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GIOVANNI CATAPANO
Position
Professore Ordinario
Address
PIAZZA CAPITANIATO, 3 - PALAZZO DEL CAPITANIO - PADOVA
Telephone
0498274729
Giovanni Catapano was born in Pordenone in 1972. He is full Professor of the History of Medieval Philosophy since 2022 (Associate Professor from 2015 to 2022 and Assistant Professor from 2007 to 2015). He completed his studies in Philosophy at the University of Padua, where he earned his degree in 1995 and his Ph.D. in 1999. At the same university, he was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from 1999 to 2001 and a research grant from 2002 to 2006. Since 2011, he is a faculty member of the PhD Programme in Philosophy, University of Padua. From 2013 to 2022, he was the president of the Interdepartmental Center for Research in Medieval Philosophy (Padua). He is a co-director of the journal «Medioevo. Rivista di storia della filosofia medievale». His research focuses on the late ancient roots of medieval thought, and in particular on: 1) the philosophy of Augustine of Hippo and its historical reception; 2) the ethics and anthropology of Plotinus; 3) the history of the idea of philosophy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
For a detailed CV, see the pdf file that can be downloaded here below.
Notices
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Il ricevimento si tiene a distanza (online) per appuntamento, al link Zoom https://unipd.zoom.us/j/85105662466?pwd=OEp1aTREQmhuVlZVZFRKTk1ETTc4Zz09 (password 889537). Contattare il docente via email, indicando nel messaggio oggetto e motivo del colloquio richiesto.
Teachings
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2024 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2024 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2024 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2024 (LEM0018821)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2024 (LE09108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2024 (LE11108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY (B), AA 2024 (SUP9085860)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2023 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2023 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2023 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2023 (LEM0018821)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2023 (LE09108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2023 (LE11108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY (B), AA 2023 (SUP9085860)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2022 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2022 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2022 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2022 (LEM0018821)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2022 (LE09108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2022 (LE11108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY (B), AA 2022 (SUP9085860)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2021 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2021 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2021 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2021 (LEM0018821)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2021 (LE11108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2021 (LE09108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY (B), AA 2021 (SUP9085860)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2020 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2020 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2020 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2020 (LEM0018821)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2020 (LE11108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2020 (LE09108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY (B), AA 2020 (SUP9085860)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2019 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2019 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2019 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2019 (LEM0018821)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2019 (LE11108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2019 (LE09108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY (B), AA 2019 (SUP9085860)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2018 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2018 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2018 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2018 (LEM0018821)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2018 (LE09108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2018 (LE11108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2018 (LE11108368)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2017 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2017 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2017 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2017 (LEM0018821)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2017 (LE11108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2017 (LE09108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2017 (LE11108368)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2016 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2016 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2016 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2016 (LEM0018821)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2016 (LE11108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2016 (LE09108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2016 (LE11108368)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2015 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2015 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2015 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2015 (LEM0018821)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2015 (LE11108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2015 (LE11108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2015 (LE09108368)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2014 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2014 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2014 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2014 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2014 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2014 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2014 (LEM0018821)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2014 (LEM0018821)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2014 (LE09108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2014 (LE11108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2014 (LE11108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2014 (LE09108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2014 (LE11108368)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2013 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2013 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2013 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2013 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2013 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2013 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2013 (LEM0018821)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2013 (LEM0018821)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2013 (LE09108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2013 (LE11108368)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH, AA 2012 (LEM0018815)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, AA 2012 (LEM0018817)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH, AA 2012 (LEM0018819)
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: GERMAN, AA 2012 (LEM0018821)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2012 (LE11108368)
- HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY, AA 2011 (LE11108368)
Publications
More information at http://unipd.academia.edu/GiovanniCatapano
1. Books: authored (http://unipd.academia.edu/GiovanniCatapano/Books)
1.1. Epékeina tês philosophías. L’eticità del filosofare in Plotino, Padova: CLEUP, 1995, pp. 228, ISBN 8871784774.
1.2. L’idea di filosofia in Agostino. Guida bibliografica, Padova: Il Poligrafo («Subsidia Mediaevalia Patavina», 1), 2000, pp. 348.
1.3. Il concetto di filosofia nei primi scritti di Agostino. Analisi dei passi metafilosofici dal Contra Academicos al De vera religione, Roma: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum («Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum», 77), 2001, pp. 365.
1.4. Agostino, Roma: Carocci editore («Pensatori», 12), 2010, pp. 310.
2. Translations, commentaries, anthologies (http://unipd.academia.edu/GiovanniCatapano/Books)
2.1. Introduzione, traduzione, note e apparati di AGOSTINO, Sull’anima (L’immortalità dell’anima. La grandezza dell’anima), Milano: Bompiani («Testi a fronte», 83), 2003, pp. 448.
2.2. In collaborazione con P. Bettiolo, C. D’Ancona, A. Donato, C. Guerra, C. Martini, C. Marzolo, A. Schiaparelli, M. Zambon: traduzione e commento di PLOTINO, La discesa dell’anima nei corpi (Enn. IV 8 [6]); Plotiniana Arabica (pseudo-Teologia di Aristotele, capitoli 1 e 7; “Detti del Sapiente Greco”), a cura di C. D’Ancona, Padova: Il Poligrafo («Subsidia Mediaevalia Patavina», 4), 2003, pp. 550.
2.3. Curatela (introduzione, scelta dei brani, note) dell’antologia SANT’AGOSTINO, La giustizia, Roma: Città Nuova («Piccola Biblioteca Agostiniana», 38), 2004, pp. 318.
2.4. Introduzione, traduzione, note e apparati di AGOSTINO, Contro gli Accademici, Milano: Bompiani («Testi a fronte», 92), 2005, pp. 443.
2.5. Introduzione generale, presentazioni, note e apparati; traduzione dei dialoghi Contra Academicos, Soliloquia, De immortalitate animae, De quantitate animae, De libero arbitrio di AGOSTINO, Tutti i dialoghi, Milano: Bompiani («Il pensiero occidentale»), 2006, pp. CCCXI + 1831.
2.6. Introduzione, testo greco, traduzione e commento di PLOTINO, Sulle virtù (I 2 [19]), Pisa: PLUS («Greco, Arabo, Latino. Le vie del sapere», 2), 2006, pp. 246 + 19.
2.7. Curatela (introduzione, scelta dei brani, note) dell’antologia SANT’AGOSTINO, Il tempo, Roma: Città Nuova («Piccola Biblioteca Agostiniana», 43), 2007, pp. 144.
2.8. Prima traduzione in lingua moderna di AGOSTINO D’IPPONA, Sermo Erfurt 5, cap. 1, in «Il Sole 24 Ore Domenica» di Domenica 13 Aprile 2008, n° 102, p. 29.
2.9. Saggio introduttivo, presentazioni dei singoli dialoghi, note e apparati; traduzione dei dialoghi Soliloquia, De immortalitate animae e De libero arbitrio di AGOSTINO, Dialoghi, Milano: Bompiani («Le Grandi Opere del Corriere della Sera. Classici del pensiero occidentale», 3), 2009, pp. 748.
2.10. Note, in SEVERINO BOEZIO, La consolazione di Filosofia. A cura di Maria Bettetini. Traduzione di Barbara Chitussi. Note di Giovanni Catapano. Testo latino a fronte, Torino: Giulio Einaudi editore («Nuova Universale Einaudi», 3), 2010, pp. 257-283.
2.11. Introduzione, traduzione e note di Sant’Agostino, Sermoni di Erfurt, Venezia: Marcianum Press («Strumenti - Patristica», 3), 2012, pp. CLXVI + 1315.
The complete list in the pdf file here below.
Research Area
My research mainly focuses on Augustine of Hippo.
Thesis proposals
See at http://cirfim.unipd.it/attivita/formazione/proposte-tesi/.
