Tommaso Ghezzani deals with the history of Renaissance philosophy, the history of aesthetics and the history of science, with particular attention to the intersection between philosophical, literary and visual cultures. He is currently working on a doctoral project, on the relationship between the art of memory, the sciences and pansophy in the European Renaissance, at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, where he graduated (BA+MA), and at the Université de Genève (Institut Éthique Histoire Humanités). He is also a Didactic Assistant in the History of Philosophy at the University of Pisa, and Santorio Fellow (2023) of Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (Domus Comeliana – Pisa). From 2024 he will be a Visiting PhD Researcher and Adjunct Instructor of Italian at New York University (Department of Italian Studies).
His research project, entitled «The Theatres of the World: Memory and Inventio from Giulio Camillo to Jean Bodin and Robert Fludd», is carried out under the supervision of prof. Nicola Panichi (SNS), prof. Lorenzo Bartalesi (SNS) and prof. Andrea Carlino (iEH2). The aim of the project is to inquire into the life of an intellectual object between the 1500s and 1600s: the theatre of the world, i.e., a kind of text structured like a theatre (or similar architectonic forms) with mnemonic and universal implications. Specifically, it will map the parable of these complex visual encyclopedias which, inaugurated by Giulio Camillo in a platonic-hermetic context on a mnemotechnical basis, encountered notable transdisciplinary theoretical transformations and verbal-figurative translations throughout Europe.
FIELDS OF RESEARCH
- Renaissance Philosophy and Literature
- Art of Memory
- Love Treatises
- Relationship between Magic and Science during the Renaissance
- History of Medicine and Natural Philosophy
- History of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art