Duration of stay:
Oct. 12th – Dec. 12th, 2015
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1972
Studies in Philosophy, research stays and guest lectures in Pisa, New York and Lucca
«Professore Associato» of Aesthetics and Aesthetics of Fine Arts at Accademia di Brera (Milan)
Research project
Winckelmanns theory of the «sensation of the beautiful» within the context of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment
Research specializations
Aesthetics and theory of art in the 18th century
Philosophy of the Enlightenment in Germany and France
History of art historiography from the late 17th to the early 19th century
Publications (a selection)
Monographies
Linguaggio e poesia in Moses Mendelssohn. Pisa 2002
L’estetica musicale dell’Illuminismo tedesco. Palermo 2000.
Edited books
J.J. Winckelmann. Annotazioni sulla storia dell’arte dell’antichità. Translation into Italian, introduction and commentary. Rome [forthcoming]
M. Mendelssohn. Scritti di estetica [Über die Empfindungen; Rhapsodie, oder Zusätze zu den Briefen über die Empfindungen; Über die Hauptgrundsätze der schönen Künste und Wissenschaften; Über das Erhabene und das Naive in den schönen Wissenschaften]. Translation into Italian, introduction and commentary. Palermo 2004
Articles
Villes en ruine au XVIIIe siècle. Le goût des ruines entre expérience et imagination. In: Villes en ruine: images, mémoires, métamorphoses. Ed. by M. Preti and S. Settis. Paris 2015, p. 234-257
La musique, cette grande absente: le système des arts dans le Laocoon de Lessing. In: La musique façe au système des beaux-arts, ou les vicissitudes de l’imitation (1690-1803). Ed. by M.-P. Martin and C. Savettieri. Paris 2014, p. 299-314
Lo studio della follia negli atti dell’Accademia delle Scienze di Berlino (1759-1767). In: Filosofia e Follia. Percorsi tra il XVI e XVIII secolo. Ed. by S. Feloj and M. Giargia. Milan 2013, p. 97-126
Winckelmann et Longin. La rhéthorique du sublime et les styles de l’art grec. In: L’idée du style dans l’historiographie artistique. Variantes nationales et transmissions. Ed. by S. Frommel and A. Brucculeri. Rome 2012, p. 217-230
Die populäre Wolff-Rezeption am Beispiel von Moses Mendelssohns Besprechungen in Nicolais Zeitschriften. In: Christian Wolff und die Europäische Aufklärung. Ed. by J. Stolzenberg and O.-P. Rudolph. Hildesheim, Zürich and New York 2010, p. 126-145