In the broad setting of the medioeval Scholasticism, between the 13th and the beginning of the 14th centuries, few theologians put the focus on one question: the angelic sin. That is: how is it possible that, according to ...

The thesis arises from the critical proposal to consider Marsilio Ficino’s Epistolae as the philosopher’s favourite place for the discussion of the main themes of his speculation. Ficino’s preference for the short-treatise ...

In 1238, Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln, began to translate and comment on the Corpus Dionysiacum. Until now, no complete assessment of Pseudo-Dionysius’s contribution to Grosseteste’s thought has been attempted. ...

The thesis («Divine Knowledge and Soteriology in John Wyclif. An Essay on the unpublished tract De sciencia dei») contains the established text of the wycliffian inedited tract De sciencia dei and a doctinal essay. In the ...

Il nodo centrale che cercheremo di affrontare in questo saggio è la teoria della materia di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, quale si può ricostruire dai pronunciamenti sparsi nella sua opera. Il riferimento obbligato in questo ...

This dissertation about William of Conches and the Dragmaticon Philosophiae is divided into two sections. The aim of the first section is to reconstruct the life and the literary works of one of the most important teachers ...

The aim of this Doctoral work is double: (a) to offer the complete edition of three important distinctiones – the second, the third and the eighth – coming from the Sentence Commentary of the Franciscan John of Ripa, who ...

This research is aimed at clarifying the relationship between philosophy and theology in the works of Alan of Lille, who is termed by his contemporaries Doctor Universalis also because of his figure of unfailing polygraph ...

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how within the Quaestiones ad Thalassium the monk Massimo the Confessor’s reasoning is structured in two different perspectives: practical philosophy and mystical ascension. The ...

This doctoral dissertation focuses on the "Parmenides" comment of Marsilio Ficino, which dates to the 90s of the fifteenth century. The research starts with a reconstruction of the historical, political and cultural context ...