Curriculum Vitae  

Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Delegate of the Director for International Strategies (November 2010-December 2012)
Associate Professor of Islamic Philosophy (April 2010-)
Fellow of the Program “‘Incentivazione alla mobilità di studiosi stranieri e italiani residenti all’estero’ (DM 1.2.2005, n.18)” (= “Rientro dei Cervelli”) (September 2006-April 2010).

Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (September 2005-August 2006)



Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Ph.D., Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, May 2005. Dissertation: “The Reception of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ: Textual and Doctrinal Analysis”; Dimitri Gutas, adviser.
William J. Horwitz Prize for continuous excellence and distinction in a chosen discipline in the field of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
M.Phil., 2001.
Orals passed with distinction, May 2000.

University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Doctorate (Ph.D. equivalent), Philosophy, 1998. Dissertation: “Avicenna ed Averroè come fonti del Commento di Alberto Magno alla Metafisica di Aristotele: la dottrina dei trascendentali nei commentatori arabi di Aristotele e nel tredicesimo secolo latino” (Avicenna and Averroes as Sources of Albertus Magnus’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics: The Doctrine of Transcendentals in the Arab Commentators of Aristotle and in the Latin 13th c.); Massimo Mugnai, adviser.

University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Laurea (M.A. equivalent), Philosophy, 1991. Dissertation: “Il Commento di Paolo Veneto ai libri IV e VI della Metafisica di Aristotele e la tradizione esegetica medievale” (Paul of Venice’s Commentary on Books IV and VI of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and the Medieval Exegetical Tradition); Francesco Del Punta, adviser.




ERC Advanced Grant 2013 (ERC-2013-ADG), Grant Agreement 339621, http://www.avicennaproject.eu/
Project "Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations and Intellectual Endeavours: Towards a Critical Edition of the Metaphysics (Ilahiyyat of Kitab al-Shifa’) of Avicenna (Ibn Sina)" (5 years, Euros 1.140.800); Host Institution: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; capacity: Principal Investigator

MIUR, Bando PRIN 2012
Responsabile scientifico dell’Unità locale della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (“Greco-Arabo-Latino: Aristotelismo e Platonismo nella tradizione esegetica tardo-antica e medievale”), nell’ambito del progetto nazionale "L'universalità e i suoi limiti: meccanismi di inclusione ed esclusione nella storia della filosofia e nei dibattiti filosofici contemporanei", presentato in forma sintetica per la prima valutazione presso l'Università del Salento (Prof. Loris Sturlese), in progress

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Scientific responsible for SNS of the Project ERC “Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions” (DASI) Grantagreement 269774 (Prof. Alessandra Avanzini), Host Institution: University of Pisa, Additional Institution: SNS (March 2011-)
Internal Research Project: “The Manuscripts of Avicenna’s Metaphysics: Reproduction, Inventory, On-line Publication”, 2011-2012 (Euros 46.000)
Internal Research Project: “Studio della tradizione manoscritta araba della Metafisica di Avicenna (Scienza delle cose divine del Libro della Guarigione)”, 2008
Program “‘Incentivazione alla mobilità di studiosi stranieri e italiani residenti all’estero’ (DM 1.2.2005, n.18)” (= “Rientro dei Cervelli”), September 2006-April 2010.

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Special Research Fellowship, September 2005-August 2006 (University of Cologne, Thomas-Institut; research project: “The Arabic Sources of Albertus Magnus’ Commentary on the Metaphysics: Avicenna and Averroes”)
Residence Allowance, January 2008 (University of Cologne, Thomas-Institut; research project: Arabic-Latin apparatus and Lexica in Averroes, Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories)

Yale University
Ph.D. fellowship, academic years 1998-2003
J. F. Enders research grant, Summer 2001
J. F. Enders research grant, Summer 2002

University of Florence
Doctorate fellowship, academic years 1993-1997




Societies
Società Italiana per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (S.I.S.M.E.L.), Responsabile della Sezione Filosofica
Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale (S.I.S.P.M.)
Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (S.I.E.P.M.)
Société Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences et de la Philosophie Arabes et Islamiques (S.I.H.S.P.A.I.)

Commissions
Kommission zur Averroes-Latinus-Edition, Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Köln (Cologne)

Schools and Centers
European Graduate School for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (E.G.S.A.M.P.), Cologne
Centro inter-universitario di ricerca “Incontri di Culture: Trasmissione di testi dal greco al siriaco all’arabo al latino” (Gr.A.L.), Pisa



Journals
Co-director of: 
Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale. An International Journal on the Philosophical Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages of the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (S.I.S.M.E.L.)

Advisory Board of:
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales

Guest editor of:
Oriens, 42.2, 2012

Series
Editorial Board of “Studies on the Faculty of Arts: History and Inluence (SFAHI)”, Brepols, Turnhout



Monographs

1) The Reception of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ: A Milestone of Western Metaphysical Thought, Brill, Leiden-Boston (“Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science”, vol. 63), 2006, xvii + 675 pp.
    See: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=18&pid=24713
Presented at the meeting “JOURNEE INCIPIT 2007”, Centre Pierre Abélard, Université Paris-IV Sorbonne (09/06/2007)
Reviews by:
Th.-A. Druart, Journal of Islamic Studies, 19, 2008, pp. 104-106.
J. McGinnis, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 40, 2008, pp. 354-356.
M. Benedetto, “Avicenna e la risistemazione della Metafisica di Aristotele”, Quaestio, 7, 2007, pp. 541-546.
T. Mazzola Verza, Cadernos de História e Filosofia da Ciência, University of Campinas (Brasil): www.cle.unicamp.br/cadernos/pdf/(7)Resenha(Tadeu%20Verza).pdf
C. D’Ancona, “Avicenna and the Metaphysics: Reflections about a New Approach”,  International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 15.3, 2008, pp. 457-465.
B. Gencer, Bilimname, 16, 2009, pp. 242-243.

2) The Arabic Sources of Albertus Magnus’ Commentary on the Metaphysics: Avicenna and Averroes, in progress.

3) Storia della Filosofia Araba, Carocci Editore, Firenze, forthcoming.


Translations

Libro della Guarigione, Le Cose Divine di Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā), a cura di A. Bertolacci, 856 pp. (Italian annotated translation of the Ilāhiyyāt of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ, with introduction, corrections of the Arabic text, indexes):
Hard-cover edition: Collezione “Classici della Filosofia”, UTET (Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese), Turin 2007.
  See: http://cultura.utet.it/cultura/catalogo/details.jsp?id=1685&from=search
Paper-back edition, Collezione “Classici del Pensiero” 53, UTET Libreria, Turin 2008.
  See: http://www.utetlibreria.it/html/scheda.phtml?ID=2787&chk=1&casa=1
Reviews by:
M. Benedetto, “Avicenna e la risistemazione della Metafisica di Aristotele”, Quaestio, 7, 2007, pp. 541-546.
A. Corbini, Rivista di Filosofia, 99.1, 2008, pp. 128-130.


Critical Editions

1) “Thābit Ibn Qurra’s Concise Exposition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics: Text, Translation and Commentary” (D. C. Reisman co-author), in Thābit Ibn Qurra. Sciences and Philosophy in 9th Century Baghdad, ed. R. Rashed, M. Rashed, De Gruyter (“Scientia Graeco-Arabica” 4), Berlin-New York 2009, pp. 715-776.

2) Averroes Latinus, Commentum Medium Super Librum Praedicamentorum Aristotelis. Translatio Wilhelmo De Luna Adscripta, edidit R. Hissette, apparatu arabo-latino supplementoque adnotationum instruxit A. Bertolacci, Lexica confecerunt R. Hissette et A. Bertolacci, praesentatione auxit † L. J. Bataillon (= Averrois Opera. Series B. Averroes latinus, XI), Peeters, Leuven 2010.
Presented at the Meeting “Journée Thomas d'Aquin” (SOCIÉTÉ THOMISTE. CENTRE D'ÉTUDES DU SAULCHOIR) 3/12/2011 (Iacopo Costa)


Articles
 
1) “«Subtilius speculando». Le citazioni della Philosophia Prima di Avicenna nel Commento alla Metafisica di Alberto Magno”, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale, 9, 1998, pp. 261-339.

2) “Albert the Great, Metaph. IV, 1, 5: From the Refutatio to the Excusatio of Avicenna’s Theory of Unity”, in Was ist Philosophie im Mittelalter? Qu’est-ce que la philosophie au moyen âge? What is Philosophy in the Middle Ages? Akten des X. Internationalen Kongresses für Mittelalterliche Philosophie der Société Internationale pour l'Etude de la Philosophie Médiévale, 25. bis 30. August 1997 in Erfurt, ed. J. A. Aertsen, A. Speer, Miscellanea Mediaevalia 26, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1998, pp. 881-887.

3) “Metafisica A, 5, 986 a 22-26 nell’Ilāhiyyāt del Kitāb al-Šifāʾ di Ibn Sīnā”, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale, 10, 1999, pp. 205-231.

4) “Le citazioni implicite testuali della Philosophia prima di Avicenna nel Commento alla Metafisica di Alberto Magno: analisi tipologica”, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale, 12, 2001, pp. 179-274.

5) “From al-Kindī to al-Fārābī: Avicenna’s Progressive Knowledge of Aristotle’s Metaphysics according to his Autobiography”, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 11.2, 2001, pp. 257-295. 
Arabic translation: “Min al-Kindī ilā al-Fārābī: Maʿrifat Ibn Sīnā al-tadrīǧiyya li-Kitāb Mā Baʿd al-Ṭabīʾa li-Arisṭū ḥasba sīratihi al-ḏātiyya”, in Dirāsāt fī tārīḫ ʿilm al-kalām wa-al-falsafa, Išrāf R. Rashed, Beirut, 2013, pp. 367-410.

6) “La divisione della filosofia nel primo capitolo del Commento di Alberto Magno alla Fisica: le fonti avicenniane”, in La Divisione della Filosofia e le sue Ragioni. Lettura di testi medievali (VI-XIII secolo) (Atti del Settimo Convegno della Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale [S.I.S.P.M.], Assisi, 14-15 novembre 1997), ed. G. D’Onofrio, Avagliano Editore, Cava de’ Tirreni (Salerno) 2001, pp. 137-155.

7) “The Reception of Avicenna’s ‘Philosophia Prima’ in Albert the Great’s Commentary on the ‘Metaphysics’: The Case of the Doctrine of Unity”, in Albertus Magnus 1200-2000. Zum Gedenken nach 800 Jahren: neue Zugänge, Aspekte und Perspektiven, ed. W. Senner et al., Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2001, pp. 67-78.
 
8) “The Structure of Metaphysical Science in the Ilāhiyyāt (Divine Science) of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ (Book of the Cure)”, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale, 13, 2002, pp. 1-69.

9) “The Doctrine of Material and Formal Causality in the Ilāhiyyāt of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ”, Quaestio, 2, 2002, pp. 125-154.

10) “Albert The Great and The Preface of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ”, in Avicenna and His Heritage. Acts of the International Colloquium, Leuven-Louvain-la-Neuve September 8-September 11, 1999, ed. J. Janssens, D. De Smet, Leuven University Press, Leuven 2002, pp. 131-152.

11)  “Some Texts of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the Ilāhīyāt of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ”, in Before and After Avicenna. Proceedings of the First Conference of the Avicenna Study Group, ed. D. C. Reisman, A. H. al-Rahim, Brill, Leiden 2003, pp. 25-45.

12) “La ricezione del libro Γ della Metafisica nell’Ilāhiyyāt del Kitāb al-Šifāʾ di Avicenna”, in Aristotele e i suoi esegeti neoplatonici. Logica e ontologia nelle interpretazioni greche e arabe. Atti del convegno internazionale, Roma, 19-20 ottobre 2001, ed. V. Celluprica, C. D’Ancona, R. Chiaradonna, Bibliopolis, Napoli, 2004, pp. 173-210.

13) “The Reception of Book Β (Beta) of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the Ilāhiyyāt of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ”, in Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam. Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Avicenna Study Group, ed. J. McGinnis with the assistance of D. C. Reisman, Brill, Leiden 2004, pp. 157-174.

14) “Il pensiero filosofico di Avicenna”, in Storia della Filosofia nell’Islam Medievale, ed. C. D’Ancona Costa, Einaudi, Torino 2005, vol. II, pp. 522-626.

15) “Biblioteche e centri di cultura nell’Oriente musulmano tra il X e l’XI secolo”, in Storia della Filosofia nell’Islam Medievale, ed. C. D’Ancona Costa, Einaudi, Torino 2005, vol. II, pp. 495-521.

16) “Ammonius and al-Fārābī: The Sources of Avicenna’s Concept of Metaphysics”, in Metaphysica, sapientia, scientia divina. Soggetto e statuto della filosofia prima nel Medioevo. Atti del XIV Convegno della Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale (S.I.S.P.M.), Bari, 9-12 giugno 2004, ed. P. Porro, M. Benedetto, Quaestio, 5, 2005, pp. 287-305.

17) “On the Arabic Translations of Aristotle’s Metaphysics”, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 15, 2005, pp. 241-275.

18) “Avicenna and Averroes on the Proof of God’s Existence and the Subject-Matter of Metaphysics”, Medioevo, 32, 2007, pp. 61-97.
   
19) “On the Manuscripts of the Ilāhiyyāt of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ”, in Islamic Thought in the Middle Ages. Studies in Text, Transmission and Translation, in Honour of Hans Daiber, ed. A. Akasoy, W. Raven, Brill, Leiden 2008, pp. 59-75.

20) “«Necessary» as Primary Concept in Avicenna’s Metaphysics”, in Conoscenza e contingenza nella tradizione aristotelica medievale, ed. G. Fioravanti, S. Perfetti, ETS, Pisa, 2008, pp. 31-50.

    Discussed at the “Philosophical Review Club”, De Wulf-Mansion Center, KU Leuven, on November 14 2013 (Daniel De Haan)

21) “The Reception of Averroes’ Long Commentary on the Metaphysics in Latin Medieval Philosophy until Albertus Magnus”, in Via Alberti. Texte – Quellen – Interpretationen, ed. L. Honnefelder, H. Möhle, S. Bullido del Barrio (Subsidia Albertina, Vol. 2), Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2009, pp. 457-480.

22) “Different attitudes to Aristotle’s authority in the Arabic Medieval commentaries on the Metaphysics”, Antiquorum Philosophia, 3, 2009 (“L’autorità degli antichi e il commentario filosofico”), pp. 145-163.

23) “The ‘Ontologization’ of Logic. Metaphysical Themes in Avicenna’s Reworking of the Organon”, in Methods and Methodologies. Aristotelian Logic East and West 500-1500, ed. M. Cameron, J. Marenbon, Brill Leiden-Boston 2011, pp. 27-51.

24) “A New Phase of the Reception of Aristotle in the Latin West: Albertus Magnus and His Use of Arabic Sources in the Commentaries on Aristotle”, in Albertus Magnus und der Ursprung der Universitätsidee. Die Begegnung der Wissenschaftskulturen im 13. Jahrhundert und die Entdeckung des Konzepts der Bildung durch Wissenschaft, ed. L. Honnefelder, Berlin University Press, Berlin 2011, pp. 259-276, 491-500.

25) “A Community of Translators: The Latin Medieval Versions of Avicenna’s Book of the Cure”, in Communities of Learning: Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity in Europe 1100-1500, ed. C. J. Mews, J. N. Crossley, Brepols, Turnhout 2011, pp. 37-54.
   
26) “On the Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics before Albertus Magnus: An Attempt at Periodization”, in The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics, ed. D. N. Hasse, A. Bertolacci, De Gruyter (“Scientia Graeco-Arabica” 7), Berlin 2012, pp. 197-223.

27) “The Distinction of Essence and Existence in Avicenna’s Metaphysics: The Text and Its Context”, in Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion: Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas, ed. F. Opwis, D. C. Reisman, Brill, Leiden 2012, pp. 257-288.
   
28) “Introduction”, Oriens, 40.2, 2012 (“The Manuscript Tradition of Avicenna’s Kitab al-Shifa’: The Current State of Research and Future Prospects”, Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 22-24 September 2010, ed. A. Bertolacci), pp. 195-198.

29) “How Many Recensions of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ?”, Oriens, 40.2, 2012, pp. 275-303.
 
30) “A Hidden Hapax Legomenon in Avicenna’s Metaphysics: Considerations on the Use of Anniyya and Ayyiyya in the Ilāhiyyāt of the Kitāb al-Šifā’”, in The Letter before the Spirit. The Importance of Text Editions for the Study of the Reception of Aristotle, ed. A. M. I. van Oppenraay, with the collaboration of R. Fontaine, Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2012 (Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus 22), pp. 289-309.

31) “Albert’s Use of Avicenna and Islamic Philosophy”, in A Companion to Albert the Great. Theology, Philosophy, and the Sciences, ed. I. M. Resnick, Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2013, pp. 601-611.

32) “Averroes against Avicenna on Human Spontaneous Generation: The Starting-Point of a Lasting Debate”, in Renaissance Averroism and its Aftermath. Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, ed. A. Akasoy, G. Giglioni, Springer, Dordrecht 2013, pp. 37-54.

33) “Albertus Magnus and “Avenzoreth” (Ibn Zurʿa, d. 1008): Legend or Reality?”, in The Medieval Legends of Philosophers and Scholars. Proceedings of the International Colloquium Les légendes des savants et philosophes (Moyen Âge et Renaissance), Tours, 16-18 septembre 2010, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la
 Renaissance, ed. A. Paravicini Bagliani, J. P. Boudet, Micrologus, 21, 2013, pp. 369-396.

34) “From Athens to Buḫārā, to Cordoba, to Cologne: On the Transmission of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the Arab and Latin Worlds during the Middle Ages”, in Circolazione dei saperi nel Mediterraneo. Filosofia e Scienze (secoli IX-XVII). Circulation des savoirs autour de la Méditerranée. Philosophie et sciences (IXe-XVIe siècles). Atti del VII Colloquio Internazionale della Société Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences et de la Philosophie Arabes et Islamiques. Firenze, 16-18 febbraio 2006, ed. G. Federici Vescovini, A. Hasnaoui, Edizioni Cadmo, Firenze, 2013, pp. 217-233.
 
35) “The Reception of Avicenna in Latin Medieval Culture”, in Interpreting Avicenna. Critical Essays, ed. P. Adamson, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, pp. 242-269.

36) “Dall'arabo al greco. Considerazioni su una peculiarità del codice Vat. gr. 1087”, in Antiche stelle a Bisanzio. Cod. Vat. gr. 1087, ed. F. Guidetti, A. Santoni, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale 2013, pp. 57-62, 181.

37) “Avicenna’s and Averroes’ Interpretations and Their Influence in Albert the Great”, in A Companion to the Latin Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, ed. F. Amerini, G. Galluzzo, Brill, Leiden 2014, pp. 95-135.

38) “Arabi, Ebrei e Bizantini”, in Storia della Filosofia Occidentale, ed. G. Cambiano, L. Fonnesu, M. Mori, vol. II: Medioevo e Rinascimento, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014, pp. 111-145 (Capitolo 3) + 401-404 (bibliografia).

39) “Avicenna. Metaphysik”, in Philosophie in der islamischen Welt, ed. U. Rudolph (= Grundriß der Geschichte der Philosophie. Begründet v. F. Überweg, völlig neubearbeitete Ausgabe), Schwabe & Co, Basel, forthcoming.

40) “«The Andalusian Revolt Against Avicenna’s Metaphysics»: Averroes’ Criticisms of Avicenna in the commentaries on Aristotle”, in Averroes: From Cordoba to Cologne (Proceedings of the Conference From Cordoba to Cologne: Transformation and Translation, Transmission and Edition of Averroes's Works, Cologne, October, 25-28, 2011), ed. D. Wirmer, De Gruyer, Berlin-New York, forthcoming.

41) “Establishing the Science of Metaphysics”, in The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy, ed. R. C. Taylor, L. X. López‐Farjeat, Routledge, London-New York, forthcoming.

42) “Being as subject matter of metaphysics/first philosophy”, in On What There Was. Conceptions of Being 500-1650, East and West. Volume 1: Being, ed. N. Germann, P. Porro, Brepols, Turnhout, forthcoming.

43) “Ibn Sīnā (d. 1037): Metaphysics of the Šifāʾ”, in The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy, ed. Khaled El-Rouayheb, Sabine Schmidtke, Oxford Univeristy Press, forthcoming.


Entries in Encyclopaedias

1) “Arabic and Islamic Metaphysics”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (on-line), first published Thu Jul 5, 2012 (plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-metaphysics/).

2) “Essence and existence”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam – Three, ed. Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas and Everett Rowson (section editor: Ayman Shihadeh), Brill, Leiden, forthcoming.


Editions of Volumes

1) Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale, 21, 2010 (Special Issue: Arabic Philosophy)

2) The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics, ed. D. N. Hasse, A. Bertolacci, De Gruyter (“Scientia Graeco-Arabica” 7), Berlin, 2012.
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/176665?rskey=3daVSk&result=2&q=

3) Guest editor of Oriens, 40.2-3, 2012: “The Manuscript Tradition of Avicenna’s Kitab al-Shifa’: The Current State of Research and Future Prospects”.


Reviews

1) Sarah Stroumsa, Freethinkers of Medieval Islam. Ibn al-Rāwandī, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, and Their Impact on Islamic Thought, Brill, Leiden 1999, pp. XI-262 (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, XXXV), in Studi Medievali, 42.1, 2001, pp. 212-221.

2) Eudemus of Rhodes (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, Vol. XI), ed. I. Bodnár, W. W. Fortenbaugh, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick and London 2002, in The Classical Bulletin, 79.2, 2003, pp. 305-310.

3) Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Avicenna’s De anima in the Latin West. The Formation of a Peripatetic Philosophy of the Soul, 1160-1300, London – Turin, The Warburg Institute – Nino Aragno Editore, 2000, pp. X-350 (Warburg Institute Studies and Texts, 1), in Studi Medievali, 45.1, 2004, pp. 271-275.

4) Averroès, Commentaire Moyen sur le De Interpretatione, Introduction, traduction et notes par Ali Benmakhlouf et Stéphane Diebler, Paris, J. Vrin 2000, pp. 206 (Sic et Non), in Studi Medievali, 45.2, 2004, pp. 1080-1081.

5) Proclus et la théologie platonicienne, Actes du Colloque International de Louvain (13-16 mai 1998), En l’honneur de H. D. Saffrey et L. G. Westerink ṭ, édités par A. Ph. Segonds et C. Steel, avec l’assistance de C. Luna et A. F. Mettraux, Leuven University Press-Les Belles Lettres, Leuven-Paris 2000, in Studi Medievali, 45.2, 2004, pp. 1154-1155.

6) Roger Arnaldez, Averroes. A Rationalist in Islam, Translated by David Straight, Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 2000, pp. VIII-158, in Studi Medievali, 46.1, 2005, pp. 403-405.

7) G. Strohmaier, Avicenna, Verlag C.H. Beck, Munich 1999, in ISIS, 96, 2005, p. 649.

8) J. Jolivet, La teologia degli Arabi, ISTEM-Jaca Book, Milano 2001, in Studi Medievali, 48.1, 2007, pp. 162-164.

9) R. Wisnovsky, Avicenna’s Metaphysics in Context, Cornell University Press, Ithaca (New York) 2003, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 67.2, 2008, pp. 155-160.

10) R. Wisnovsky, Avicenna’s Metaphysics in Context, Cornell University Press, 2003, in Historia Philosophica, 3, 2005, pp. 135-141 (Italian expanded version of the preceding).

11) G. Endress, Der arabische Aristoteles und sein Leser: Physik und Theologie im Weltbild Alberts des Groṣen, Aschendorff, Münster 2004, in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 13.4, 2007, pp. 640-643.

12) M. Abdel Haleem, Understanding the Qur’an. Themes and Style, I. B. Tauris, London-New York 1999 (paperback edition 2001), in Studi Medievali, 49.1, 2008, pp. 469-470.

13) The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, ed. P. Adamson, R. Taylor, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005, in International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 16.2, 2009, pp. 271-275.

14) Avicenna Latinus, Liber primus naturalium. Tractatus secundus de motu et de consimilibus. Édition critique par S. Van Riet (ṭ), J. Janssens, A. Allard, Introduction par G. Verbeke, Académie Royale de Belgique, 2006, in Studi Medievali, forthcoming.

15) Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse, ed. J. C. Frakes, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2011, in Studi Medievali, 55, 2014, pp. 341-344.




1) “The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics”,
Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio (Co), Italy, 2-6 July 2008 (co-organizer: Prof. Dag N. Hasse, University of Würzburg)

2) “The Manuscript Tradition of Avicenna’s Kitab al-Shifa’: The Current State of Research and Future Prospects”,
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 22-24 September 2010

3) “The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Physics and Cosmology”,
Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio (Co), Italy, 26-30 June 2013 (co-organizer: Prof. Dag N. Hasse, University of Würzburg)

4) “Giornata di Studi in memoria di Francesco Del Punta”,
Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, Firenze,17 November 2014 (co-organizer: A. Paravicini Bagliani)



1) “Avicenna, Averroè ed Alberto Magno come interpreti della dottrina aristotelica dei trascendentali”
VI Convegno Nazionale dei Dottorati di Ricerca in Filosofia, Coordinamento Nazionale dei Dottorati in Filosofia and Istituto Banfi of Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, September 1995.

2) “Albert the Great, Metaph. IV, 1, 5: From the Refutatio to the Excusatio of Avicenna’s Theory of Unity”
X International Congress of Medieval Philosophy Qu’est-ce que la philosophie au Moyen Age?, Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, Erfurt, Germany, 25-30 August 1997.

3) “La divisione della filosofia nel primo capitolo del Commento di Alberto Magno alla Fisica: le fonti avicenniane”
VII Convegno di Studio La divisione della filosofia e le sue ragioni, Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale, Assisi, Italy, November 1997.

4) “Albert The Great and The Preface of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ”
Avicenna and his Heritage, Leuven-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 8-11 September 1999

5) “Some Remarks on the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Ilāhiyyāt of the Šifāʾ”
The First Graduate Student Conference on Ibn Sina, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A., 17-18 March 2001.

6) “La ricezione del libro Γ della Metafisica nell’Ilāhiyyāt del Kitāb al-Shifāʾ di Avicenna”
Aristotele e i suoi esegeti neoplatonici. Logica e ontologia nelle interpretazioni greche e arabe (European Science Foundation, Network Late Antiquity and Arabic Thought; C.N.R., Centro di Studio del Pensiero Antico), Rome, Italy, 19-20 October 2001.

7) “The Reception of Book B (Beta) of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the Ilāhiyyāt of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ”
Panel on Avicenna in World Congress of Middle East Studies, University of Mainz, Germany, 8-13 September 2002.

8) “Ammonio ed al-Fārābī: le fonti della concezione avicenniana della metafisica”,
Metaphysica – sapientia – scientia divina: soggetto e statuto della filosofia prima nel Medioevo. Convegno della Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale, Bari, Italy, 9-12 June 2004.

9) “From Athens to Iṣfahān, to Cordoba, to Cologne: On the Vicissitudes of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the Arab and Latin Worlds during the Middle Ages”
Colloque International SIHSPAI Sciences et philosophie: Circulation des savoirs autour de la Méditerranée (IXe-XVIe siècles), Florence, Italy, 16-18 February 2006.

10) “Endless Beginning. The Current State of Reserarch on Arabic Philosophy”,
Das Sein der Dauer. 35. Kölner Mediaevistentagung, Thomas-Institut Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany, 12-15 September 2006.

11) “The «Andalusian Revolt Against Avicennian Metaphysics»: Averroes’ Criticism of Avicenna in the Long Commentary on the Metaphysics”,
Averroès, l’averroïsme, l’antiaverroïsme - XIVe symposium annuel de la SIEPM, Genève, Switzerland, 4-6 October 2006 (A. De Libera).

12) “The Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Philosophia prima until Albertus Magnus”,(A.
Sources arabes de Thomas d'Aquin, Centre d’histoire des sciences et de philosophies arabes et médiévales (CNRS-UMR 7062), Université Paris 7, ÉPHÉ, Paris, France, 18 November 2006.

13) “The «Ontologization» of Logic: Metaphysical Themes in Avicenna’s Reworking of the Organon”,
Aristotelian Logic East and West 500-1500: Methods and Methodologies, Cambridge University, U.K., 3-4 February 2007 (Margaret Cameron and John Marenbon).

14) “The Reception of Avicenna’s Science of Divine Things and Averroes’ Long Commentary on the Metaphysics in Latin Medieval Philosophy until Albertus Magnus”,
XII International Congress of Medieval Philosophy Universality of Reason, Plurality of Philosophies in the Middle Ages, SIEPM, Palermo, Italy, 16-22 September 2007.

15) “Averroes’ Long Commentary on the Metaphysics and Albertus Magnus”,
In the Age of Averroes. Arabic Thought at the End of the Classical Period, Warburg Institute, London, 14-16 February 2008 (P. Adamson)

16) “Logic, metaphysics and Arabic philosophy: on Albertus Magnus’ doctrine of transcendentals”,
Logique et métaphysique chez Albert le Grand, Paris, France, 7-8 March 2008 (Julie Brumberg-Chaumont)

17) “Averroes’ criticisms of Avicenna’s philosophy in Latin philosophy and historiography”,
Renaissance Averroism and its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, Warburg Institute, London, U.K. 20-21 June 2008 (A. Akasoy, G. Giglioni)

18) “The Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics until Albertus Magnus: Toledo, Paris, Oxford”
The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics,Villa Vigoni, Menaggio / Lago di Como, Italy, 2-6 July 2008 (D. N. Hasse, A. Bertolacci).

19) “Simplicius in Avicenna’s reworking of Aristotle’s Categories”,
Les Catégories: la tradition arabe, Australian Research Council, CNRS (Paris), Paris 3-4 April 2009 (A. Hasnaoui, P. Thom).

20) “The Metaphysics of Avicenna: Considerations on the Feasibility of a Critical Edition”
The Letter Before the Spirit. The Importance of Text Editions for the Study of the Reception of Aristotle, Huygens Instituut, Den Haag (The Hague), The Netherlands, 2-5 June 2009 (Aafke van Oppenraay).

21) “A New Phase of the Reception of Aristotle in the Latin West: Albertus Magnus and His Use of Arabic Sources in the Aristotelian Commentaries”,
Bildung durch Wissenschaft. Die Geburt der Universitätsidee aus der Begegnung griechisch-hebräisch-arabischer Wissenschaft mit christlicher Gelehrsamkeit im lateinischen Westen des 13. Jahrhunderts, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 8-10 April 2010 (L. Honnefelder)

22) “Albertus Magnus and “Avenzoreth” (Ibn Zurʿa, d. 1008): Legend or Reality?”
Les légendes des savants et philosophes (Moyen Âge Renaissance), Tours, 16-18 septembre 2010, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la
 Renaissance (A. Paravicini Bagliani, J.P. Boudet).

23) “The Current Edition of Avicenna’s Kitab al-Shifa’: State-of-the-Art”, “The Metaphysics of the Shifa’: Preliminary Works towards a Future Critical Edition”, “Avicenn@. A Website on the Philosophy of Avicenna (Ibn Sina), with Digital Library of Manuscripts, Bibliography of Printed Publications, and Mailing-List”
The Manuscript Tradition of Avicenna’s Kitab al-Shifa’: The Current State of Research and Future Prospects, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 22-24 September 2010 (A. Bertolacci)

24) “Being. Case Studies and Translations”
On What There Was. Being, Relation, Facts and States of Affairs, Università degli Studi di Bari, 13-14 June 2011 (P. Porro, L. Cesalli, N. Germann)

25) “The Reception of Avicenna’s Doctrine of Essence in the First Half of the 13th Century”
The Problem of Universals in the XIIIth Century, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 5-7 September 2011 (G. Galluzzo)

26) “Albert the Great in Front of Averroes’ Criticisms of Avicenna”
Translation and Transformation in Philosophy. Albert Between Aquinas and the Arabs, KU Leuven, 4-6 June 2012 (A. Robiglio, R. Taylor).

27) “On the Latin Translation of Avicenna’s Metaphysics and its Arabic Background”
Journée d’étude dans le cadre du séminaire “Recherches en cours sur la falsafa”, CNRS, Centre Jean Pepin (UPR 76), Villejuif, 21 November 2012 (M. Aouad, M. Sebti)

28) “The Arabic Translation of Metaphysics Γ”
The Arabic Version of the Metaphysics: A Two-Day Seminar, University of Munich, 20-21 May 2013 (org. P. Adamson, O. Primavesi)

29) “Terminological, Conceptual, and Argumentative Analysis as a Tool of Metaphysics in Avicenna’s Book of the Cure”
Analysis and Synthesis. Philosophical Method and Scientific Methodology in Ancient and Medieval Thought, 18-21 December 2013, VU University Amsterdam (org. W. Goris, T. Kobusch, M. Martijn)

30) “Pessimismo psicologico, ottimismo metafisico: possibilità e limiti della conoscenza metafisica in Avicenna”
Il problema della conoscibilità di Dio e la riflessione gnoseologica medievale, Università degli Studi Firenze, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, 10 dicembre 2014



1) “La Metafisica di Avicenna: struttura e contenuto”
Department of Philosophy, University of Pisa, Italy, 13 December 1999.

2) “The Reception of Avicenna’s Philosophia Prima in Albert the Great’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics: The Case of the Doctrine of Unity”
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Roundtable, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A., 18 January 2001.

3) “Avicenna, Alberto Magno e il dialogo tra Islam e Cristianesimo”
Pontificia Università Urbaniana, Rome, Italy, 9 January 2003.

4) “Avicenna as the Interpreter of Aristotle’s Metaphysics: The Different Types of Quotations”
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Roundtable, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A., 29 April 2003.

5) “The Doctrine of Intellection in Avicenna”
Köln-Bonner Philosophisches Kolloquium, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany, 19 April 2006.

6) “The Doctrine of Intellection in Averroes”,
Köln-Bonner Philosophisches Kolloquium, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany, 10 May 2006.

7) “Avicenna, Averroes and Albertus Magnus on the Proof of God’s Existence and the Subject-Matter of Metaphysics”,
Foschungskolloquium, Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany, 13 June 2006.

8) “The first treatise of Avicenna’s Ilāhiyyāt”,
Séminaire “La Métaphysique d’Avicenne (2006-2007)”, Centre d’histoire des sciences et de philosophies arabes et médiévales (CNRS-UMR 7062), Ecole Normale Supérieure-Ulm, Paris, France, 17 November 2006.

9) “The Distinction of Essence and Existence in Avicenna’s Metaphysics: A New Reading”,
Forschungskolloquium, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, 26 May 2007.

10) “The Animation of Heavens: Albertus Magnus’ Use of Arabic Cosmology (Avicenna and Averroes) in his Commentary on the Metaphysics”,
Seminaire de Philosophie Ancienne 2007-2008 Puissance, Mouvement, Acte: L’Acte et le divin, Paris I - CNRS - Lille III (M. Crubellier, A. Jaulin, P.-M. Morel, P. Pellegrin), Sorbonne, Salle Halbwachs, Paris, France, 29 March 2008.

11) “La dottrina della sostanza nella Metafisica di Avicenna: contesti teorici, problemi, orientamenti dottrinali”,
Università degli Studi di Parma, 30 November 2009

12) “Alberto Magno ed Avicenna”,
Cycle de séminaires “Albert le Grand et le Liber de causis”, Laboratoire d’études sur  les monothéismes (M. Geoffroy), Paris, 12 March 2012

13) Presentation of the volume: The Medieval Legends of Philosophers and Scholars. Micrologus. Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies, XXI (2013)
Società internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo latino, Via Montebello, 18 Firenze, 19 aprile 2013

14) "On Knowledge of God and His Providence According to Avicenna"
Cycle de séminaires "La Providence, le destin, le mal et la matière. Un réseau de commentaires en amont et en aval d’Avicenne", LabEx Hastec, Programme collaboratif n° 5 "Commentaire / Comment-R" (M. Sebti), Paris 17 October 2014



1) “Quando le culture si parlano: filosofia greca, araba e latina in dialogo, ed il recupero odierno dell’interculturalità”
"Quando le culture si parlano". Il dialogo interculturale tra passato e presente. Come vivere la propria esperienza di fede in una società pluralista (org. Azione Cattolica Italiana, Movimento Ecclesiale di Impegno Culturale, Comune di Lucca, Scuola della Pace, Provincia di Lucca, Ufficio Diocesano per l’Ecumenismo ed il Dialogo Interreligioso), Lucca, 24 November 2012.
video: http://www.vincenzomoneta.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33&Itemid=138

2) “La traduzione dell’Enciclopedia Filosofica di Ibn Sina e il ruolo del Cairo e degli studiosi egiziani nell’analisi dell’opera”
1813 – 2014. Celebrazione dei 200 anni delle Relazioni Scientifiche tra Egitto e Italia, dagli anni di Mohammad Ali ad oggi, in concomitanza con la Terza Edizione della Settimana della Lingua araba e della Cultura egiziana in Italia: Le relazioni scientifiche, didattiche e culturali tra Egitto e Italia, Roma, Ufficio Culturale e Scientifico Egiziano, 11 Dicembre 2014 (Panel “Contributi individuali e istituzionali alla Traduzione dall’Arabo all’Italiano e viceversa”)



Yale University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
    Teaching Assistant, Greek into Arabic into Latin: Foundations of Western Culture (D. Gutas), Spring 2002.
    Part-Time Acting Instructor, Arabic Seminar: Avicenna’s Metaphysics. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Ilāhiyyāt ([Science of] Divine Things) of the Kitāb al-Šifāʾ (Book of the Cure), Spring 2004

Yale University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Italian
    Part-Time Acting Instructor, Intermediate Italian, Fall 2003

Yale University, Center for International and Area Studies
    Instructor, Elementary Arabic, 2003-4   
    Instructor, Advanced Italian, 2003-4

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Classes
“Introduzione al pensiero di Avicenna”, 2006-7 (Teaching Assistant)
“La Metafisica di Aristotele nel mondo arabo”, 2007-8 (Teaching Assistant)
“La metafisica araba e la sua ricezione latina: Avicenna, Averroè, Alberto Magno”, 2008-9 (Teaching Assistant)
“La Metafisica di Avicenna e il Commento Grande alla Metafisica di Averroè: il testo arabo, la traduzione latina, la prima fase dell’interpretazione medievale”, 2009-10 (Teaching Assistant)
“La verità è unica”. Il rapporto tra filosofia e religione nel pensiero arabo-islamico medievale (al-Kindī, al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Averroè)”, 2010-11
“Un elemento fondante della metafisica araba medievale: la dottrina dei concetti primi in al-Fārābī, Avicenna ed Averroè”, 2011-12
“La ricezione della metafisica araba nella filosofia latina del XIII secolo: l’utilizzo di Avicenna ed Averroè nel Commento alla Metafisica di Alberto Magno”, 2012-13
“Gli occhi delle nottole e la luce del sole: ricezione e trasformazione di una similitudine aristotelica (Metaph. II, 993b9-11) nell’età classica della filosofia araba (secc. IX-XII)”, 2013-14

Graduate seminars:
“La dottrina della sostanza in Avicenna”, 2006-7, 2007-8 (Teaching Assistant)
“Teoria e pratica di edizione critica di testi filosofici arabi (Arabic philosophical texts: theory and practice of editorial technique)”, 2011-12   
“Il testo arabo del commento di Averroè al libro Gamma della Metafisica” (The Arabic text of Averroes’ commentary on book Gamma of the Metaphysics), 2012-13
“Alessandro di Afrodisia, Ammonio, Gundissalino, Michele Scoto: antecedenti greci e ricezione latina dell’esegesi araba del libro Alpha Elatton della Metafisica”, 2013-14

Linguistic Training
Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Philosophical Arabic

Workshops (further information in convegni)
“Arabic Manuscript Studies: An Introduction” (Prof. Adam Gacek, McGill University), 2-6 June 2008
“Reading Arabic Manuscript: The Witness and the Text” (Prof. Adam Gacek, McGill University), 8-12 June 2009
Graduate Workshop (joint program of Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - École Normale Supérieure de Paris)
École Normale Supérieure de Paris (rue d'Ulm, Paris), 19-20 April 2012 (co-organizer: Prof. Marwan Rashed)
Graduate Workshop “Filosofia Islamica alle Scuole Normali” (joint program of Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - École Normale Supérieure de Paris - École Normale Supérieure de Paris)
SNS, 16-18 May 2013 (co-organizers: Prof. Marwan Rashed - Prof. Makram Abbes)
“Workshop européen sur la philosophie arabe : présentation de travaux d’étudiants devant les enseignants”, ENS de Lyon, 23-24 May 2014 (joint program of École Normale Supérieure de Lyon - Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - École Normale Supérieure de Paris - Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), ENS Lyon, 23-24 May 2014 (co-organizers: Prof. Makram Abbes - Prof. Marwan Rashed - Prof. Nadja Germann)

Research Cooperators from Foreign Universities
Riccardo Strobino (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), September 2012
Laura Maria Castelli (Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Munich), October 2013

Supervisions
Doctoral Research
Tommaso Alpina (2010-), Alessia Astesiano, Gaia Celli, Maria Scermino (2011-), Silvia Di Vincenzo (2013-), Niccolò Caminada (2014-)
MA thesis
2009-10: Tommaso Alpina; 2010-11: Alessia Astesiano, Gaia Celli; 2012-13: Silvia di Vincenzo; 2013-14: Niccolò Caminada
Tesi di licenza
2010-11: Tommaso Alpina, Ilaria Gaspari; 2011-12: Alessia Astesiano, Gaia Cell; 2013-14: Silvia Di Vincenzo
Colloqui di passaggio d’anno
2009-10: Gaia Celli
2010-11: Alice Casagni, Silvia Di Vincenzo, Alfonso Quartucci
2011-12: Niccolò Caminada, Alice Casagni, Silvia Di Vincenzo, Alfonso Quartucci
2012-13: Niccolò Caminada, Alice Casagni, Alfonso Quartucci
2013-14: Alice Casagni, Alfonso Quartucci, Marco Signori, Rosario Croce

Visiting Students
Farhana Ahmed (Philosophy Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Spring 2011
Meline Costa Sousa (Philosophy Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil), Spring 2013

Academic Orientation
66° Corso di Orientamento Universitario, Cortona, 27 giugno-3 luglio 2010
75° Corso di Orientamento Universitario, San Miniato, 25-30 giugno 2012

last update: 22/03/2014