Francesco Becchi

Biography

Francesco Becchi graduated in 1972 with the highest grades and praise in "Greek Literature" at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Florence, discussing with Prof. Adelmo Barigazzi, holder of the Chair of "Greek Literature", a Thesis on Plutarch's moral virtues . Named in 1972 as a tutor at the Chair of "Greek Language and Civilization" at the Faculty of Magisterium of the University of Florence, the following year he was the winner of a scholarship for didactic and scientific training at the Chair of "Greek Literature" Of the then Institute of Classical Philosophy "G.Pasquali" of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Florence. Having been the contractor's role in 1975, it was set up in 1980 as a confirmed university researcher, overcoming the eligibility for the "Greek Language and Literature" sector. Since then he has continuously served as a researcher confirmed earlier by the Latino Institute of the Faculty of Magisterium of the University of Florence, where he has conducted Greek language and syntax exercises for the Chair of "Greek Language and Civilization" Of which he also held the supplement in AI. 1995-1996, and subsequently at the Department of Sciences of Ancientity "G. Pasquali" of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Florence, where he has always worked with the Chair of "Greek Literature" also relying on 'Teaching of "History of Greek Language". In 2003 he passed the competition of associate professor of Greek Literature (though because of the ministerial blockade of the turn over, He was able to take service only on February 1, 2005), was called by the University of Florence, where at the Dpt. Of Science of Ancientity "G. Pasquali "continued the teaching of" History of the Greek language ". In 2008 he got the confirmation in the role and from the aa. 2008-2009 covers the teaching of "Greek Language" (for the historical address) and "Greek Literature" (for the philosophical address). Under the guidance of prof. Barigazzi first and prof. Casanova then devoted mainly to the study of Plutarch Ethics, starting with De moral virtues , a theoretical script of antistatic controversy, belonging to philosophical booklets of ethical argument. In pointing out the organicness of this script, which plays an important role in the correct understanding of the fundamental link-reason-passion that is at the basis of both Morales and Vitae , has proposed an innovative interpretation in the light of coherent texts, overtaking that abstract And astral confrontation with Plato's Dialogues on the one hand and Aristotle's Ethics on the other. The results of these studies, set out in a series of articles, have also allowed, thanks to the encouragement of the then Director of the Architectural Archives of Berlin, prof. Paul Moraux, (see Aristotelismus bei den Griechen II, Berlin-New York 1984, 272, 163), the publication of the critical edition with the translation and commentary of the De moral virtues ("Ethical Virtue") in "Corpus Plutarchi Moralium ". Aware that the period in which Plutarch lived was a time of transition that united the great philosophers of the classical and Hellenistic period to the Neoplatonic movement, and convinced of the strong philosophical eclecticism and syncretism that characterizes much of the production of this period, he felt it was necessary to widen The horizons of study studies of texts that are representative of posterior aristotelianism and medioplatonism. From here are born the works on the first commentator of ' EN Aristotle, Aspasius, the complex author philosophical personality of DidaskalikÓs , the medioplatonico Alcinoo (Albino), to get to the writings of pseudo-Pythagorean ethic. At the same time, he has not neglected to study other aspects of plutarchic thinking, always presenting both the Moral and the Vitae , such as politics, religion, psychology, biopsychology and zoopsicology, themes on which he held communications and reports on occasion (Pisa, Salerno, Pavia, Florence) and international (Madrid, Granada, Malaga, León, Coimbra, Paris, Lille, Leuven). He also had an opportunity to present the results of biopsychology and zoopsychology studies at the University of Granada, Malaga and Paris at the Institut d'Études Grecques of the Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV) . The research activity carried out in recent years has mainly, albeit not exclusively, the Textüberlieferung of Plutarch Morals and the ethical-philosophical thought of Cheronea's intellectual. The main purpose was the publication of a new critical edition with extensive introduction, translation and commentary on Peri; Tuvchı of Plutarch, based on a systematic reconnection of all witnesses of the manuscript tradition useful to the textus constitution , including the two Moscow codes which are the basis of the reviewplanudea. In fact, in spite of the great editorial work carried out in the twentieth century, the apparatus of critical editions, including that of the Teubner edition, from which all others depend, is far from reliable, given the high number of errors they present, some Of which they are also visible and pedissequely handed down from one issue to another. Through a recollection of all the helpful witnesses of De Fortuna's traditionThe Greek text has been laid down with its critical apparatus, with the intention of making mistakes and inaccuracies present in modern editions. The Greek text is accompanied by a translation into the Italian side. The critical edition is accompanied by an introduction devoted to the manuscript tradition, the history of the notion of tuvch in its historical development and the interpretation of the script, which over the centuries has been subjected to opposing evaluations and interpretations by scholars who They have now judged it as philosophical, now it is no different from the principles of Aristotelian ethics. The Greek text and the Italian translation follow a broad commentary, which addresses all the textual, philological, historical-philosophical problems related to the interpretation of the script.History of a name , cit.), With which the Cheronea intellectual argues, and study the value and role played by the notion of tuvch within Moralia and Vitae (see F. Becchi, The notion of tuvch In Plutarco , cit.), But also and above all place this plutarcheo brochure within the Moralia and connect it with works of other intellectuals more or less consistent with Plutarch, such as, for example, Alexander of Afrodisia, committed to defending the same values ​​from the attacks of modern schools of thought. Some of the results achieved have been the subject of communications held at Plutarch's International Conferences. Today this new edition is being printed at the Casa Editrice D'Auria in Naples in Corpus Plutarchi Moralium. At the same publisher in the "Plutarchea Research Tools" series, which has been partnering with Corpus Plutarch Moralium for years, a study was published ( The Press Issues of Plutarch's "Fortune" , "Tools for Plutarch Research" VII, Napoli 2008), which was conducted in parallel with the critical edition of De Fortuna, Traces the story of the press editions of this plutarcheo script from Edito Aldina of 1509, curated by Demetrio Ducas: a study that in highlighting the distinctive features of each edition and the relationships between the various editions has allowed to trace a A fairly satisfactory picture of the vicissitudes of a Moral text in the printing age. Some of the results of this work were anticipated in a communication entitled "The Fortune of Plutarch in Press Editions", held in 2006 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid on the occasion of the V encuentro de la Red tematica de Plutarco: "Ecos de Plutarch in Europe ". To complete the picture of the important function that not only Vitae but also iMoral of Plutarch had during the Humanism and the Renaissance in Italy and in Europe a study of Latin translations of the Morals in the 13th and 16th centuries, which will be published by the University of Salerno in the Acts of a Latin Translation Conference Of the Morals .

Research Interest

Arts and Philosophy