My PhD thesis is concerned with logic developed by Lorenzo Valla in the second and third book of the Dialectica, his main philosophical work. Valla’s logic, by himself named «logica laurentiana», aim to reform aristotelian ...

The present study has the purpose of establishing the role that Plato's Parmenides has had in the middleplatonic philosophy. This research is therefore intended to answer to a key question: was the Parmenides integrated ...

The present work starts from the desire to deepen the figure and thought of two leading exponents of the ‘magical’ or ‘occult’ Renaissance in a Germanic milieu: Johannes Trithemius and Cornelius Agrippa. Both located in a ...

«Relatio transcendens» is a well-known topic among John Duns Scotus’ scholars. Indeed, Scotus was the very first thinker who made a quite extensive use of this notion throughout his works. However, research on this notion ...

The aim of my dissertation is to investigate how universal concepts are formed according to the later medieval Franciscan theologian Peter Auriol (d. 1322). Specifically, in the dissertation I inquiry into the relation ...

The work first examines the status of De Beryllo as a less-studied work from Cusanus’ corpus, with relatively little secondary literature, which is furthermore divided between different traditions and languages (particularly ...

The work moves from the intention to verify the presence of an hypostasiology in the ontological conception of Gregory Palamas, ascertained, from one side, that the critical literature on the hesychast theologian has ...

The doctoral thesis focuses on thè investigation of thè development and religious, patrimonial, financial and dialectical dynamics implemented by thè Cistercian abbeys in regnum Siciliae, with particular reference to thè ...

This dissertation discusses Damascius’ De Primis Principiis, the main writing of the last scholarch of the Athenian Platonic school in the sixth century AD. The aim of the work is to propose a interpretation of the aporetic ...

My dissertation is concerned with the three clearly ordered versions («Summi boni», Christiana and «Scholarium») of the same theological work, that is the Theologia of Peter Abelard. If, on the one hand, the entire work ...