Pubblications and Lectures

Publications

Critical Editions:

  • 'Editio Princeps del 'Liber qui vocatur Suda' di Roberto Grossatesta', in Studia Graeco-Arabica 4 (2014): 145-190 (together with Tiziano Dorandi).
  • The Greek Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics in the Latin Translation of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln (+1253): Anonymous and Michael of Ephesus on book V; Eustratios of Nicaea on book VI (in preparation).

Books edited or co-edited:

  • Byzantine Theology and its Philosophical Background, ed. by A. Rigo in collaboration with P. Ermilov and M. Trizio, Turnhout 2012.
  • Theologica Minora. The Minor Genres of Byzantine Theological Literature, ed. by A. Rigo in collaboration with P. Ermilov and M. Trizio, Brepols,Turnhout 2013.
  • Vie per Bisanzio. Atti del VII Congresso nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini (Venezia, 25-28 novembre 2009), a cura di A.Babuin, A. Rigo e Michele Trizio, Bari 2014. 
  • Byzantine Hagiography: Texts, Themes & Projects, ed by A. Rigo in collaboration with E. Despotakis and M. Trizio, Turnhout 2019.
  • 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies. Byzantium – Bridge Between Worlds. Venice and Padua, 22-27 August 2022. Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions, Venice 2022 (with Emiliano Fiori".

Monographs

  • Il neoplatonismo di Eustrazio di Nicea, Bari 2016 [Reviews: M. Cassin, Revue des études byzantines 77 (2019): 441-443; F. Lauritzen, International Journal of the Neoplatonic Tradition 13 (2019): 217-219; G. Karamanolis, JÖB 69 (2019), A. Barmin, Vizantiskii Vremmenik 103 (2019): 341-344)].

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  • 'Eustratius of Nicaea on Absolute and Conditional Necessity. A Survey of the Commentary on Book VI of the Nicomachean Ethics', in Archiv für mittelalterliche Philosophie und Kultur 12 (2006): 35-63.
  • '"Un uomo sapiente e Apostolico". Gregorio Palamas lettore del De Trinitate di Agostino', in Quaestio 6 (2006): 131-189.
  • 'Philosophische Kommentare im Mittelalter', Erster Teil: I. Einführung—II., in Sprachkreise, in Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 32,2 (2007): 157- 177 (with D. Wirmer, G. Guldentops, A. Speer).
  • 'Philosophische Kommentare im Mittelalter, Zweiter Teil: III. Platonica—IV, 1-2—Aristotelica arabica et byzantina', in Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 32,3 (2007): 259-290 (with D. Wirmer, G. Guldentops, A. Speer).
  • Byzantine Philosophy as a Contemporary Historiographical Object', in Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Médiévale 7.1 (2007): 247-294.
  • 'Ancient Physics in the Mid-Byzantine Period: The Epitome of Theodore of Smyrna, Consul of the Philosophers Under Alexios I Komnenos (1081- 1118)', in Bullettin de Philosophie Médiévale 54 (2012): 77-99.
  • 'Escaping through the Homeric Gates. John Italos' Neoplatonic Exegesis of Odyssey 19.562-567 between Synesius and Proclus', in Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 24 (2013): 69-83.
  • A New Testimony on the Middle Platonist Gaius', in Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 54/1 (2014): 136-145.
  • Robert Grosseteste and Eustratius of Nicaea on Concept Formation After the Fall', in Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 30/1 (2023): 81-106.
  • 'Uprooting Byzantium. Ninth-Century Byzantine Books and the Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement', in Scandinavian Journal for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 8 (2022): 105-154 (with Fabio Acerbi).
  • "The Boundaries of Philosophical and Scholarly Life in Byzantium", in Études byzantines et post-byzantines 5 (XII) (2023): 149-176.
  • Articles in books and volumes
  • Neoplatonic Source-Material in Eustratios of Nicaea's Commentary on Book VI of the Nicomachean Ethics, in C. Barber, D. Jenkins (eds.), Medieval Greek Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics, Leiden 2009: 71-110.
  • Alcune osservazioni sulla ricezione bizantina del De Trinitate di Agostino, in: A.Rigo and P. Ermilov (eds.), Byzantine Theologians. The Systematization of their own Doctrine and their Perception of Foreign Doctrines, Rome 2009: 143-168.
  • »Qui fere in hoc sensu exponunt Aristotelem« Notes on the Byzantine Sources of the Albertinian Notion of »Intellectus Possessus«, in: S. Bullido del Barrio, L. Honnefelder und H.Moehle (hrsg.), Via Alberti Texte - Quellen – Interpretationen, Subsidia Albertina 2, Münster 2009, 79-109.
  • Greek Philosophical Works Translated into Latin, in R. Pasnau (ed.), The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge 2009: 798-801.
  • Dissensio Philosophorum". Il disaccordo tra Platone e Aristotele nei commenti filosofci di Eustrazio di Nicea († ca. 1120), in A. Palazzo, L’antichità classica nel pensiero medievale. Atti del Convegno della Società italiana per lo studio del pensiero medievale (S.I.S.P.M.) Trento, 27-29 settembre 2010, Porto 2011.
  • Una è la sapienza che pervade ogni cosa". La sapienza profana nell'opera perduta di Barlaam Calabro, in A. Rigo/M. Trizio/P. Ermilov (eds.), Byzantine Theology and Its Philosophical Background, Turnhout 2011: 108-139.
  • A Neoplatonic Refutation of Islam from the Time of the Komnenoi, in A. Speer (ed.), 37. Kölner Mediaevistentagung 14.-17. September 2010: Knotenpunkt Byzanz: Wissensformen und kulturelle Wechselbeziehungen, Berlin-New York 2012: 145-166.
  • On the Byzantine Fortune of Eustratios of Nicaea's Commentary on Books I and VI of the Nicomachean Ethics, in K. Ierodiakonou - B. Bydén, The Many Faces of Byzantine Philosophy, Athens 2012: 199-224.
  • Un ammiratore bizantino di Proclo: la dottrina dell’intelletto di Eustrazio di Nicea, in A. Musco (ed.), Universalità della ragione: pluralità delle filosofie nel Medioevo: 12. Congresso internazionale di filosofia medievale: Palermo, 17-22 settembre 2007, v. 3, Palermo 2012: 359-366.
  • Premessa, in: A. Rigo/A. Babuin/M. Trizio, Vie Per Bisanzio. VIII Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini Venezia, 25-28 novembre 2009, Bari 2013: XI-XII (con A. Rigo e A. Babuin).
  • Eliodoro di Prusa e i commentatori greco-bizantini di Aristotele, in A. Rigo, A. Babuin and M. Trizio, Vie per Bisanzio. Atti del VIII Congresso Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini. Venezia, 25-28 novembre 2009, Bari 2013: 803-830.
  • A Late-Antique Debate on Matter-Evil Revisited in Byzantium: John Italos and his Quaestio 93, in G. van Riel, P. d'Hoine (eds.), Fate, Providence and Moral Responsibility in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Thought. Studies in Honour of Carlos Steel, Leuven 2014: 383-394.
  • Eleventh- to twelfth-century Byzantium, in S. Gersh (ed.), Interpreting Proclus from Antiquity to the Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014: 182-214.
  • From Anne Komnene to Dante: the Byzantine Roots of Western Debates on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, in J. Ziolkowski (ed.), Dante and the Greeks, Cambridge MA 2014: 105-139
  • The Waves of Passions and the Stillness of the Sea: Appropriating Neoplatonic Imagery and Concept-Formation Theory in Middle Byzantine Commentaries on Aristotle, in S. Mariev (ed.), Byzantine Perspectives on Neoplatonism, Berlin/Boston 2017: 67-78.
  • Reading and Commenting on Aristotle, in A. Kaldellis & N. Siniossoglou (eds.), The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium, Cambridge 2017: 397-412
  • Trials of Philosophers and Theologians under the Komnenoi, in A. Kaldellis & N. Siniossoglou (eds.), The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium, Cambridge 2017: 462-476.
  • The Byzantine Tradition on EN 6.5.1140b16-17, in J. Fink (ed.), Phantasia in Aristotle's Ethics Reception in the Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin Traditions, Bloomsbury 2018: 65-77.
  • The Byzantine Reception of Aristotle's Parva Naturalia (and the Zoological Works) in Eleventh- and Twelfth-century Byzantium: an Overview, in B. Bydén and F. Radovic (eds), The Parva Naturalia in Greek, Arabic and Latin Aristotelianism. Supplementing the Science of the Soul, Springer 2018: 155-168.
  • Socrates in Byzantium, in C. Moore (ed.), The Brill Companion to the Reception of Socrates, Leiden 2019: 592-617.
  • Nicholas of Methone, Procopius of Gaza, Proclus of Lycia, in D. Calma, Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Leiden 2020: 94-135 (with Anna Gioffreda).
  • Un'eredità difficile.La ‘collezione filosofica’ alla prova dei secoli XI e XII: il caso dei commentatori, in F. Ronconi and D. Bianconi, La «collection philosophique» face a l’histoire, Spoleto 2020: 119-167.
  • Eustratios of Nicaea: An Hitertho Unknown 'Master of Rhetors' in the Late Eleventh Century, in C. Dendrinos and I. Giarenis (eds), Bibliophilos: Books and Learning in the Byzantine World, Berlin 2021: 359-368 (with Antonio Rigo).
  • Eustratios of Nicaea and the Nicomachean Ethics in Twelfth-Century Constantinople: Literary Criticism, Patronage and the Construction of the Byzantine Commentary Tradition, in A. Marmodoro and S. Xenophontos (eds), The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, Cambridge 2021, 193-211.
  • Forging Identities between Heaven and Earth, Commentaries on Aristotle and Authorial Practices in Eleventh and Twelfth-Century Byzantium, in Baukje van den Berg, ‎Divna Manolova, ‎Przemysław Marciniak (eds), Byzantine Commentaries in Ancient Greek Texts, Cambridge 2022, 61-98.
  • The Neoplatonism of Barlaam the Calabrian, in K. Parry, E. Anagnostou, Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews and Muslims, Leiden 2023, 244-27.

Encyclopedia or Lexicon Entries

  • 'Barlaam the Calabrian', in M. Sgarbi (ed.) Springer Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, Springer 2017.

Reviews

  • Metaphysica, sapientia, scientia divina: soggetto e statuto della filosofia prima nel medioevo, in: Bullettin de Philosophie Médiévale 46 (2004): 226-255.
  • A. Fyrigos, Le Epistole Greche di Barlaam Calabro, Quaestio 5 (2005): 619-630.
  • A. Rigo, Mistici Bizantini, in Quaestio 9 (2009): 412-417.
  • Michael Attaleiates, The History, trans. Anthony Kaldellis & Dimitris Krallis, Harvard University Press, Cambridge/Mass. 2012,in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (02une 2013) http://www.bmcreview.org/2013/06/20130602.html).
  • Telelis, Ioannis, ed., Georgios Pachymeres, Philosophia, Book 3: In Aristotelis de Caelo Commentary. Editio princeps. Prolegomena, Text, Indices. Athens 2016, The Medieval Review 18.05.21.
  • James Wilberding, Julia Trompeter, Alberto Rigolio (trans.), Michael of Ephesus: On Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics 10; Themistius: On Virtue. Ancient commentators on Aristotle, Bloomsbury 2019, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.08.26.
  • Nikos Agiotis, Leon Magentenos. Commentary on Aristotle, Prior Analytics (Book II): critical edition with introduction and translation. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina, 5. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2022.09.16.
  • Peter Adamson, Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy, Oxford 2022, in Speculum 98/4 (2023), 1196–1197.

Lectures

  • Greek Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics, workshop del febbraio 2006 organizzato dall’Università di Notre Dame (Indiana). Lecture title: Neoplatonic Source-material in Eustratios of Nicaea’s commentary on Book VI of the Nicomachean Ethics.
  • International Conference Organized by the Société pour l’étude de la philosophie médiévale (SIEPM), Universalità della ragione, pluralità delle filosofie, Palermo, 20/09/2007. Lecture title: An Admirer of Proclus in Early Twelfth Century Byzantium. Eustratius of Nicaea and the Reasons of his Fortune in the Latin West.
  • Vie per Bisanzio, VIII Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione italiana studi bizantini, Venezia 25-28 novembre 2009. Lecture title: Alcune note sui lettori bizantini di Eustrazio di Nicea.
  • XIX congresso della Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale (SISPM), Trento 27-29 settembre 2010. Lecture title: Erudizione e filologia nei commenti ad Aristotele di Eustrazio di Nicea (ca. †1120).
  • Knotenpunkt Byzanz: Wissensformen und kulturelle Wechselbeziehungen, 14. bis 17. September 2010, Universität zu Köln, 37. Mediaevistentagung. Lecture title: “The notion of intellectual freedom in 11th-12th century Byzantium”.
  • Dante and the Greeks, a symposium organized by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Collection in collaboration with the Dante Society of America, the Lauro de Bosis Fund, Harvard University, the Committee on Medieval Studies della Harvard University, and Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Italian Cultural Institute) di Washington, DC, Washington DC, 01- 03/10/2010. Lecture title: From Anna Comnena to Dante: the Byzantine Roots of Western Debates on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.
  • Aristotle's Ethics in the West and the Byzantine Commentary Tradition, a seminarforspecialistgivenattheUniversityofHarvard onapril11th2012.
  • L’Etica Nicomachea: recezione tardo-antica, araba, bizantina e medievale, Settimana di formazione Gral, Pisa 28-30/05/2012. Lecture title: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in the West and the Byzantine Commentary Tradition.
  • Philosophie in Byzanz, I conference organized by the Arbeitskreis Ganph devoted to philosophy in Byzantium, Bonn 19 aprile 2013. Lecture title: Ancient Physics in the Mid-Byzantine Period. The Epitome of Theodore of Smyrna, Consul of the Philosophers under Alexios I Komnenos (1081- 1118).
  • Proclus in Byzantium, a workshop organized by the University of Notre Dame (Indiana), London 31/05/2013/01/06/2013. Lecture title: “Proclus' Commentary on Alcibiades I in the Greek Middle Ages.”
  • Aristoteles in Byzanz, II conference organized by the Arbeitskreis Ganph devoted to philosophy in Byzantium, Bonn 04/04/2014. Lecture title: “Hellenism a runaway slave”. Philosophy, Performance and Social Promotion in 11th-12th c. Byzantium.
  • The Reception of Aristotelian Ethics in Latin, Byzantine, Arabic and Hebrew Traditions. From Antiquity to the Middle Ages, a workshop organized by the University of Bern, Bern 20-21/11/2014. Lecture title: The impact of the Byzantine commentary tradition on Western debates on the Nicomachean Ethics.
  • Moral Agency and its Constraints, FIRB conference, Lecce 31/08- 02/09/2015. Lecture title: The Byzantine debate over the predetermination of the hour of death: an overview and a case-study.
  • VIII Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione italiana studi bizantini, Ravenna 22-25 settembre 2015. Lecture title: Gli scolii al “De interpretatione” attribuiti a Michele di Efeso: un’indagine preliminare.
  • Phantasia in Aristotelian Ethics and its reception among Arabic, Greek and Latin Aristotelians, Workshop del progetto Representation and Reality, Historical and Contemporary Perceptions on the Aristotelian Tradition, dell’Università di Goteborg, Goteborg 7-8 novembre 2015. Lecture title: The Byzantine Tradition on EN 6.5.1040b17-18.
  • Le stelle, i regni, le credenze, le masse. Astrologia politica nel mediterraneo tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, Bari 08-10/06/2016. Lecture title: The Precarious Balance of Astrology in Byzantium.
  • Michael of Ephesus Commentator and Philosopher, Bochum 29-30 september 2016. Lecture title: Michael of Ephesus on De interpretatione.
  • Philosophy in Byzantium: The Order of Nature and Order of Humankind, Munich 4-5 October 2017. Lecture Title: Robert Grosseteste, the Posterior Analytics and Adam's Fall. 
  • Preserving, Commenting, Adapting: Commentaries on Ancient Texts in Twelfth-Century Byzantium, University of Silesia, Centre for Studies on Byzantine Literature and Reception Katowice, 20-22 October 2017. Lecture title: Unfolding Meanings, Forging Identities: Commentaries on Aristotle and Authorial Practices in Twelfth-Century Byzantium.
  • Durham, 8 March 2018, Classics Department Research Seminar Series: Lecture title: The Dark Sphinx from Stagira: Mediating, Interpreting, and Contesting Aristotle in the Greek Middle Ages. 
  • University of Gent, HPIMS Autumn School for Medieval Philosophy: one conference and two seminars. 
  • Macquarie University Sydney, 9 November 2018, Workshop “Byzantine Neoplatonism”, lecture title: “What counted as philosophy in Byzantium? In search of the Neoplatonic tradition in the Greek Middle Ages”.
  • Universität Jena, Interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung, 02.05.2019. Lecture title: Robert Grosseteste and his Commentary on Posterior Analytics: New Findings on its Byzantine Sources and their Impact on Grosseteste's Epistemology.
  • University of Utrecht, 13/14 February 2020, Workshop "In Search for Illumination. Greek and Islamic Epistemologies. Lecture title: Neoplatonic Theories of Intellect in Byzantium.
  • Paris, SIEPM conference, 22 July 2022. Lecture title: Four Radical Philosophers of the Greek Middle Ages.
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