Curriculum vitae NICOLA POLLONI

Full name: Nicola Polloni ORCID: 0000-0001-5543-8032 Date of Birth: 15 October 1984 RESEARCHER ID: O-6171-2016 Born: Siena, Italy Email: [email protected] Nationality: Italian Website: potestas-essendi.com

Research Interests My research is centred on the history natural philosophy and ontology (namely, theory of matter), and the cross-cultural transmission of philosophical and scientific knowledge during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.

Current Appointment 2016- Junior Research Fellow, Durham University (UK). Department of History/Institute of Advanced Studies, Durham University. DIFeREns2 and European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 609412. Research Project: ‘The of Grosseteste and Bacon: Between Philosophy and Science.’ Implementation: July 2016 to June 2018.

Previous Appointments 2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Università di Pavia (IT). Research grant sponsored by Chimaera Foundation. Research Project: ‘La scuola di traduttori di Toledo, Gundisalvi e l'influenza avicenniana sul pensiero latino tra XII e XIII secolo.’ Implementation: January to June 2016.

Academic Qualifications 2015 Ph.D. in Philosophy Università di Pavia (IT), Department of Humanities. International Cotutelle. Dissertation: ‘Ontologie divergenti: uno studio sul sincretismo metafisico di Gundisalvi.’ Supervisors: Alexander Fidora and Chiara Crisciani. Thesis defence: November 9, 2015. Final note: Excellent.

2015 Ph.D. in Cultures in Contact in the Mediterrenean (Medieval Philology) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES), Department of Ancient and Medieval Studies. International Cotutelle. Dissertation: ‘Ontologie divergenti: uno studio sul sincretismo metafisico di Gundisalvi.’ Supervisors: Alexander Fidora and Chiara Crisciani. Thesis defence: November 9, 2015. Final note: Excellent cum laude.

2012 MA in Philosophy Università di Siena (IT). Thesis: ‘Il De processione mundi di Gundissalinus: un’ontologia dell’essere possibile.’ Supervisor: Michela Pereira. Thesis defence: April 18, 2012. Final note: 110/110 cum laude.

Grants and Honours 2018-2020 Humboldt Stiftung Fellowship Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (DE). Research Project: ‘Knowing the Shadow: Ontology and of Matter in the Thirteenth Century.’ Supervisor: Dominik Perler. NB: implementation of this project will be coincident with my next appointment starting in September 2018.

2015 SIEPM Fellowship at Notre Dame University of Notre Dame (USA), Feb-May 2015. Competitive fellowship. Research Project: ‘Gundissalinus’ Reception of Universal Hylomorphism and Its Influence in the 13th Century.’ Supervisor: Kent Emery.

2014- Honorary Fellow in Università di Pavia (IT), Honorary Fellowship at the Department of Humanities.

2012-2015 Doctoral Grant Università di Pavia (IT). Competitive grant. Admission rate in 2012: 2,24%.

Communication and Outreach 2017- Executive Editor, Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval.

2016- Communication Manager, Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval (SOFIME).

2013 Ph.D. Student Representative, Università di Pavia (IT), Department of Humanities Council.

2011 Editorial Collaborator, Medioevo Latino/MEL, Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (SISMEL). Since 2011.

2008-2010 Student Representative, Università di Siena (IT), Council of the School of Letter and Philosophy, 2008-2010.

Organization of Conferences and Panels 2017 Panel: Pre-Modern Experiences and the Limits of Science. 2017 Meeting of the Society. Toronto, Ontario (Canada), 9-12 November 2017.

2017 International conference: Translating Experience: Medieval Encounters with , Self, and God. Durham University, Durham (UK), 4-6 June 2017. Organisers: K. Krause and N. Polloni.

2016 International conference: Da Stagira a Parigi: prospettive aristoteliche tra Antichità e Medioevo. Università di Pavia, Pavia (IT), 30-31 May 2016. Organisers: C. Blengini, S. Gastaldi, N. Polloni, and C. Zizza.

2014 International conference: Idee, testi e autori arabi ed ebraici e la loro ricezione latina. Università di Pavia, Pavia (IT), 3-4 December 2014.

2013 Conference: Pensare a Weimar. Figure del pensiero tedesco nella Germania della crisi. Università di Pavia (IT), 10-12 December 2013. Organisers: L. De Giovanni and N. Polloni.

Research Teams and Collaborations 2016- The Ordered Universe AHRC-funded Research Project on Grosseteste’s scientific though based at Durham and Oxford (UK).

2016- Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group of researchers on the influence of Arabic philosophy on medieval philosophy.

2 2016- Unity and Plurality of the Logos in the World. Explicatio and ratio naturae in 4th-14th centuries Medieval Hermeneutics (LOGOS) Spanish Research Project based at Universidad de Navarra (ES). Ministerio de Economía Competitividad, nº ref.: FFI2015-63947-P.

2016- Rogerius Bacon: The Philosopher’s Workshop International Research Group on based at the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, Florence (IT).

Membership of Learned Societies 1. Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM), since 2013. 2. History of Science Society (HSS), since 2017. 3. Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval (SOFIME), since 2012. 4. Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale (SISPM), since 2013. 5. Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (SMRP), since 2015. 6. British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), since 2017. 7. American Cusanus Society (ACS), since 2017.

Teaching Experience 2018 Co-Convenor, Level 4 (MA) module, The Liberal Arts, Durham University, Department of History. Responsibilities included module design, teaching preparation, leading seminars, guiding and mentoring student projects and essays, and evaluation.

2018 Lecturer, The Ordered Universe, Schools Outreach and Access Programme for the OxNet Initiative, Durham University, University of Oxford, University of Sunderland, 2018. Responsibility for lecture and seminar teaching for 16-17 years old university applicants, as part of a national UK programme; preparation of teaching materials, delivery and assessment.

2017 Lecturer, Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ I.W.G. Research Seminar, The Penetration of Arabic Philosophy into the Latin Philosophical Tradition, Jan-April 2017 (recordings available online ).

2016 Lecturer, Università di Pavia, MA seminar, Il Mediterraneo come spazio di disseminazione filosofica, Spring semester 2016. Responsibility for lecture and seminar teaching.

2015-2016 Co-Lecturer, Università di Pavia, MA module, History of Sciences. Responsibilities included lecture and seminar teaching, guiding and mentoring students, and evaluation.

2015 Co-Supervisor, BA Thesis, Università di Pavia (IT), Dante, Monarchia I, II-IV: una teoria politica dell'intelletto. Thesis defended on 25 February 2016.

2014 Lecturer, Università di Pavia, BA seminar, Neoplatonismi e aristotelismi medievali: prospettive e problemi. Responsibility for lecture and seminar teaching

2013-2015 Co-Lecturer, Università di Pavia, BA module, History of Medieval Philosophy Responsibilities included lecture and seminar teaching, guiding and mentoring students, and evaluation.

3 Publications A. Books 1. Glimpses of the Invisible: Doctrines and Sources of Dominicus Gundissalinus’s Metaphysics. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, forthcoming. 2. Domingo Gundisalvo. Una introducción. Madrid: Editorial Sindéresis, 2017. ISBN: 978-84-16262- 34-2. 3. Domingo Gundisalvo, traductor y filósofo. Madrid: Fundación Ignacio Larramendi, 2013. DOI: 10.18558/FIL033. 4. The Treatise ‘On the Peregrinations of the Soul in the Afterlife’. Pre-contract with Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations, Peeters, forthcoming.

B. Edited Volumes 1. Appropriation, Interpretation and Criticism: Philosophical and Theological Exchanges Between the Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Intellectual Traditions. Edited by A. Fidora and N. Polloni. Barcelona - Roma: FIDEM, 2017. ISBN: 978-2-503-57744-9. 2. : Sources, Doctrines, and Influence on Medieval Philosophy, Edited by N. Polloni, M. Benedetto and F. Dal Bo. Preliminary agreement with Brepols, forthcoming.

C. Peer-Reviewed Papers 1. ‘The Toledan Translation Movement and Gundissalinus: Some Remarks on His Activity and Presence in Castile.’ In Y. Beale-Rivaya and J. Busic (eds.), Reconsidering the Canons. New Readings of Medieval Toledo (ca. 711-1517). Brill, forthcoming. 2. ‘Gundissalinus and : Some Remarks on an Intricate Philosophical Connection.’ Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 28 (2017): 515-552. 3. ‘Toledan Ontologies: Gundissalinus, Ibn Daud, and the Problems of Gabirolian Hylomorphism.’ In A. Fidora and N. Polloni (eds.), Appropriation, Interpretation and Criticism: Philosophical and Theological Exchanges Between the Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Intellectual Traditions. Barcelona - Roma: FIDEM, 2017, 19-49. 4. ‘ in Toledo: Gundissalinus, the Arabs, and Gerard of Cremona's Translations.’ In Ch. Burnett and P. Mantas (eds.), ‘Ex Oriente Lux’. Translating Words, Scripts and Styles in the Medieval Mediterranean World. Arabica Veritas, IV, Córdoba: UCOPress - London: The Warburg Institute, 2016, 147-185. 5. ‘Gundissalinus on Necessary Being: Textual and Doctrinal Alterations in the Exposition of Avicenna’s Metaphysics.’ Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 26/1 (2016): 129-160. 6. ‘Gundissalinus's Application of al-Farabi's Metaphysical Programme. A Case of Epistemological Transfer.’ Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge 1 (2016): 69-106. 7. ‘ and Gundissalinus on Spiritual Substance: The Problem of Hylomorphic Composition.’ Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 57 (2015): 35-57. 8. ‘Elementi per una biografia di Dominicus Gundisalvi.’ Archives d’Histoire Doctrinale et Littèraire du Moyen Âge 82 (2015): 7-22. 9. ‘Natura vero assimilatur quaternario: numerologia e neoplatonismo nel De processione mundi di Dominicus Gundissalinus.’ In J. L. Fuertes Herreros and Á. Poncela González (eds.), De Natura. La naturaleza en la Edad Media. Vol. 2. Ribeirão: Húmus, 2015, pp. 679-688. 10. ‘Il De processione mundi di Gundissalinus: prospettive per un’analisi genetico-dottrinale.’ Annali di Studi Umanistici 1 (2013): 25-38.

Major Invited Presentations and Lectures 1. ‘Pass the Buck, Stop the Book. Arabic Philosophy in Latin Europe Before .’ Conference: Crossing Lands. Spreading knowledge in the Near East and the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to Middle Ages, Cordoba (Spain), 14 March 2018. 2. ‘Chaos in Toledo: Gundissalinus, Daniel of Morley, and the Chartrean Tradition.’ Conference: Scire naturam: filosofia e ciências, da antiguidade ao início da modernidade. Porto (PT), 26- 28/02/2018.

4 3. ‘Domingo Gundisalvo y Daniel de Morley acerca del establecimiento y conservación de la causalidad del universo.’ Colloquium: Explicatio y ratio naturae. Comprensiones medievales sobre el origen del universo. Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona (ES), 16/01/2018. 4. ‘Traducción y circulación del conocimiento árabe a finales del siglo XII: unas notas introductorias.’ Conference: Oriente próximo y la cuenca del Mediterráneo. Fe, creencia y transmisión textual entre lo canónico y lo apócrifo. Universidad de Cordoba (ES), 30/11/2017. 5. ‘Matter of Change: Philosophical Claims and Religious Concerns on the Substrate.’ Colloquium: Pre-Modern Sciences and Religions, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA, USA), 6/11/2017. 6. ‘Effectus, affectus, and defectus: and Causation of the Substrate.’ Conference: Aspectus and Affectus: , Understanding and Feeling. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (USA), 30/03-1/04/2017 7. ‘La ciencia de “los otros”: peculiares asimilaciones de teorías árabes por la tradición filosófica latina (1150-1210).’ Lecture, University of Cordoba, Cordoba (ES), 26/01/2017. 8. ‘Contrasting Perspectives: The Latins, the Arabs, and the Rise of a New Approach to Philosophy.’ Colloquium: Filosofia Medieval: em curso e em toda a extensão. Universidade de Oporto, Porto (PT), 12-13/01/2017. 9. ‘Dominicus Gundissalinus and the Renovation of Medieval Philosophy.’ Conference: Translation and Philosophy: Gundissalinus and Ibn Daud in 12th Century Spain. University of South Carolina, Columbia (SC, USA), 11/11/2016. 10. ‘Gundissalinus, Avicenna, and the Road to Paris.’ Lecture, Marquette University, Milwaukee (WI, USA), 2/11/2016. 11. ‘Translation and Appropriation: Necromancy, Astrology, .’ Lecture, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame (IN, USA), 31/10/2016.

Further Presentations in Congresses and Conferences 1. ‘Expanding Matter: Cosmologies of Light in Artephius and Grosseteste.’ 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Session: Structures of Order in Medieval Science I: Experience and Authorities, Kalamazoo (MI, USA), 10-13 May 2018. 2. ‘Sources of Light: Remarks on the Grosseteste/Avicebron Connection.’ Conference: Science Imagination and Wonder – Robert Grosseteste and His Legacy, University of Oxford (UK), 3-6 April 2018. 3. ‘A Matter of Possibility: Nicolaus Cusanus, Gundissalinus, and Thierry of Chartres on the Material Substrate.’ 2018 Congress of the Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans, 22-24 March 2018. 4. ‘Accordance and Strife: Encounters with Modernity at the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century.’ 2017 Conference of the American Catholic Philosophical Association: Philosophy, Faith and Modernity, Dallas (TX), 16-19 November 2017. 5. ‘Sciences of Matter? Knowledge of the Material Substrate in the two Bacons.’ 2017 Meeting of the History of Science Society, Toronto (ON), 9-12 November 2017. 6. ‘“Indeed, the soul has not been made by the first Maker”: Creation, Imitation, and Matter.’ Conference: Creation and Artifice, The Warburg Institute, London (UK), 1-2 June 2017. 7. ‘I numeri della natura: testimonianze numerologiche della completezza del creato in Gundisalvi e Grossatesta.’ Conference: Rappresentazioni della natura nel Medioevo, SISPM/CIRFIM, Università di Padova, Padova (IT), 24-27 May 2017. 8. ‘Gundisalvo, Guillermo de Auvernia, y el problema de atribución del “De immortalitate animae”.’ VII Congreso Internacional Iberoamericano de la Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval: De relatione, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona (ES), 14-16 November 2016. 9. ‘Aristotele a Toledo.’ Conference: Da Stagira a Parigi: prospettive aristoteliche tra Antichità e Medioevo, Università di Pavia, Pavia (IT), 30-31 May 2016. 10. ‘Entre Toledo, Segovia y Chartres: convergencias doctrinales en la discusión metafísica de Domingo Gundisalvo.’ III Encuentro Internacional de Filosofia Medieval: Espacios de la filosofía medieval: Córdoba, Toledo y Paris, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid (ES), 9 March 2016.

5 11. ‘Possibilità materiali e necessità formali: letture gundissaliniane di Ibn Sina, Ibn Gabirol e Ibn Daud.’ Conference: Idee, testi e autori arabi ed ebraici e la loro ricezione latina, Università di Pavia, Pavia (IT), 3-4 December 2014. 12. ‘Les sources néoplatoniciennes arabes de la cosmologie de Gundissalinus.’ Workshop: Métaphysique et cosmologie médiévales. Héritages philosophiques du Livres des causes, Dijon (FR), 16 September 2014. 13. ‘Toledo, crocevia di culture: il caso del movimento di traduzione.’ Conference: Cantieri d’Autunno 2013, Università di Pavia, Pavia (IT), 13-16 October 2013. 14. ‘Gundissalinus and Avicenna: Some Remarks on the Textual Presence of Avicennian “Metaphysica” in the “De Processione Mundi” in Comparison to Its First Latin Translation.’ Workshop: 12th- and 13th-Century Attempts to Translate Muslim and Jewish Texts into Latin, Ruhr- Universität Bochum, Bochum (DE), 19 March 2013. 15. ‘“Natura vero assimilatur quaternario”: alcune osservazioni sulla numerologia del De processione mundi di Gundissalinus.’ VI Congreso Internacional Iberoamericano de la Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval: De natura, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca (ES).

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