Nicola Polloni
CoFund Junior Research Fellow
Department of History
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Nicola Polloni done BA and MA in Philosophy at the University of Siena, where I had the fortune to be introduced by brilliant scholars to some of the never-ending problems of Medieval philosophy. After a first period of study of Augustine’s doctrine of divine grace (BA thesis), he moved on to a quite more peculiar Medieval figure: Dominicus Gundissalinus, philosopher and translator from Arabic into Latin in Toledo during the 12th century. He worked on Gundissalinus’ De processione mundi (a metaphysical and cosmological treatise) and its Arabic sources during my MA.
Research Interest
Research Interests include Aristotle, Avicennism, English Medieval Philosophy, Epistemology, Gundissalinus, Islamic Philosophy, Jewish Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Medieval Theology, Medieval Translation Movements, Metaphysics, Ontology and Solomon Ibn Gabirol.
Publications
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Polloni, Nicola (2013). Il De processione mundi di Gundissalinus: prospettive per un’analisi genetico-dottrinale. Annali di Studi Umanistici 1: 25-38.
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Polloni, Nicola (2015). Thierry of Chartres and Gundissalinus on Spiritual Substance: The Problem of Hylomorphic Composition. Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 57: 35-57.
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Polloni, Nicola (2015). Elementi per una biografia di Dominicus Gundisalvi. Archives d’Histoire Doctrinale et Littèraire du Moyen Âge 82: 7-22.
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Polloni, Nicola (2016). Gundissalinuss Application of al-FÄrÄbis Metaphysical Programme. A Case of Epistemological Transfer. Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge 1: 69-106.
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Polloni, Nicola (2016). Gundissalinus on Necessary Being: Textual and Doctrinal Alterations in the Exposition of Avicenna’s Metaphysics. Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 26(1): 129-160.
