Amos Bertolacci

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Amos Bertolacci
Curriculum Vitae
last update: 4 April 2018

Amos Bertolacci

History of Medieval Philosophy (Islamic Philosophy) (M-FIL/08)
History of Philosophy 11/C5

IMT School of Advanced Studies, Lucca
[email protected]

I - EDUCATION

Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Ph.D., Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, May 2005. Dissertation: “The
Reception of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ: Textual and
Doctrinal Analysis”; Dimitri Gutas, adviser.
William J. Horwitz Prize for continuous excellence and distinction in a chosen
discipline in the field of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
M.Phil., 2001.
Orals passed with distinction, May 2000.

University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Doctorate (Ph.D. equivalent), Philosophy, 1998. Dissertation: “Avicenna ed Averroè
come fonti del Commento di Alberto Magno alla Metafisica di Aristotele: la dottrina
dei trascendentali nei commentatori arabi di Aristotele e nel tredicesimo secolo latino”
(Avicenna and Averroes as Sources of Albertus Magnus’ Commentary on Aristotle’s
Metaphysics: The Doctrine of Transcendentals in the Arab Commentators of Aristotle
and in the Latin 13th c.); Massimo Mugnai, adviser.

University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Laurea (M.A. equivalent), Philosophy, 1991. Dissertation: “Il Commento di Paolo
Veneto ai libri IV e VI della Metafisica di Aristotele e la tradizione esegetica
medievale” (Paul of Venice’s Commentary on Books IV and VI of Aristotle’s
Metaphysics and the Medieval Exegetical Tradition); Francesco Del Punta, adviser.

II - ACADEMIC CAPACITIES

II.1 - POSITIONS

IMT School of Advanced Studies, Lucca
Full Professor (March 2018-)
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Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Professor on contract (March 2018-)

Associate Professor (April 2010-March 2018)

Fellow of the Program “‘Incentivazione alla mobilità di studiosi stranieri e italiani
residenti all’estero’ (DM 1.2.2005, n.18)” (= “Rientro dei Cervelli”) (September 2006-
April 2010).

II.2 - OTHER ACADEMIC FUNCTIONS

DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Referee Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2016
Referee Research Projects

École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
Member of the committee for the soutenance d’habilitation of Makram Abbès,
"Autour du politique en Islam: arts de gouverner, pensée de la guerre et problème
théologico-politique", 25 November 2013.

École Normale Supérieure de Paris, rue d’Ulm, Paris, France
Member of the committee for the evaluation of the Ph.D. thesis of Yamina Adhouane,
“Une critique ash‘arite post-rushdienne de la cosmologie d’Avicenne: traduction et
commentaire de la « Quintessence des Intellects » d’Abû al-Ḥajjâj al-Miklâtî (m.
1229)”, 12 December 2015

ERC (European Research Council)
Expert contracted to help manage the EU and Euratom research and innovation
programmes (2015-)
MIUR (Ministero Italiano dell’Università e della Ricerca)
Referee Programma per Giovani Ricercatori "Rita Levi Montalcini" 2012
Referee SIR 2016
Referee VQR 2011-2014
Referee FIRB Ex-post 2018

NRW AWK (Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste)
Referee Research Projects

Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Delegate of the Director for International Strategies (November 2010-December 2012)
President of the Commissione Contributi per la Mobilità degli Studenti della Classe di
Scienze Umane
Member of the Doctoral Committee in Philosophy
Member of the Doctoral Committee in Classics
Member of the Commissione Ricerca
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Member of the Comitato Scientifico del Centro Biblioteca
Member of the Collegio di Disciplina
Member of the Commissione Convegni della Classe di Scienze Umane

SISMEL (Società Italiana per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino)
Responsabile della Sezione Filosofica

II.3 - HABILITATIONS

Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (Bando 2012)
Habilitation to Full Professor in Area 11/C5 (2014-2020)

III - RESEARCH

III.1 – PROJECTS FINANCED

ERC Advanced Grant 2013 (ERC-2013-ADG), Grant Agreement 339621
Project "Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations and Intellectual Endeavours:
Towards a Critical Edition of the Metaphysics (Ilahiyyat of Kitab al-Shifa’) of
Avicenna (Ibn Sina)" (PhiBor) (5 years, Euros 1.140.800); Host Institution: Scuola
Normale Superiore di Pisa; capacity: Principal Investigator,
http://www.avicennaproject.eu/

ERC Advanced Grant 2011 (ERC-2011_ADG), Grant agreement 269774
Project “Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions” (DASI)
(March 2011-2016, Euros 2.129.200); Host Institution: University of Pisa, Additional
Institution: SNS; capacity: investigator for SNS (Budget: Euros 852.400) (PI: Prof.
Alessandra Avanzini)

MIUR, Bando PRIN 2012
Responsabile scientifico dell’Unità locale della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
(“Greco-Arabo-Latino: Aristotelismo e Platonismo nella tradizione esegetica tardo-
antica e medievale”), nell’ambito del progetto nazionale "L'universalità e i suoi limiti:
meccanismi di inclusione ed esclusione nella storia della filosofia e nei dibattiti
filosofici contemporanei", presentato in forma sintetica per la prima valutazione
presso l'Università del Salento (Prof. Loris Sturlese), in progress

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
SNS Research Project: “The Status of Specific Difference in Arabic Logic and Natural
Philosophy during the X-XI centuries”, 2015-16 (€ 56.800)

SNS Research Project: “The Manuscripts of Avicenna’s Metaphysics: Reproduction,
Inventory, On-line Publication”, 2011-2012 (€ 46.000)

SNS Research Project: “Studio della tradizione manoscritta araba della Metafisica di
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Avicenna (Scienza delle cose divine del Libro della Guarigione)”, 2008

III.2 - FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Special Research Fellowship, September 2005-August 2006 (University of Cologne,
Thomas-Institut; research project: “The Arabic Sources of Albertus Magnus’
Commentary on the Metaphysics: Avicenna and Averroes”)

Residence Allowance, January 2008 (University of Cologne, Thomas-Institut;
research project: Arabic-Latin apparatus and Lexica in Averroes, Middle Commentary
on Aristotle’s Categories)

Yale University
Ph.D. fellowship, academic years 1998-2003
J. F. Enders research grant, Summer 2001
J. F. Enders research grant, Summer 2002

University of Florence
Doctorate fellowship, academic years 1993-1997
Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
Grant for the attendance of the seminar Alfarabi and the Classical Tradition (prof. M.
Mahdi), Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, Italy, 21-25 March 1994.

III.3 - PRIZES

Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
William J. Horwitz Prize for continuous excellence and distinction in a chosen
discipline in the field of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 2005.

IV - JOURNALS AND SERIES

Direction:
Co-director of Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale. An International
Journal on the Philosophical Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages of the
Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (S.I.S.M.E.L.)

Editorial Board of:
Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore

Advisory Board of:
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press.
Oriens: Journal of Philosophy, Theology and Science in Islamic Societies, Brill.
Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales, Peeters.
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Series “Studies on the Faculty of Arts: History and Influence (SFAHI)”, Brepols, Turnhout
Series “Ediciones y Estudios Benito Arias Montano”, Sindéresis, Madrid-Oporto

V - ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS

Societies:
Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (S.I.E.P.M.)
Société Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences et de la Philosophie Arabes et Islamiques
(S.I.H.S.P.A.I.)
Società Italiana per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (S.I.S.M.E.L.)
Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale (S.I.S.P.M.)

VI - PUBLICATIONS
(in progressive chronological order)

VI.1 - MONOGRAPHS

1) The Reception of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ: A Milestone of
Western Metaphysical Thought, Brill, Leiden-Boston (“Islamic Philosophy, Theology and
Science”, vol. 63), 2006, xvii + 675 pp.
See: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=18&pid=24713

Presented at the meeting “JOURNEE INCIPIT 2007”, Centre Pierre Abélard, Université Paris-IV Sorbonne
(09/06/2007)
Reviews:
Th.-A. Druart, Journal of Islamic Studies, 19, 2008, pp. 104-106.
J. McGinnis, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 40, 2008, pp. 354-356.
M. Benedetto, “Avicenna e la risistemazione della Metafisica di Aristotele”, Quaestio, 7, 2007, pp. 541-546.
T. Mazzola Verza, Cadernos de História e Filosofia da Ciência, University of Campinas (Brasil):
www.cle.unicamp.br/cadernos/pdf/(7)Resenha(Tadeu%20Verza).pdf
C. D’Ancona, “Avicenna and the Metaphysics: Reflections about a New Approach”, International Journal of
the Classical Tradition, 15.3, 2008, pp. 457-465.
B. Gencer, Bilimname, 16, 2009, pp. 242-243.

2) The Arabic Sources of Albertus Magnus’ Commentary on the Metaphysics: Avicenna and
Averroes, in progress.

3) Storia della Filosofia Araba. La Metafisica, Carocci Editore, Roma, in progress.

4) Avicenna, Editrice La Scuola (“Profili”), in progress.

VI.2 - TRANSLATIONS

1) Libro della Guarigione, Le Cose Divine di Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā), a cura di A. Bertolacci,
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856 pp. (Italian annotated translation of the Ilāhiyyāt of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ, with
historico-doctrinal introduction, corrections of the Arabic text, indexes):
Hard-cover edition: Collezione “Classici della Filosofia”, UTET (Unione Tipografico-
Editrice Torinese), Turin 2007, 856 pp.
Paperback edition, Collezione “Classici del Pensiero” 53, UTET Libreria, Turin 2008; repr.
with e-book, De Agostini Libri, Novara 2015.

Reviews:
M. Benedetto, “Avicenna e la risistemazione della Metafisica di Aristotele”, Quaestio, 7, 2007, pp. 541-546.
A. Corbini, Rivista di Filosofia, 99.1, 2008, pp. 128-130.

VI.3 - CRITICAL EDITIONS

1) (D. C. Reisman co-author) “Thābit Ibn Qurra’s Concise Exposition of Aristotle’s
Metaphysics: Text, Translation and Commentary”, in Thābit Ibn Qurra. Sciences and
Philosophy in 9th Century Baghdad, ed. R. Rashed, M. Rashed, De Gruyter (“Scientia
Graeco-Arabica” 4), Berlin-New York 2009, pp. 715-776.

2) Averroes Latinus, Commentum Medium Super Librum Praedicamentorum Aristotelis.
Translatio Wilhelmo De Luna Adscripta, edidit R. Hissette, apparatu arabo-latino
supplementoque adnotationum instruxit A. Bertolacci, Lexica confecerunt R. Hissette et A.
Bertolacci, praesentatione auxit † L. J. Bataillon (= Averrois Opera. Series B. Averroes
latinus, XI), Peeters, Leuven 2010.
Presented at the Meeting “Journée Thomas d'Aquin” (SOCIÉTÉ THOMISTE. CENTRE D'ÉTUDES DU
SAULCHOIR) 3/12/2011 (Iacopo Costa)

3) Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā): The Metaphysics of the Šifāʾ. Facsimile Edition of MS Malek Library
(Tehran) 1085, Dated 509H/1115. With Introductions in English and Persian by Amos
Bertolacci and Gholamreza Dadkhah, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa (CA) 2017.

http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/avicennas-metaphysics-of-the-Shif%C4%81

VI.4 – ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

1) “«Subtilius speculando». Le citazioni della Philosophia Prima di Avicenna nel Commento
alla Metafisica di Alberto Magno”, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale,
9, 1998, pp. 261-339.

2) “Albert the Great, Metaph. IV, 1, 5: From the Refutatio to the Excusatio of Avicenna’s
Theory of Unity”, in Was ist Philosophie im Mittelalter? Qu’est-ce que la philosophie au
moyen âge? What is Philosophy in the Middle Ages? Akten des X. Internationalen Kongresses
für Mittelalterliche Philosophie der Société Internationale pour l'Etude de la Philosophie
Médiévale, 25. bis 30. August 1997 in Erfurt, ed. J. A. Aertsen, A. Speer, Miscellanea
Mediaevalia 26, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1998, pp. 881-887.

3) “Metafisica A, 5, 986 a 22-26 nell’Ilāhiyyāt del Kitāb al-Šifāʾ di Ibn Sīnā”, Documenti e
Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale, 10, 1999, pp. 205-231.
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4) “Le citazioni implicite testuali della Philosophia prima di Avicenna nel Commento alla
Metafisica di Alberto Magno: analisi tipologica”, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione
Filosofica Medievale, 12, 2001, pp. 179-274.

5) “From al-Kindī to al-Fārābī: Avicenna’s Progressive Knowledge of Aristotle’s
Metaphysics according to his Autobiography”, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 11.2, 2001,
pp. 257-295 (peer-reviewed).

Arabic translation: “Min al-Kindī ilā al-Fārābī: Maʿrifat Ibn Sīnā al-tadrīǧiyya li-Kitāb «Mā Baʿd al-
Ṭabīʾa» li-Arisṭū bi-ḥasab sīratihi al-ḏātiyya”, in Dirāsāt fī tārīḫ ʿilm al-kalām wa-al-falsafa, Išrāf al-
Duktūr Rušdī Rāšid, Markaz Dirāsāt al-Waḥda al-ʿArabiyya, Beirut 2013, pp. 367-411.

6) “La divisione della filosofia nel primo capitolo del Commento di Alberto Magno alla
Fisica: le fonti avicenniane”, in La Divisione della Filosofia e le sue Ragioni. Lettura di testi
medievali (VI-XIII secolo) (Atti del Settimo Convegno della Società Italiana per lo Studio del
Pensiero Medievale [S.I.S.P.M.], Assisi, 14-15 novembre 1997), ed. G. D’Onofrio, Avagliano
Editore, Cava de’ Tirreni (Salerno) 2001, pp. 137-155.

7) “The Reception of Avicenna’s ‘Philosophia Prima’ in Albert the Great’s Commentary on
the ‘Metaphysics’: The Case of the Doctrine of Unity”, in Albertus Magnus 1200-2000. Zum
Gedenken nach 800 Jahren: neue Zugänge, Aspekte und Perspektiven, ed. W. Senner et al.,
Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2001, pp. 67-78.

8) “The Structure of Metaphysical Science in the Ilāhiyyāt (Divine Science) of Avicenna’s
Kitāb al-Šifāʾ (Book of the Cure)”, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale,
13, 2002, pp. 1-69.

9) “The Doctrine of Material and Formal Causality in the Ilāhiyyāt of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-
Šifāʾ”, Quaestio, 2, 2002, pp. 125-154.

10) “Albert The Great and The Preface of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ”, in Avicenna and His
Heritage. Acts of the International Colloquium, Leuven-Louvain-la-Neuve September 8-
September 11, 1999, ed. J. Janssens, D. De Smet, Leuven University Press, Leuven 2002, pp.
131-152.

11) “Some Texts of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the Ilāhīyāt of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ”, in
Before and After Avicenna. Proceedings of the First Conference of the Avicenna Study
Group, ed. D. C. Reisman, A. H. al-Rahim, Brill, Leiden 2003, pp. 25-45.

12) “La ricezione del libro Γ della Metafisica nell’Ilāhiyyāt del Kitāb al-Šifāʾ di Avicenna”,
in Aristotele e i suoi esegeti neoplatonici. Logica e ontologia nelle interpretazioni greche e
arabe. Atti del convegno internazionale, Roma, 19-20 ottobre 2001, ed. V. Celluprica, C.
D’Ancona, R. Chiaradonna, Bibliopolis, Napoli, 2004, pp. 173-210.

13) “The Reception of Book Β (Beta) of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the Ilāhiyyāt of
Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ”, in Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval
Islam. Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Avicenna Study Group, ed. J. McGinnis
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with the assistance of D. C. Reisman, Brill, Leiden 2004, pp. 157-174.

14) “Biblioteche e centri di cultura nell’Oriente musulmano tra il X e l’XI secolo”, in Storia
della Filosofia nell’Islam Medievale, ed. C. D’Ancona Costa, Einaudi, Torino 2005, vol. II,
pp. 495-521.

15) “Il pensiero filosofico di Avicenna”, in Storia della Filosofia nell’Islam Medievale, ed.
C. D’Ancona Costa, Einaudi, Torino 2005, vol. II, pp. 522-626.

16) “Ammonius and al-Fārābī: The Sources of Avicenna’s Concept of Metaphysics”, in
Metaphysica, sapientia, scientia divina. Soggetto e statuto della filosofia prima nel Medioevo.
Atti del XIV Convegno della Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale
(S.I.S.P.M.), Bari, 9-12 giugno 2004, ed. P. Porro, M. Benedetto, Quaestio, 5, 2005, pp. 287-
305.

17) “On the Arabic Translations of Aristotle’s Metaphysics”, Arabic Sciences and
Philosophy, 15, 2005, pp. 241-275 (peer-reviewed).

18) “Introduzione”, “Nota biografica”, “Nota bibliografica”, “La presente edizione”, in Libro
della Guarigione, Le Cose Divine di Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā), a cura di A. Bertolacci, “Classici
della Filosofia”, UTET, “Classici del Pensiero” 53, UTET Libreria, Turin 2008; repr. with e-
book, De Agostini Libri, Novara 2015, pp. 7- 89; 91-92; 93-109; 111-130.

19) “Avicenna and Averroes on the Proof of God’s Existence and the Subject-Matter of
Metaphysics”, Medioevo, 32, 2007, pp. 61-97.

20) “On the Manuscripts of the Ilāhiyyāt of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ”, in Islamic Thought in
the Middle Ages. Studies in Text, Transmission and Translation, in Honour of Hans Daiber,
ed. A. Akasoy, W. Raven, Brill, Leiden 2008, pp. 59-75.

21) “«Necessary» as Primary Concept in Avicenna’s Metaphysics”, in Conoscenza e
contingenza nella tradizione aristotelica medievale, ed. G. Fioravanti, S. Perfetti, ETS, Pisa,
2008, pp. 31-50.

Discussed at the “Philosophical Review Club”, De Wulf-Mansion Center, KU Leuven, on November 14 2013
(Daniel De Haan)

22) “The Reception of Averroes’ Long Commentary on the Metaphysics in Latin Medieval
Philosophy until Albertus Magnus”, in Via Alberti. Texte – Quellen – Interpretationen, ed. L.
Honnefelder, H. Möhle, S. Bullido del Barrio (Subsidia Albertina, Vol. 2), Aschendorff
Verlag, Münster 2009, pp. 457-480.

23) “Different attitudes to Aristotle’s authority in the Arabic Medieval commentaries on the
Metaphysics”, Antiquorum Philosophia, 3, 2009 (“L’autorità degli antichi e il commentario
filosofico”), pp. 145-163.

24) “The ‘Ontologization’ of Logic. Metaphysical Themes in Avicenna’s Reworking of the
Organon”, in Methods and Methodologies. Aristotelian Logic East and West 500-1500, ed.
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M. Cameron, J. Marenbon, Brill Leiden-Boston 2011, pp. 27-51.

25) “A New Phase of the Reception of Aristotle in the Latin West: Albertus Magnus and His
Use of Arabic Sources in the Commentaries on Aristotle”, in Albertus Magnus und der
Ursprung der Universitätsidee. Die Begegnung der Wissenschaftskulturen im 13. Jahrhundert
und die Entdeckung des Konzepts der Bildung durch Wissenschaft, ed. L. Honnefelder, Berlin
University Press, Berlin 2011, pp. 259-276, 491-500.

26) “A Community of Translators: The Latin Medieval Versions of Avicenna’s Book of the
Cure”, in Communities of Learning: Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity in
Europe 1100-1500, ed. C. J. Mews, J. N. Crossley, Brepols, Turnhout 2011, pp. 37-54.

27) “On the Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics before Albertus Magnus: An
Attempt at Periodization”, in The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s
Metaphysics, ed. D. N. Hasse, A. Bertolacci, De Gruyter (“Scientia Graeco-Arabica” 7),
Berlin 2012, pp. 197-223.

28) “The Distinction of Essence and Existence in Avicenna’s Metaphysics: The Text and Its
Context”, in Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion: Studies in Honor of Dimitri
Gutas, ed. F. Opwis, D. C. Reisman, Brill, Leiden 2012, pp. 257-288.

29) “Introduction”, Oriens, 40.2, 2012 (“The Manuscript Tradition of Avicenna’s Kitab al-
Shifa’: The Current State of Research and Future Prospects”, Proceedings of the International
Colloquium, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 22-24 September 2010, ed. A. Bertolacci),
pp. 195-198.

30) “How Many Recensions of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ?”, Oriens, 40.2, 2012, pp. 275-303.

31) “A Hidden Hapax Legomenon in Avicenna’s Metaphysics: Considerations on the Use of
Anniyya and Ayyiyya in the Ilāhiyyāt of the Kitāb al-Šifā’”, in The Letter before the Spirit.
The Importance of Text Editions for the Study of the Reception of Aristotle, ed. A. M. I. van
Oppenraay, with the collaboration of R. Fontaine, Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2012 (Aristoteles
Semitico-Latinus 22), pp. 289-309.

32) “Albert’s Use of Avicenna and Islamic Philosophy”, in A Companion to Albert the Great.
Theology, Philosophy, and the Sciences, ed. I. M. Resnick, Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2013, pp.
601-611.

33) “Averroes against Avicenna on Human Spontaneous Generation: The Starting-Point of a
Lasting Debate”, in Renaissance Averroism and its Aftermath. Arabic Philosophy in Early
Modern Europe, ed. A. Akasoy, G. Giglioni, Springer, Dordrecht 2013, pp. 37-54.

34) “Albertus Magnus and “Avenzoreth” (Ibn Zurʿa, d. 1008): Legend or Reality?”, in The
Medieval Legends of Philosophers and Scholars. Proceedings of the International Colloquium
Les légendes des savants et philosophes (Moyen Âge et Renaissance), Tours, 16-18 septembre
2010, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la� Renaissance, ed. A. Paravicini Bagliani, J. P. Boudet,
Micrologus, 21, 2013, pp. 369-396.

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