Translatio Studiorum

Marco Sgarbi, Ph.D. (2010) in Philosophy, University of Verona, is Jean-François Malle-Harvard I Tatti Fellow at Villa I Tatti. The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. He has published extensivley on Kant, Aristotelianism and the methodology of the history of philosophy including La Kritik der reinen Vernunft nel contesto della tradizione logica aristotelica (Olms, 2010), Logica e metafisica nel Kant pre-critico (Peter Lang, 2010), Immanuel Kant, Critica del Juicio (Maya, 2011), Kant on Spontaneity (Continuum, 2012), Kant e l'irrazionale (Mimesis, 2012) and The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism. Logic and Epistemology in the British Isles (1570–1689) (Springer, 2012).

• Preface, Marco SgarbiNotes on ContributorsTranslatio Studiorum, Tullio GregoryPART 1: ANCIENT TRANSLATIO STUDIORUMPhysics as Philosophy of Happiness: The Transmission of Scientific Tenets in Epicurus, Emidio SpinelliFrom Aristotle to Strato of Lampsacus: The Translatio of the Notion of Time in the Early Peripatetic Tradition, Francesco VerdeThe Notion of Being as Act in Neoplatonism and its Transmission in the Translatio Studiorum, Rita SalisPART 2: MEDIEVAL TRANSLATIO STUDIORUMTranslatio Textuum, Claudio LeonardiTranslatio Studiorum through Philosophical Terminology, Giacinta SpinosaTranslatio studiorum et instruments de travail philosophiques médiévaux à l’époque scolastique, Jacqueline HamessePART 3: RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN TRANSLATIO STUDIORUMIlla litteris Graecis abdita: Bessarion, Plato, and the Western World, Eva Del SoldatoAristotle to the Rescue: Pererius, Charron, Glanvill and Thomasius, Constance BlackwellCartesianism and History: From the Rejection of the Past to the “Critical History of Philosophy”, Gregorio PiaiaDealbare Aethiopem: A Metaphor of the Translatio Studiorum to the Origins of Modernity, Marta FattoriDescartes’s Physics vs. Fear of Death? An Endless Translatio of Thoughts and Bodies, Vasiliki GrigoropoulouSub specie aeternitatis: Translating Temporality in Spinoza. Problems and Interpretations, Pina TotaroPART 4: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY TRANSLATIO STUDIORUMFrom Rousseau to Kant: A Case of Translatio Iudicii, Hansmichael HoheneggerHegel’s Translation of Platonic “Analogy,” Valerio Rocco LozanoInteraction Ritual Changes, Martin J. BurkeEpilogue: Translatio Studiorum in the Future, Riccardo PozzoIndex

‘’These individual essays […] will be of great interest to scholars working on philosophical history and on the periods or authors touched upon in the book — and it is of course to the editor’s credit that he managed to include them in this […] fascinating collection.’’Massimiliano Morini, University of Udine. In: Renaissance Quaterly, Vol. 67, No. 2, Summer 2014, p. 649.