Professor Fosca Mariani Zini
Fosca Mariani Zini is Full Professor of Philosophy at University François Rabelais of Tours. She studied philosophy in Italy and France. She was fellow of Warburg Institute, Ecole française de Rome, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung and of the Excellent Cluster Topoi. FU-HU, Berlin. She was visiting professor at the several universities. Her research focuses on Late Antiquity, especially on the philosophy in Rome (Cicero, Seneca), as well as on medieval et humanistic philosophy and literature. She was PI of ANR project : Anthrame. Les pouvoir de l’âme. Anthropologie de l’expérience : XIV-XVI siècles (2021-2025).
Select publications
- La calomnie. Un philosophème humaniste. Pour une préhistoire de l’herméneutique, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2015
- La pensée de Ficin. Itinéraires néoplatoniciens, Paris, Vrin 2014
- L’économie des passions. Essai sur le “Décaméron” de Boccace, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion 2012
Editing:
- The Legacy of Aristotelian Enthymeme. Proof and Belief in Middle Age and in the Renaissance, London, Bloomsbury, 2023
- The Meaning of Something. Rethinking the Logic and the Unity of Metaphysics, Berlin et alii,Springer, 2022
- (with Paola Müller) Ridere e piangere fra Medioevo e Rinascimento La parola ai filosofi, Milano, Mimesis 2025
- (with Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin) La Male Bouche. Les paroles blessantes dans l’Europe du Moyen Age aux Lumières, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2025
- (with Annarita Angelini and Paolo Porzio), Metaphysica paupera. New Insights Into the History of Metaphysics, special issue Diogenes, vol, 65, issue 3 : https://doi.org/10.1017/S0392192124000130 2017
- (with G. M. Müller), Philosophie in Rom-Römische Philosophie. Kultur-,literatur-und philosophiegeschichtliche Perspektive, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2017
- (with D. Thouard, F. Vollhardt), Philologie als Wissensmodell, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2009
- (with J. Biard), Les lieux de l’argumentation. Histoire du syllogisme topique d’Aristote à Leibniz, Turnhout, Brepols, 2009
