Amalia Salvestrini

Amalia Salvestrini (Milan 1991) is Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan (project funded by the Cariplo Foundation: «Harmonia and affectus. Franciscan Aesthetics, Giottesque Painting and the Humanists»). After a Second Level Academic Diploma in Viola at the Milan Conservatory and a Master Degree in Philosophical Sciences (UNIMI), she obtained a PhD in co-tutorship between the FINO Consortium and the EPHE (Paris), and she had a Research Fellow at the IISF (Naples). Her publications include the monographs Bellezza retorica. Un percorso tematico nel pensiero di Nicola di Autrécourt, Preface by Christophe Grellard, Mimesis 2021 and L’artefice nel pensiero francescano, Preface by Olivier Boulnois, Milano University Press 2023. Currently, her research concerns pre-modern origins of aesthetics, the relationships between Franciscan thought and Giottesque art, music and rhetoric, medieval gnoseology theories, the arts paragons, gnoseological aesthetic and musical issues developed from a phenomenological perspective.