
Marco Sgarbi
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, Manuscripts, incunabula, and special collections, Fritz Thyssen Fellow
Marco Sgarbi (Mantua, 1982) is full professor of history of philosophy. He was the PI of the ERC Starting Grant 2013 on "Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular: Rethinking Renaissance and Early-Modern Intellectual History (c. 1400–c. 1650)". He has been a Jean-François Malle-Harvard I Tatti Fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Address: Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali
Università Ca' Foscari
Dorsoduro 3246
30123, Venezia - Italia
Address: Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali
Università Ca' Foscari
Dorsoduro 3246
30123, Venezia - Italia
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theories and determined the adoption of specific features of a given language. It focuses on the Aristotelian traces in Sperone Speroni, Alessandro Piccolomini, Giovan Battista Gelli and Benedetto Varchi, in order to explain why most theorists of the vernacular language who contributed to the establishment of vernacular as a language of culture appear to criticize Bembo’s theoretical model, whether directly or indirectly, even when there was compliance on a practical level.
Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.