Biography

Marco Sgarbi’s work focuses on Kant, Aristotelianism, and intellectual history. He is author of La Kritik der reinen Vernunft nel contesto della tradizione logica aristotelica (Hildesheim, 2010);Logica e metafisica nel Kant precritico (Frankfurt, 2010); Immanuel Kant, Critica del Juicio (Madrid, 2011); Kant on Spontaneity (London, 2012), and The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism (Dordrecht, 2012). He was a Frances A. Yates Short-Term Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute (London), and a post-doctoral research fellow at the Università di Verona, Herzog August Bibliothek of Wolfenbüttel (Fritz Thyssen-Stipendiat), the Accademia dei Lincei and at the British Academy.

Project Summary

The project aims to reconstruct the origin of Italian vernacular logic in the Renaissance, considering the works of Benedetto Varchi (1542), Antonio Tridapale (1547), Nicolò Massa (1549), Alessandro Piccolomini (1551), Sebastiano Erizzo (1554), Tito Giovanni Scandianese (1563), Ludovico Dolce (1565), Orazio Toscanella (1567) and Antonio Persio (1576).