Agostino, starting from the confutation of the Aristotelian time’s theory and replying to the question if the time corresponds to the motion (motus) or to the duration (mora), tries to resolve the aporia that is not only ...

The research is limited to the work of a master of the arts, John Blund, who lived from 1175 to 1240. The work on which converges the focus of the research is the Tractatus de anima, discovered by Father Callus which gave ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ph. D. dissertation proposes a hypothesis for interpreting the philosophical works of Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, in order to determine patterns and conceptual issues relevant to account for the continuity or ...

This doctoral thesis deals with the De hebdomadibus by Severimus Boethius and it is composed by tree chapters: the first is a storeographical overview about the work and corcernes also with the matter about the authenticity ...

The aim of my PhD dissertation is to analyze the changes in the use of the words δαίμων and δαιμόνιον between the Hellenistic period and the Christian thought of the Second and the Third Centuries. In Hellenistic period, ...

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 ...

The work consists of four chapters, to which is added an appendix. In the first chapter, is proposed a reconstruction of biographical informations about Guerric, based on a review of sources and a clarification of some ...

Convened by emperor Justinian (527-565) in 532 was held in Constantinople a meeting between neocalcedonians and monophysite bishops to agree on the christological disputes that continued to rage in the big cities of the ...