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    Il filosofo e la città
    Itinera 4. 2012.
    If the few sources at our disposal on the life and the works of Hypatia of Alexandria leave many unanswered questions about her role on the history of philosophy, her death, brought about a Christian mob, gives space to some possible analogies between the Alexandrine philosopher and Socrates, timeless paradigm of injustice against the wise. This paper, following Leo Strauss’s analyses on classical political philosophy, aims at inquiring this suggestion to reveal the hard, if not impossible, rela…Read more
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    Introduzione
    with Pietro Conte
    Itinera 9. 2015.
    Multiform witness of the power of language, the myth reveals itself as a privileged form of investigation of the human and its transformations. With this introduction we want to start a journey of mythological research that, overcoming the sterile reduction of the myth to mere expression of a pre-scientific and pre-rational mentality, moves in search of the core of truth hidden under the surface of the "fairy tale".
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    Will and Sacrifice: Victimary Representations in Ibsen's Rosmersholm
    Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 19 167-177. 2012.
    In his short essay, “Some Character-Types Met With in Psycho-Analytic Work,” published in 1916 in the review Imago, Freud identifies Ibsen’s drama Rosmersholm (1886) as a perfect example of an Oedipus complex in a modern setting. The story is well known. After the suicide of his wife Beata, brought about by the impossibility of bearing children and by the misery of an existence sacrificed to social and religious duties, John Rosmer, a Protestant pastor, has lost his old faith and is desirous of …Read more
  • Montaigne and diversity of the affected
    Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 66 (3): 549-551. 2011.