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B&C, 2021

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BRUNIANA & CAMPANELLIANA, vol. Anno XXVI, p. 597-608, 2020

According to Campanella, everything is governed by divine providence. Nature and metaphysics are overlapped, and will, self-preservation and sense, are the linking elements between the multiple levels of reality. This conjunction makes up the ens realis of Campanella’ metaphysics. In such a perspective, physiology is the particular science that first allows man to understand the complex unity at the ground of the world, while the practical sciences serve to govern this unity in order to respond to the will of God that is expressed in the plan of providence. Thus, Campanella lays the foundations for a new interpretation of the relationship between natural philosophy and metaphysics, that finds in the physician Marco Aurelio Severino an important scholar.

In his philosophy of nature, Tommaso Campanella manages to combine the description of a close to autonomous, all-material, animated world with the notion that it is, nonetheless, product and image of a transcendental divine principle. The trinitarian structure of all being(s) and God’s embracing the cosmos as its first agent and last final cause show both the presence and the distance of the divine in and from the world.

Bruniana & Campanelliana, 2022

In this paper I reconstruct and discuss Antonio Rubio (1546-1615)’s theory of the composition of the continuum, as set out in his Tractatus de compositione continui, a part of his influential commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, published in 1605 but rewritten in 1606. Here I attempt especially to show that Rubio’s is a significant case of Scholastic overlapping between Aristotle’s theory of infinitely divisible parts and indivisibilism or ‘Zenonism’, i.e. the theory that allows for indivisibles, extensionless points, lines, and surfaces, which are supposed to take part in the composition of the continuum. Even if such a syncretic tendency was, in many different ways, already developing in the medieval period and then at the end of the sixteenth century, Rubio’s position is indeed peculiar. He maintains that indivisibles are real and actual, infinite in act, really distinct from each other, and that, although they indwell in substance, indivisibles do not contribute directly to the constitution of the continuum. In this reconstruction I emphasize notably Rubio’s usage of mereological notions like those of part, whole, completeness and incompleteness.

Bruniana & Campanelliana, 2022

This Introduction provides some conceptual guidelines on the two intertwined topics covered by this section. On the one hand, it sets out some of the main notions of the medieval debate on parts and wholes. It stresses notably that, if medieval philosophers were aware of the whole-parts problem and elaborated complex and refined metaphysical doctrines to account for it, Renaissance and early modern philosophy also likely elaborated and employed similar mereological notions. On the other hand, it recalls some problems related to the theories of material composition, pointing out that such doctrines cannot be disjoined from the logic of parts and wholes. Hence, mereological concepts actually work in the background of such debates. The leading hypothesis of this section is, therefore, that the conceptual apparatus of mereology could have offered strategies to build bridges between different conceptions of matter, and that it might have played a relevant role in shaping and accounting for models of material composition in the early modern period.

Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medievale, 2023

RIVISTA DI CULTURA CLASSICA E MEDIOEVALE - anno lxv · numero 2 · luglio-dicembre 2023 - pisa · roma fabrizio serra · editore mmxxiii

Bruniana & Campanelliana, 2022

This article brings into focus Campanella’s use of the biblical prophecy of Noah as a 'figura' of universal governance. The philosopher’s prophetic, political, and theological writings show this prophecy to be a fundamental source employed to underpin his theories on dovetailing religious and political authority. Although Noah’s eldest son, Shem, is presented as prefiguring the papacy, under whose aegis the universal monarchy was to be established, this article argues that, ultimately, the realization of global governance mattered more to Campanella than who would accomplish it.

SPCT 2021 (num. speciale "Una magnifica passione", per Emilio Pasquini, 2021

The paper collects from previous scholarship and increases intertextual references between Pietro Bembo’s Rime and Dante’s “rime per la donna Pietra”, considering Petrarchan medium. The analysis is carried out in a chronological perspective, through the different “forms” of Bembo’s book of poetry, and aims at tracing the evolution of Bembo’s asperitas, from juvenile “petrosità” to mature asperitas/gravitas.

Storiografia. Supplemento critico e bibliografico, 2023

Tradition and Restoration in a Book by Giovanni Bonacina · The author discusses a book that reconstructs the intellectual endeavors of four authors who, at different stages of the nineteenth century, advanced unequal doctrines but all inspired by the principles of political conservatism, Haller, Eckstein, Stahl and Bauer, to which is added an in-depth study, as broad on its own as a small monograph, on the historiographical myth of Julian the Apostate.

2020

Indice e Premessa del volume "Letteratura medievale e testi profetici. Le profezie in versi nel Trecento", a cura Lorenzo Geri e Michele Lodone («Linguistica e Letteratura», XLV, 1-2, 2020, pp. 9-307)