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Soma (Σῶμα), in Das Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum, Stuttgart: Hiersemann Verlag, 2021.Das Reallexikon Für Antike Und Christentum. forthcoming.
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I Sette Sapienti. Vite e opinioniBompiani. 2005.Introductory essay, translation, updating and bibliography
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Epicureanism and Early ChristianityIn Phillip Mitsis (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Epicureanism, . pp. 582-612. 2020.Many fragments and testimonies in Usener’s collection, Epicurea, come from ancient Christian sources. This essay explores Patristic interest in Epicureanism, which is often critical, and sometimes imprecise or distorted, but tangible. It shows how the fading away of the availability and use of good sources on Epicureanism, along with the disappearance of the Epicurean school itself, brought about a progressive impoverishment and hostility among Christian authors with respect to Epicurus and Epic…Read more
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Allegoristi dell’età classicaBompiani - Catholic university. 2007.Editions of, translations of, and essays and commentaries on: Ancient Stoics (pp. 1-107), Apollodorus of Athens (pp. 111-217), Crates of Mallus (pp. 219-327), Palaephatus (pp. 329-365), authors De Incredibilibus (pp. 367-400), Conon (pp. 401-442), Cicero ND II-III (pp. 443-483), Cornutus (pp. 485-560), Heraclitus Grammaticus (pp. 561-669), Chaeremon (pp. 671-707), Ps. Plutarch, De Vita et Poesi Homeri (pp. 709-820), Plutarch, De Daedalis Plataeensibus (pp. 821-832); Cebetis Tabula (pp. 833-860),…Read more
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Revisitation of the much debated issue of the mind-body relation in Origen, with new insights, discussion of evidence, and of scholarship.
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"Origen on the Unity of Soul and Body in the Earthly life and Afterwards and His Impact", in The Unity of Soul and Body in Patristic and Byzantine Thought, eds. Jörg Ulrich, Anna Usacheva, and Siam Bhayro, Leiden: Brill, 2020, pp. 38-77.In Jorg Ulrich & Anna Usacheva (eds.), The Unity of Soul and Body in Patristic and Byzantine Thought., Brill. pp. 38-77. 2020.
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Filosofia emendata. Elementi connessi col Neoplatonismo nell'esegesi esamerale di Gregorio di Nissa (I. Ramelli)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 99 (3): 553. 2007.
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"Stoic Homeric Allegoresis," in Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity, ed. Christina-Panagiota Manolea, Leiden: Brill, 2021.In Christina-Panagiota Manolea (ed.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity.. forthcoming.
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Il Contra Fatum di Gregorio di Nissa nel dibattito tardo-antico sul fatalismo e sul determinismo (review)The Medieval Review 11. 2009.
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Slavery and Religion in Late Antiquity: Their Relation to Asceticism and Justice in Christianity and Judaism, in: Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150–700 CE., ed. Chris L. De Wet, Maijastina Kahlos, and Ville Vuolanto, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.In Christian De Wet (ed.), Slavery in the Late Antique World. forthcoming.
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CL GRISWOLD, Forgiveness: A Philosophical ExplorationRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 100 (4): 658. 2008.
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Review of Roberto Alciati (ed.), Norm and Exercise: Christian asceticism between late antiquity and early middle ages, Stuttgart, F. Steiner, 2018 (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 65), 202 p.: «Latomus» 79 (2020), pp. 794-796. doi: 10.2143/LAT.79.3.0000000 (review)Latomus 79 794-796. 2020.
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Corpus HermeticumBompiani, Series: Il Pensiero Occidentale. pp. 1627. 2005.Translation, bibliography, commentary, and an updating essay including a translation from the Coptic text of, and a commentary on, the new Nag Hammadi Hermetica.
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Religion and Science in Gregory of Nyssa: The Unity of the Creative and Scientific LogosMarburg Journal of Religion 22. 2020.
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Il βασιλεύς come νόμος ἔμψυχος tra diritto naturale e diritto divino: spunti platonici del concetto e sviluppi di età imperiale e tardoantica (Marcello Gigante Prize 2006)Bibliopolis, Memoirs of the Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies 34. 2006.Il presente studio si pone in ideale continuità con l’opera di Marcello Gigante Nomos Basileus, analisi fondamentale della nascita e delle interrelazioni tra diritto naturale, diritto divino e diritto positivo nel mondo greco, prendendo le mosse proprio dal punto in cui questi aveva interrotto la sua indagine, ossia sulle concezioni platoniche del nomos e le sue connessioni con il divino, l’anima e l’educazione. In Platone sono rintracciate le premesse teoretiche della concezione, poi diffusa in…Read more
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A reappraisal of Gregory Nyssen's thought on mind-body relations, with many new insights, analysis of sources and discussion of scholarship.
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"‘Pagan’ and Christian Platonism in Dionysius: The Double-Reference Scheme and Its Meaning", in Byzantine Platonists 284-1453, eds Frederick Lauritzen and Sarah Klitenic Wear, Theandrites: Studies in Byzantine Platonism and Christian Philosophy, Steubenville: Franciscan University Press, 2021.In Frederick Lauritzen & Sarah Klitenic Wear (eds.), Byzantine Platonists 284-1453, Franciscan University Press. 2021.
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This book analyses Eriugena’s Christian Platonic ideas on theology, cosmology, anthropology, epistemology, and ethics, and their sources in Patristic philosophical theology and ancient philosophy. The first part is devoted to Eriugena’s theology: thus, it focusses on God from a variety of perspectives, some of them also comparative in their nature. The second part consists in research into Eriugena's cosmology, anthropology, and ethics, including virtue ethics. The two large sections are interre…Read more
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Jesus of Nazareth, in The Oxford Classical Dictionary, digital edition, ed. Sander Goldberg, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, and Tim Whitmarsh, Oxford: OUP, 2021.Oxford Classical Dictionary. forthcoming.
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Caritone e la storiografia greca. Il 'tomanzo di Calliroe' come romanzo storico anticoACME: Annali della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell'Università degli studi di Milano 53 (1): 43-62. 2000.
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The origins of philosophy: Greek or barbaric? The enigmatic myth of Dione's' Boristenitico'Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 99 (2): 185-214. 2007.
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The Question of Origen's Conversion and His Philosophico-Theological Lexicon of Epistrophē, Main Lecture, International Conference, Religious and Philosophical Conversion, Bonn University, 25-27 September 2018, in: Greek and Byzantine Philosophical Exegesis, ed. James B. Wallace and Athanasios Despotis, Leiden: Brill, 2021.In James B. Wallace & Athanasios Despotis (eds.), Greek and Byzantine Philosophical Exegesis, Brill Schoningh. 2022.
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Philosophical Allegoresis of Scripture in Philo and its Legacy in Gregory of NyssaThe Studia Philonica Annual 20 55-100. 2008.
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Sacred Heart UniversityAlumnus (MA, MA, Postdoc), Then Fellow
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Durham UniversityProfessor, Hon.
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Cambridge UniversityMember, Centre for The Study of Platonism
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Angelicum (US)Graduate SchoolDistinguished Professor
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Princeton UniversitySenior Fellow
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