CECILIA TRIFOGLI

Professore ordinario


email: cecilia.trifogli@all-souls.ox.ac.uk




EDUCAZIONE UNIVERSITARIA, TITOLI ACCADEMICI, POSIZIONI
1980-1986: Corso di Laurea in Filosofia, Università di Pisa.

1986 (Novembre): Laurea in Filosofia. Titolo della tesi: Il commento tardo-antico e medievale alla Fisica di Aristotele.

1987-1995: Corso di Laurea in Matematica, Università di Pisa.

1995 (Ottobre): Laurea in Matematica. Titolo della tesi: Luoghi focali di ipersuperfici algebriche.

1987 (Giugno-Luglio): Soggiorno di ricerca presso Aristoteles Latinus, De Wulf-Mansion Centrum, Università di Leuven.

1990 (Novembre)-1991 (Novembre): Borsista di ricerca della Fondazione "Ezio Franceschini" per lo studio del Medioevo Latino (Certosa del Galluzzo - Firenze).

1989-1994 (Agosto-Settembre-Ottobre), 1996 (Settembre-Ottobre), 1997-2000 (Agosto-Settembre): Soggiorno di ricerca presso Aristoteles Latinus, De Wulf-Mansion Centrum, Università di Leuven.

1995 (Gennaio)-1996 (Agosto): Borsa di ricerca dell’Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung al Thomas-Institut, Università di Colonia.

1996 (Novembre)-2000 (Ottobre): Programma di Dottorato in Matematica, Università di Milano. Titolo della tesi di dottorato: “The Geometry of Focal Loci”. Discussione della tesi nel Gennaio 2001.

1999 (Ottobre)-Presente: Lecturer in Medieval Philosophy, Università di Oxford, e Fellow di All Souls College. Titolo di "Professor of Medieval Philosophy" dall’Ottobre 2008.

2000-Presente: Membro del “British Academy Committee for the Edition of Medieval Latin Texts” e Chairman a partire dal 2008. Membro del sotto-comitato “Catalogue of the Aristotelian Commentaries contained in British Manuscripts”.

2002-2012: Presidente della Commissione “Aristoteles Latino” della Società Internazionale per lo studio della filosofia medievale (SIEPM).

Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) dal Luglio 2014.

PUBBLICAZIONI

Filosofia:

Libri:
(1) C. Trifogli, Oxford Physics in the XIIIth Century (ca. 1250-1270): Motion, Infinity, Place and Time, Brill, Leiden 2000.
(2) C. Trifogli, Liber Tertius Physicorum Aristotelis, Repertorio delle Questioni, Commenti Inglesi ca. 1250-1270, Sismel, Firenze, 2004.
(3) C. Trifogli, Liber Quartus Physicorum Aristotelis, Repertorio delle Questioni, Commenti Inglesi ca. 1250-1270, Sismel, Firenze 2007.
(4) Edizione in CD-Rom del testo latino delle Questioni sui libri III e IV della Fisica di Aristotele nei commenti inglesi degli anni 1250-1270, Sismel, Firenze 2007.
(5) Thomas Wylton, On the Intellectual Soul, edited by Lauge O. Nielsen and Cecilia Trifogli, English translation by Gail Trimble, Auctores britannici Medii Aevi 19, Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press 2010.
(6) Geoffrey of Aspall, Questions on Aristotle’s Physics, edited by S. Donati and C. Trifogli; English translation by J. Ashworth and C. Trifogli, Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi 26-27, Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press 2017.

Articoli:
(1) C. Trifogli, ‘The Place of the Last Sphere in Medieval Commentaries, in Knowledge and the Sciences in the Medieval Philosophy’, in: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, Helsinki 24-29 August 1987, ed. S. Knuuttila et alii, Helsinki 1990, vol. II, 342-350.
(2) C. Trifogli, ‘Il luogo dell'ultima sfera nei commenti tardo-antichi e medievali a Physica IV.5’ (versione ampliata di (1)), Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana, LXVIII (1989), fasc. II, 144-160.
(3) C. Trifogli, ‘La dottrina del luogo in Egidio Romano’, Medioevo, XIV (1988), 235-290.
(4) C. Trifogli, ‘Continuità e discontinuità delle grandezze fisiche in Egidio Romano’, Nuncius, Annali di Storia della Scienza, V (1990), fasc. 2, 53-73.
(5) C. Trifogli, ‘La dottrina del tempo in Egidio Romano’, Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, I (1990), fasc. 1, 247-276.
(6) C. Trifogli, ‘Il problema dello statuto ontologico del tempo nelle Quaestiones super Physicam di Thomas Wylton e di Giovanni di Jandun’, Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, I (1990), fasc. 2, 491-548.
(7) C. Trifogli, ‘Thomas Wylton on the Instant of Time’, in Miscellanea Mediaevalia, Band 21/1: Mensch und Natur im Mittelalter, 1991, 308-318.
(8) C. Trifogli, ‘Egidio Romano e la dottrina aristotelica dell'infinito’, Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, II (1991), fasc. 1, 217-238.
(9) C. Trifogli, ‘Le questioni sul libro III della Fisica in alcuni commenti inglesi intorno alla metà del sec. XIII’, part I in Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, II (1991), fasc. 2, 443-501; part II ibidem, IV (1993), fasc. 1, 135-178.
(10) C. Trifogli, ‘Giles of Rome on Natural Motion in the Void’, Medieval Studies, 54 (1992), 136-161.
(11) C. Trifogli, ‘Giles of Rome on the Instant of Change’, Synthese, An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 96 (1993), fasc. 1, 93-114.
(12) C. Trifogli, ‘An Aspect of Medieval Mathematics: Infinity in Number in Some English Commentaries of the XIIIth Century’, in Miscellanea Mediaevalia, Band 22: Scientia und ars im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter, 1994, 343-353.
(13) C. Trifogli, ‘Thomas Wylton on Motion’, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 1995, Heft 2, p. 135-154.
(14) C. Trifogli, ‘Thomas Wylton's Question "An contingit dare ultimum rei permanentis in esse"’, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, 4 (1994), 91-141.
(15) C. Trifogli, F. del Punta, S. Donati, ‘Commentaries on Aristotle's Physics in Britain, ca. 1250-1270’, in: Aristotle in Britain during the Middle Ages, Brepols, Turnhout 1996, 265-283.
(16) C. Trifogli, F. del Punta, ‘Giles of Rome’, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
(17) C. Trifogli, ‘Le questioni sul libro IV della Fisica in alcuni commenti inglesi intorno alla metà del sec. XIII’, part I in Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, VII (1996), 41-116; part II ibidem, IX (1998), 179-260.
(18) C. Trifogli, F. del Punta, S. Donati, ‘Le commentaires anglais sur la Physique d'Aristote au XIII siècle’, in L'enseignement des disciplines à la Faculté des arts (Paris et Oxford), Brepols, Turnhout 1997, 271-279.
(19) C. Trifogli, ‘Due questioni sul movimento nel commento alla Fisica di Thomas Wylton’, Medioevo, 21 (1995), 31-73.
(20) C. Trifogli, ‘Roger Bacon and Aristotle's Doctrine of Place’, Vivarium, 35 (1997) 2, 155-176.
(21) C. Trifogli, ‘An Anonymous Question on the Immobility of Place from the End of the XIIIth Century’, in Miscellanea Mediaevalia, Band 25: Raum und Raumvorstellungen im Mittelalter, W. De Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1998, 147-167.
(22) C. Trifogli, ‘The Unicity of Time in XIIIth Century Natural Philosophy’, in J.A. Aertsen, A. Speer (eds.), Was ist Philosophie im Mittelalter? (Miscellanea Mediaevalia, Band 26), De Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1998, 784-790.
(23) C. Trifogli, ‘Thomas Wylton on the Immobility of Place’, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales, LXV,1 (1998), 1-39.
(24) C. Trifogli, ‘Averroes’s Doctrine of Time and Its Reception in the Scholastic Debate’, in: The Medieval Concept of Time, ed. by P. Porro, Brill, Leiden, 2001, 57-82.
(25) C. Trifogli, ‘Matter and Form in Thirteenth-Century Discussions of Infinity and Continuity’, in: The Dynamics of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century, ed. by C. Leijenhorst, C. Lüthy, J.M.M.H. Thijssen, Brill, Leiden-Boston-Köln, 2002, 169-187.
(26) C. Trifogli, ‘The Reality of Time in the Commentary Tradition on the Physics: the case of Wylton and Burley’, in: Il commento filosofico nell’Occidente Latino (secoli XIII-XV), Brepols, Turnhout 2002, 233-251.
(27) C. Trifogli, ‘Thomas Wilton’, in: A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. J.J.E. Gracia, T.B. Noone, Blackwell, Oxford 2003, 666-667.
(28) C. Trifogli, ‘Thomas Wylton against Minimal Times’, Early Science and Medicine, 8 (2003), 4, 404-417.
(29) L. O. Nielsen, T. B. Noone, C. Trifogli, ‘Thomas Wylton’s Question on the Formal Distinction as Applied to the Divine’, Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, XIV (2003), 327-388.
(30) C. Trifogli, ‘Duns Scotus and the Medieval Debate about the Continuum’, Medioevo, 29 (2004), 233-266.
(31) C. Trifogli, L.O. Nielsen, ‘Thomas Wylton’s Questions on Number, the Instant, and Time’, Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, XVI (2005), 57-117.
(32) L.O. Nielsen, C. Trifogli, ‘Questions on the Beatific Vision by Thomas Wylton and Sibert of Beka’, Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, XVII (2006), 511-584.
(33) C. Trifogli, ‘Thomas Wylton on Final Causality’, in: Erfahrung und Beweis. Die Wissenschaften von der Natur im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert, eds. A. Fidora, M. Lutz-Bachmann, Akademie Verlag Berlin 2007, 249-264.
(34) C. Trifogli, ‘Giles of Rome’, in: Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine, An Encyclopedia, T. Glick, S.J. Livesey, F. Wallis editors, Routledge 2005, 197-198.
(35) C. Trifogli, ‘The Quodlibet of Thomas Wylton’, in: Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages, The Fourteenth Century, ed. C. Schabel, Brill, Leiden 2007, 231-266.
(36) C. Trifogli, P. De Leemans, ‘Commission II: The Latin Aristotle and Medieval Latin Commentaries on Aristotle’, Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale, 49 (2007), 3-25.
(37) C. Trifogli, ‘Change, Time, and Place’, in: The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, ed. by R. Pasnau, associate editor C. Van Dyke, 2 vols., Cambridge 2010, vol. 1, 267-278.
(38) L.O. Nielsen, C. Trifogli, ‘Guido Terreni and His Debate with Thomas Wylton’, Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, 20 (2009), 573-663.
(39) P. Adamson-C. Trifogli, ‘Time’, in Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer 2011.
(40) C. Trifogli, ‘Thomas Wylton’, in Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer 2011.
(41) C. Trifogli, ‘John Buridan on Place’, in Représentations et Conceptions de l'espace dans la culture médiévale/ Repraesentationsformen und Konzeptionen des Raums in der Kultur des Mittelalters, eds. T. Suarez-Nani, M. Rohde, De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, 193-213.
(42) P. De Leemans, C. Trifogli, ‘Commission II: The Latin Aristotle and Medieval Latin Commentaries on Aristotle’, Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 52 (2010), 3-13.
(43) M. McCord Adams, C. Trifogli, ‘Whose Thought Is It? The Soul and the Subject of Action in Some Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Aristotelians’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 85 (2012) 3, 624-647.
(44) Cecilia Trifogli, ‘Robert Kilwardby on Time’, in A Companion to the Philosophy of Robert Kilwardby, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2013, 209-238.
(45) Cecilia Trifogli, ‘Giles of Rome against Thomas Aquinas on the Subject of Thinking and the Status of the Human Soul’, Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 23 (2012), 221-244.
(46) Cecilia Trifogli, ‘Motion and Time’, in A companion to Walter Burley, ed. Alessandro Conti, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2013, 267-299.
(47) C. Trifogli, P. De Leemans, ‘Commission II: The Latin Aristotle and Medieval Latin Commentaries on Aristotle (2007-2012)’, Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale, 54 (2012), 3-22.
(48) Cecilia Trifogli, ‘Peter of Auvergne on Place and Natural Place’, in Peter of Auvergne. University Master of the 13th Century, ed. by C. Flüeler, L. Lanza, M. Toste, De Gruyter, Berlin-München-Boston 2015, 89-106.
(49) C. Trifogli, ‘Guido Terreni on the Final Cause’, in Guido Terreni, O. Carm. (+1342): Studies and Texts, ed. A. Fidora, Barcelona-Madrid 2015, 71-82, 307-324.
(50) C. Trifogli, ‘The Reception of Averroes' View on Motion in the Latin West: the Case of Walter Burley’, in Averroes' Natural Philosophy and Its Reception in the Latin West, ed. by P. J.J.M. Bakker, Leuven: Leuven University Press 2015, 127-139.
(51) S. Donati, C. Trifogli, ‘Natural Philosophy’, in A Companion to Giles of Rome, ed. C F. Briggs and P. S. Eardley, Leiden-Boston, Brill 2016, 73-113.
(52) C. Trifogli, ‘Thomas Wylton and Walter Burley on Local Motion
and Relative Change’, in Lieu, Espace, Mouvement: Physique, Métaphysique et Cosmologie (XIIe-XVIe siècles), ed. T. Suarez-Nani, O. Ribordy, A. Petagine, FIDEM, Barcelona-Rome 2017, 145-163.
(53) C. Trifogli, ‘Walter Burley on the Incipit and Desinit of an Instant of Time’, in The Instant of Change in Medieval Philosophy and Beyond, ed. F. Goubier and M. Roques, with the collaboration of W. Duba and C. Schabel, Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2018, 85-102.
(54) C. Trifogli, ‘Geoffrey of Aspall on Matter’, in Materia, Nouvelles perspectives de recherche dans la pensée et la culture médiévales (XIIe-XVIe siècles), ed. by T. Suarez-Nani and A. Paravicini Bagliani, Florence, Sismel-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2017, 99-122.
(55) C. Trifogli, ‘Geoffrey of Aspall on Nature’, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 85(1), 2018, 47-69.
(56) C. Trifogli, ‘Avicenna’s Physics in Roger Bacon's Communia Naturalium’, in The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Physics and Cosmology, ed. by D. N. Hasse and A. Bertolacci, De Gruyter, Boston-Berlin 2018, 433-457.
(57) C. Trifogli, ‘Thomas Aquinas and Giles of Rome on the Reception of Forms without Matter’, Vivarium 57 (2019), 244-267.
(58) C. Trifogli, ‘Giles of Rome on Sense Perception’, in Quaestio. Yearbook of the History of Metaphysics, 20 (2020) (special number: Doctor Fundatissimus. Giles of Rome: His Thought and Influence, eds. M. Benedetto, F. Marrone, P. Porro), 89-104.
(59) C. Trifogli, ‘The Creation of Matter in the Summa Halensis’, in: The Legacy of Early Franciscan Thought, ed. L. Schumacher, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2021, 15-35.
(60) C. Trifogli, ‘Roger Bacon on Substantial Change’, in: The Philosophy and Science of Roger Bacon. Studies in Honour of Jeremiah Hackett, eds. N. Polloni & Y. Kedar, Routledge, London/New York 2021, 54-75.
(61) C. Trifogli, ‘Space and Place’, in: The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, eds. R. Cross & JT Paasch, Routledge, New York/London 2021, 175-183.
(62) C. Trifogli, ‘Thomas Aquinas on cognition as information’, in: Information and the History of Philosophy, ed. C. Meyns, Routledge, Abingdon New York 2021, 137-149.
(63) C. Trifogli, ‘Duns Scotus on matter and form’, in: Interpreting Duns Scotus, Critical essays, ed. G. Pini, CUP 2022, 178-195.
(64) C. Trifogli, ‘Ockham on Time’, in: Ockhamism and Philosophy of Time: Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Future Contingents, ed. A. Santelli, Springer (Synthese Library 452), 2022, 11-31.
(65) C. Trifogli, ‘Thomas Wylton on the Ceasing of an Instant of Time’, forthcoming in: Quantifying Aristotle. The Impact, Spread and Decline of the Calculatores Tradition, eds. D. A. Di Liscia & E. D. Sylla, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2022, 20-36.
(66) C. Trifogli, ‘Medieval Views on the Subject of Thought and the Intellectual Soul’, in: The Embodied Soul. Aristotelian Psychology and Physiology in Medieval Europe between 1200 and 1420, eds. M. Gensler, M. Mansfeld, M. Michalowska, Springer 2022, pp. 191-211.
(67) C. Trifogli, ‘Body and Soul in Purgatorio, XXV’, Medioevo 46 (2021), pp. 205-27.
(68) C. Trifogli, ‘Thomas Wylton against Thomas Aquinas on divine ideas’, Studi sull’Aristotelismo Medievale, 2022 (2), pp. 167-196.


In corso di stampa:
(1) C. Trifogli, ‘Gli esperimenti sull’esistenza del vuoto nei commenti alla Fisica di Aristotele del XIII secolo’, forthcoming in: Percorsi di confine, Mimesis.
(2) C. Trifogli, ‘John Buridan on final causality’, in print in: Interpreting John Buridan, ed. H. Lagerlund, Cambridge University Press.

Recensioni:
(1) The Physics of Duns Scotus. The Scientific Context of a Theological Vision. By Richard Cross, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1998, in The Journal of Theological Studies, 51 (2000), I, 355-360.
(2) Duns Scotus. By Richard Cross, New York, Oxford University Press 1999, in Ibid.
(3) The Cambridge Companion to Ockham, ed. by P.V. Spade, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1999, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 32 (2001) 1, 131-132.
(4) Averroes' Physics: A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy by Ruth Glasner, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009 in Aestimatio 7 (2010), 78-88.
(5) History of Philosophy in Reverse: Reading Aristotle through the Lenses of Scholars from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Centuries, edited by Sten Ebbesen, David Bloch, Jakob Leth Fink, Heine Hansen, and Ana María Mora- Márquez, (Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica 8, vol. 7.) Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2014, in Speculum 91/2, 2016, 484-485.
(6) Roger Bacon's Communia Naturalium. A 13th Century Philosopher's Workshop, edited by Paola Bernardini and Anna Rodolfi Florence: Sismel-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014, in Aestimatio 12 (2015), 174-180.


Matematica:
(1) C. Trifogli, ‘Focal Loci of Algebraic Hypersurfaces: A General Theory’, Geometriae Dedicata, 70 (1998), 1-26.
(2) F. Catanese, C. Trifogli, ‘Focal Loci of Algebraic Varieties I’, Communications in Algebra, 28(12), 2000, 6017-6057.





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