Tommaso De Robertis

Postdoctoral Fellow
t.derobertis@utoronto.ca

Fields of Study

  • Europe (Northern or Western)
  • Mediterranean
  • Middle East
  • Philosophy
  • Manuscript Studies & Textual Cultures

Areas of Interest

  • Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
  • History of Science
  • History of Classical Tradition

Name of Postdoctoral Fellowship

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Global Fellow

Biography

Tommaso De Robertis is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Global Fellow. He is a scholar of late medieval and early modern European philosophy, with a special interest in the history of the Peripatetic tradition. His 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
•    “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.
•    “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.
•    Chrysostomus Javelli’s Epitome of Aristotle’s ‘Liber de bona fortuna’: Examining Fortune in Early Modern Italy. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2021. [co-authored with Valérie Cordonier]

Read more about Tommaso in the Chronica II

Education

PhD, University of Pennsylvania