• Il mondo visto da Sud e “La prima volta.” Una conversazione con Franco Cassano

    Il 13 aprile 2013 presso l’Università dell’ Oregon in Eugene si è svolto il trentatresimo convegno annuale dell’American Association of Italian Studies. Franco Cassano era in quell’occasione uno degli oratori delle sessioni plenarie ed è stato al centro di una tavola rotonda attorno al suo pensiero che ha avuto come protagonisti alcuni studiosi particolarmente impegnati…

  • Sardinia: the “Greatest Poem” and its Maritime Face

    Poetic geography and more than human humanism In my recent research I have introduced the ideas of poetic geography and “more than human” humanism as they emerge in the philosophy of Giambattista Vico. I have insisted on a new understanding of Vico’s humanism in contrast with the exclusive and reductive attention given by most scholars,…

  • Vico more than human humanism

    Abstract of a theoretical article on Giambattista Vico’s More than Human Humanism with a linl to the article.

  • Petrarch early manuscripts and incunabula in the OPOB

    Prof. Massimo Lollini and his collaborators completed the project “Petrarch Early Manuscripts and Incunabula in the Oregon Petrarch Open Book” in September 2013. In 2012 Lollini received an ACLS Digital innovation grant for the project “Petrarch’s Early Manuscripts and  Incunabula in the Oregon Petrarch Open Book,” an open source, open access initiative designed  for students, scholars, teachers, and…

  • Humanism in the Digital Age

    There has never been a time in which the human was not a work in progress (Sheehan). Humanism today must address not only the plurality of stages on the road towards the formation of ideas of humanity but also the unfinished nature of the human project. While this is not solely the result of a…