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I work on premodern philosophy and history of science. I am mainly interested in the interplay of philosophy and mathematics.

Currently, I am a a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at SPHERE-CNRS (France). To know more about my MSCA research project, visit the dedicated section MUCH.

Formerly, I was an FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven (De Wulf-Mansion Centre), where I investigated the way Euclidean geometry was used to argue for and against atomism in the late Middle Ages. More precisely, I retraced the main geometrical arguments within the debate about the nature of extension. Concerning the methodology, this research put together the history of philosophy and the history of texts, the critical edition of pseudo-Aristotle’s De lineis indivisibilibus is underway for the Aristoteles Latinus project.

To know more about my FWO research project, see Breaking the Lines. For my previous project on early medieval speculative arithmetic, see here.

Below you can find a concise survey of my professional appointments, education, teaching, and list of publications.

Professionnal appointments

  • (2024 – 2026) MSCA Fellowship (SPHERE-CNRS, Paris).
  • (2021 – 2024) FWO Junior Postdoc (De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven).
    See Breaking the Lines for the research project.
  • (2019 – 2020) Mellon Fellow (PIMS, Toronto).
    See Speculative Arithmetic for the research project.

Education

  • (2019 – 2023) Licence in Mediaeval Studies (LMS) at PIMS, Toronto.
  • (2015 – 2019) PhD in Philosophy at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ & the École Pratique des Hautes Études (double degree). My thesis concerns the Neopythagorean philosophical tradition of the Early Middle Ages. More specifically, I thoroughly examined a 10th-century text on philosophy and arithmetic written by Abbo of Fleury, namely, the Commentary on the Calculus of Victorius of Aquitaine.
    My dissertation is now a book which will be published by Routledge.
  • (2013 – 2015) MA at the University of Pisa.

Teaching

  • (2024) BA Medieval Philosophy Seminar at KU Leuven. Have a look at the syllabus here.
  • (2022) ‘Natural Philosophy: The Atomism Before the Scientific Turn’ at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’.
  • (2019 – present) I am honorary fellow at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. Since my dissertation, I have been assisting teaching within the course ‘History of Medieval Philosophy’ and ‘Teaching Philosophy’ at the same university.

Societies

  • (Jan. 2022 – May 2022) Secretary General of SIEPM (Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale).
  • (2022 – present) Coordinator of the commission ‘Mathematization of Philosophical Thought’ of SOFIME (Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval).
  • (2023 – present) Member of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.

Publications

Books as author and editor

  • [forthcoming] C. V. Crialesi, C. Hoffstetter, and M. Sorokina (eds.), Quid sit numerus. Theories and Conceptualizations of Numbers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Brepols.
  • [forthcoming] N. Bobovnik, C. V. Crialesi, and L. Devriese (eds.), 1973-2023: Celebrating Half A Century of Aristoteles Latinus in Leuven, Leuven University Press.
  • (2025) Mathematics and Philosophy at the Turn of the First Millennium. Abbo of Fleury on Calculus, London: Routledge.
  • (2025) C. V. Crialesi (ed.), Premodern Mathematical Thought. The Latin Discussion (13th-16th Century), Leiden: Brill.

Articles and book chapters

  • [forthcoming] Divergent Paths to Prime Matter at Chartres: Physical and Metaphysical Approaches, in N. Polloni (ed.), A Philosophical History of Prime Matter, vol. 1, Cambridge: CUP.
  • [forthcoming] Numbers in Medieval Speculative Arithmetic, in C. V. Crialesi, C. Hoffstetter, and M. Sorokina (eds.), Quid sit numerus. Theories and Conceptualizations of Numbers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Turnhout: Brepols.
  • (forthcoming 2025) Conceiving Mathematical Terms and Propositions in the 14th Century, in C. V. Crialesi (ed.), Premodern Mathematical Thought. The Latin Discussion (13th-16th Century), Leiden: Brill.
  • (2024) A Taxonomy of Divisibilism and Gregory of Rimini’s Place, «British Journal for the History of Philosophy».
  • (2023) [and R. Saccenti] De lineis indivisibilibus (entry), in L. Castaldi (ed.), Mediaeval Latin Texts and their Transmission TE.TRA. 8, Florence: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 528-531.
  • (2023) Les « raisons » des mathématiques : Aspects de la ratio dans la pensée mathématique médiévale, in D. Poirel (ed.), La raison au Moyen Âge, Paris: Vrin.
  • (2023) Albert the Great’s and Roger Bacon Against Indivisibilism: Accounts of Mathematics Compared, «Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales», 90/2: 291-318.
  • (2023) Absolute Spatial Differences: Grosseteste Reading of Aristotle’s On the Heavens, «Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval» 30/1: 107-126.
  • (2021) Excerptiuncula: A Short Introduction to Boethius’ De arithmetica of the Early Middle Ages, «Journal of Medieval Latin» 31: 265-287.
  • (2019) Un approccio matematizzante nell’analisi della realtà naturale: l’Explanatio in Calculo Victorii di Abbone di Fleury, in O. Grassi and G. Catapano (eds.), Rappresentazioni della natura nel Medioevo, Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 41-58.
  • (2016) Le opere dei sei giorni: aritmetica ed esegesi secundum physicam in Teodorico di Chartres, «Medioevo. Rivista di storia della filosofia medievale» 41: 67–102.

Reviews

  • (2024) in «Bulletin de philosophie du Moyen Âge» 25: A. Robert, Le monde mathématique. Marco Trevisano et la philosophie dans la Venise du Trecento, Paris: Éditions du Cerf 2023.
  • (2024) in «Historia Mathematica» 67: D. Di Liscia and E. D. Sylla (eds.) with the collaboration of P. J.J.M. Bakker, Quantifying Aristotle: The Impact, Spread and Decline of the Calculatores Tradition, Brill: Leiden 2022.
  • (2022) in «Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique»: I. Lystopad, Un platonisme original au XIIe siècle. Métaphysique pluraliste et théologie trinitaire dans le “De unitate et pluralitate creaturarum” d’Achard de Saint-Victor, Turnhout: Brepols 2021.
  • (2020) in «Revista Española de Filosofia Medieval» 28: C. Lévy – J.-B. Guillaumin (eds.), Plato latinus. Aspects de la transmission de Platon en latin dans l’Antiquité, Turnhout: Brepols, 2018.
  • (2019) in «Studi Medievali III Serie» 60, 2: C. Panti – N. Polloni (eds.), Vedere nell’ombra. Studi su natura, spiritualità e scienze operative o erti a Michela Pereira, Firenze: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2017.
  • (2019) in «Studi Medievali III Serie», 60, 2: L. Bianchi – O. Grassi – C. Panti (eds.), Edizioni, traduzioni e tradizioni filosofiche (Secoli XII-XVI). Studi per Pietro B. Rossi, Canterano: Aracne, 2018, 2 vols.