TO RESEARCH PROJECTS
2023 – today: Substitute Principal Investigator e responsabile dell’unità locale (Università degli Studi di Bergamo) del PRIN 2022 Teaching and Learning Philosophy From the Italian Exception to the European Philosophical Heritage (TeLPh).
2022 – today: Critical edition of Book IV of the Summa fratris Alexandri, funded by the Fraternitas Foundation, Collegio dei Padri Editori Quaracchi.
2019-2023: Member of the research team of the ERC project ‘Authority & Innovation in Early Franciscan Thought (c. 1220-45)’ [https://www.earlyfranciscans.com].
2012-2023: Coordinato of the section 1150-1250 of the international research project “Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard” of the Socitété International pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale.
2006: Member of the project “Forme del commento filosofico dal tardo-antico al tardo Medioevo, secc. V-XVI: studio dottrinale ed edizione di testi”, Progetto di ricerca di interesse nazionale (PRIN) coordinator prof. Gianfranco Fioravanti.
ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND SUMMER SCHOOLS
02-04.10.2025: “International Conference. Desiring Knowledge: Philosophy in Bologna and the Regnum Italiae (1250-1450)”, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Bergamo. Conferenza conclusiva del progetto PRIN “TeLPh: Teaching and Learning Philosophy in the Regnum Italiae (1250-1450): from Exception to European Heritage”.
18.12.2023: “Da Dante a Cartesio. Uno sguardo agli studi in corso su Bruno Nardi”, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Bergamo.
13.10.2021: Filosofia e convivialità dall’antichità al Medioevo, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Bergamo.
21-22.11.2019: “Commentare il De interpretatione. Forme e contenuti del commento filosofico da Alessandro di Afrodisia al XIV secolo”, Università degli studi di Bergamo, Bergamo.
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24-28.08.2015: Organizzazione della Summer School del network internazionale Refo500 [http://www.refo500.com]su “Law, Rights and Religion facing the Reform”, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
9-10.06.2016: “Renaissance Religion II: Modes and Meanings in History”, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
28-29.11.2013: Convegno “Legge e natura. I dibattiti teologici e giuridici fra XV e XVII secolo”, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia – Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Modena-Bologna.
05-12.2011: Ciclo di lezioni “Cina e Cristianesimo dall’VIII secolo ad oggi”, Biblioteca comunale “A. Lazzerini”, Prato.
06.04.2011: “Attorno alla Bibbia di Marco Polo”, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Firenze.
16-18.07.2009: “Ad imaginem Dei. Foundations and objections within the discourse on human dignity”, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna – Rossena (RE).
MAJOR RESEARCH FIELDS
- Medieval Ethics, Metaphysics and Psychology (12th-13th centuries);
- The idea of nature and of natural law in Middle Ages and Early Modern period;
- The reception of Peter Lombard’s Sentences;
- History of the ecclesiastical and cultural institutions in Middle Ages;
- History of the doctrines on beatification and canonization;
- History of theology and religious thingking between 15th and 16th centuries, with a particular focus on the Camaldulensian tradition;
- History of the historiography on philosophy in the Middle Ages.
KNOWN LANGUAGES
Italian, English (speaking and writing), French (speaking and writing), German (reading), Classical and Medieval Latin, Ancient Greek.
SKILLS
Latin Paleography, Critical editing, Codicology.
01.02.2025: Associate Professor of History of Medieval Philosophy, University of Bergamo, Bergamo.
01.02.2022 – 31.01.2025: Research fellow (RtdB) in History of Medieval Philosophy, University of Bergamo, Bergamo.
.
01.10.2018-30.09.2021: Reseach fellow (RtdA) in History of Medieval Philosophy, University of Bergamo, Bergamo.
01.06.2018-30.09.2018: Research associate, King’s College London, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, research project “Authority & Innovation in Early Franciscan Thought (c. 1220-45)” [https://www.earlyfranciscans.com], London.
28.03.2017: National Scientific qulification for associate professorship, GSD 11/PHIL-05 – History of Philosophy – SSD PHIL-05/C – History of Medieval Philosophy [valid until 28.03.2028].
06.11.2026: National Scientific qualification for full professorship, Academic Field 11/C5 – History of Philosophy [valid until 06.11.2037].
TEACHING ACTIVITY
February 2021: Introduction to medieval and modern theology, Master PLURES, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
February 2020: University course “Introduction to medieval and early modern theolgoy”, Master PLURES, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
a.a. 2016/2017: course unit (6 hours) on “Anselm of Canterbury and his sources”, Course in History of Medieval Philosohy, Scuola di Lettere e Beni Culturali, “Alma Mater” – University of Bologna, Bologna.
a.a. 2016/2017: course unit (12 hours) on “The major historical development of the Italian Republica between 1946 and 1978”, Course of History of Italian Republic, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia.
a.a. 2015/2016: University course of History of Medieval Philosophy, Scuola di Lettere e Beni Culturali, “Alma Mater” – Università di Bologna, Bologna.
a.a. 2015/2016: Course unit (12 hours) on “Monotheistic Religions and religious studies”, Course of History of interreligious relations, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia.
a.a. 2014/2015: Course unit (12 hours) on “Monotheistic Religions and religious studies”, Course of History of interreligious relations, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia.
2014: Course unit (6 hours) on “The papal privilege in canonization”, High School in Religious Studies “G. Alberigo”, Fondazione per le scienze religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
2014: Course unit (6 hours) on “Bible, Manuscripts and Culture in Medieval Europe”, Course in Methodology of the scholarly research in humanities, Project Formazione in Smart Culture e Turismo, Università di Lecce, Lecce.
FORMAZIONE E BORSE
01.10.2022 – 31.10.2022: Visiting Scholar, Schonberg Institute della University of Pennsylvania
01.06.2016 - 31.05.2018: Post-doctoral fellowship, Istituto per la Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea del CNR, Cagliari.
15.05.2012-31.05.2016: Post-doctoral fellowship, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
15.01.2012-15.05.2012: Post-doctoral fellowship in History of Medieval Philosophy, Société International pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, United States.
01.10.2010-31.12.2011: Post-doctoral fellowship, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
01.10.2009-30.09.2011: Post-doctoral fellowship, ERL 7229 Moyen-Âge, Atelier Vincent de Beauvais: Encyclopédisme et transmission des connaissances, Université Nancy2, France.
01.11.2008-30.09.2009: Post-doctoral fellowship, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
30.05.2008: PhD in “Philosophical Disciplines”, University of Pisa, Pisa [title of the thesis: La psicologia dell’atto morale fra XII e XIII secolo con particolare riguardo alle dottrine di Filippo il Cancelliere e Ugo di Saint-Cher, direttore di tesi prof. Gianfranco Fioravanti].
01.03.2007-30.05.2007: Guest Research, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, project “A Genealogy of Morals: The Cardinal Virtues in the Middle Ages” (Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research, NOW e Radboud University Nijmegen), director dr. I.P. Bejczy.
28.10.2004: Degree in Philosophy, University of Pisa, Pisa [dissertation title: Il canone delle virtù: l’eredità antica e le trasformazioni medievali, direttore di tesi prof. Gianfranco Fioravanti, voto 110/110 summa cum laude].
COLLABORAZIONI SCIENTIFICO-EDITORIALI
2021-today: Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal I Castelli di Yale.
2021-today: Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Schola. Storia, Arte, Charitas a Venezia.
2019-today: Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Theandrites. Studies on Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism.
2019- 2022: Director of the journal Incontri.
2015-today: Columnist of Il Corriere Fiorentino.
2015-today: Columnist of Toscana oggi.
2024-today: Collaboratore de L’Osservatore Romano.
2024-today: Member of the Editorial board of the series , CUA University Press, Washington D.C.
2025-today: Member of the Advisory Board of the series TEMA (Textes et Études du Moyen Âge) della FIDEM (Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales).
AFFILIATIONS TO SCHOLARLY AND ACADEMIC SOCIETIES
2007-today: Member of the Société International pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (S.I.E.P.M.).
2010-today: Member of the Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale (S.I.S.P.M.)
2017-today: Member of the Medieval Academy of America (M.A.A.)
2017-today: Member of the Renaissance Society of America (R.S.A.)
2022 – today: Member of the Scientific Commitee of the Centro Studi Gioachimiti
2023 – today: Fellow of the Collegio Quaracchi
2024 – today: Member of the Council of the Istituto Storico Toscano della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea
2025-today: Member of the SISMEL (Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino).
PARTICIPATION TO RESEARCH PROJECTS
2023 – today: Substitute Principal Investigator e responsabile dell’unità locale (Università degli Studi di Bergamo) del PRIN 2022 Teaching and Learning Philosophy From the Italian Exception to the European Philosophical Heritage (TeLPh).
2022 – today: Critical edition of Book IV of the Summa fratris Alexandri, funded by the Fraternitas Foundation, Collegio dei Padri Editori Quaracchi.
2019-2023: Member of the research team of the ERC project ‘Authority & Innovation in Early Franciscan Thought (c. 1220-45)’ [https://www.earlyfranciscans.com].
2012-2023: Coordinato of the section 1150-1250 of the international research project “Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard” of the Socitété International pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale.
2006: Member of the project “Forme del commento filosofico dal tardo-antico al tardo Medioevo, secc. V-XVI: studio dottrinale ed edizione di testi”, Progetto di ricerca di interesse nazionale (PRIN) coordinator prof. Gianfranco Fioravanti.
ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND SUMMER SCHOOLS
02-04.10.2025: “International Conference. Desiring Knowledge: Philosophy in Bologna and the Regnum Italiae (1250-1450)”, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Bergamo. Conferenza conclusiva del progetto PRIN “TeLPh: Teaching and Learning Philosophy in the Regnum Italiae (1250-1450): from Exception to European Heritage”.
18.12.2023: “Da Dante a Cartesio. Uno sguardo agli studi in corso su Bruno Nardi”, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Bergamo.
13.10.2021: Filosofia e convivialità dall’antichità al Medioevo, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Bergamo.
21-22.11.2019: “Commentare il De interpretatione. Forme e contenuti del commento filosofico da Alessandro di Afrodisia al XIV secolo”, Università degli studi di Bergamo, Bergamo.
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24-28.08.2015: Organizzazione della Summer School del network internazionale Refo500 [http://www.refo500.com]su “Law, Rights and Religion facing the Reform”, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
9-10.06.2016: “Renaissance Religion II: Modes and Meanings in History”, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna.
28-29.11.2013: Convegno “Legge e natura. I dibattiti teologici e giuridici fra XV e XVII secolo”, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia – Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Modena-Bologna.
05-12.2011: Ciclo di lezioni “Cina e Cristianesimo dall’VIII secolo ad oggi”, Biblioteca comunale “A. Lazzerini”, Prato.
06.04.2011: “Attorno alla Bibbia di Marco Polo”, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Firenze.
16-18.07.2009: “Ad imaginem Dei. Foundations and objections within the discourse on human dignity”, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna – Rossena (RE).
MAJOR RESEARCH FIELDS
- Medieval Ethics, Metaphysics and Psychology (12th-13th centuries);
- The idea of nature and of natural law in Middle Ages and Early Modern period;
- The reception of Peter Lombard’s Sentences;
- History of the ecclesiastical and cultural institutions in Middle Ages;
- History of the doctrines on beatification and canonization;
- History of theology and religious thingking between 15th and 16th centuries, with a particular focus on the Camaldulensian tradition;
- History of the historiography on philosophy in the Middle Ages.
KNOWN LANGUAGES
Italian, English (speaking and writing), French (speaking and writing), German (reading), Classical and Medieval Latin, Ancient Greek.
SKILLS
Latin Paleography, Critical editing, Codicology.
Other research activities
TeLPh - Teaching and Learning Philosophy in the Regnum Italiae (1250-1450): from Exception to European Heritage
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Scientific Manager
2023
24 months
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Publications (100)
Courses (5)
ETHICS, ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY: HISTORICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES - 150081-M1
Secondo Semestre (17/02/2026 - 31/05/2026)
- 2025
Master's Degree
SSD M-FIL/08, 3 CFU, 18 hours
SSD M-FIL/08, 3 CFU, 18 hours
ETHICS, ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY: HISTORICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES - 150081-M1
Secondo Semestre (16/02/2026 - 29/05/2026)
- 2025
Master's Degree
SSD M-FIL/08, 3 CFU, 18 hours
SSD M-FIL/08, 3 CFU, 18 hours
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY - 106135
Primo Semestre (23/09/2025 - 20/12/2025)
- 2025
Bachelor's Degree
SSD M-FIL/08, 8 CFU, 48 hours
SSD M-FIL/08, 8 CFU, 48 hours
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY A - 10686-M1
Primo Semestre (23/09/2025 - 20/12/2025)
- 2025
Bachelor's Degree
SSD M-FIL/08, 6 CFU, 36 hours
SSD M-FIL/08, 6 CFU, 36 hours
SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES-MOD1 - 180012-EN1
Primo Semestre (23/09/2025 - 20/12/2025)
- 2025
Master's Degree
SSD M-FIL/08, 3 CFU, 18 hours
SSD M-FIL/08, 3 CFU, 18 hours
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