Tommaso De Robertis is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Global Fellow at the University of Macerata and the University of Toronto. He is a scholar of late medieval and early modern European philosophy, with a special interest in the history of the Peripatetic tradition. His current research project focuses on the impact of 6th-century Alexandrian philosopher John Philoponus on the development of key scientific concepts in 15th- and 16th-century Europe.
Selected Publications
Books and Volumes
Tommaso De Robertis & Luca Burzelli (eds), Chrysostomus Javelli: Pagan Philosophy and Christian Thought in the Renaissance. Cham: Springer, 2023.
Valérie Cordonier & Tommaso De Robertis, Chrysostomus Javelli’s Epitome of Aristotle’s ‘Liber de bona fortuna’: Examining Fortune in Early Modern Italy. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2021.
Articles and Chapters
“Neither Plato nor Aristotle: Javelli’s Project of Christian Philosophy”. In Tommaso De Robertis & Luca Burzelli (eds), Chrysostomus Javelli: Pagan Philosophy and Christian Thought in the Renaissance, 211-230. Cham: Springer, 2023.
“Girolamo Garimberti ‘lettore aristotelico’ di Machiavelli”. Bruniana & Campanelliana 28/2 (2022): 565-581.
“Per una storia della ricezione del Liber de bona fortuna nel Cinquecento italiano: Crisostomo Javelli e Girolamo Garimberti”. Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana 101 (2022): 112-131.
“Platonic Science in the Vernacular: Sebastiano Erizzo’s Italian Translation of Plato’s Timaeus (1557)”. In Anna Corrias & Eva Del Soldato (eds), Harmony and Contrast: Plato and Aristotle in the Early Modern Period, 206-230. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
“Odysseus Goes to Florence: Notes on the First Italian Translation of Homer’s Odyssey (1582)”. Rinascimento 61 (2021): 547-570.
“A New Source for Boccaccio’s Concept of Fortune: The Pseudo-Aristotelian Liber de bona fortuna”. Heliotropia 16-17 (2019-2020): 169-187 [winner of the 2017 Giuseppe Velli Prize].