 | - Progetti di Ricerca
- PRINCIPALI TEMI RICERCA : MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS: a) English moralists - and the Cambridge Neo-Platonists in particular - and continental philosophy, the Remonstrants. b) Research into the philosophical-political thought of French Protestants during the second half of the 16th and in the 17th century. In particular, the idea of toleration and the right of resistance (XVI-XVIII). c) The significance of the political-religious and scientific debate which was going on in Holland during the years 1683-89 in terms of Locke’s thought. The arminians, the unitarian, the quakers and the Locke's thought. The last works of Locke and the biblical hermeneutics. d) The diffusion of Spinoza’s works in England during the 17th century, particularly among the Cambridge Platonists, the Deists, the Latitudinarians, and among certain scientists involved in the Royal Society and the Boyle lectures. e) The editing and study of several works by Cardano, and of various aspects of Lombard Renaissance culture . f) The diffusion within Italy of Newtonian and Leibnizian ideas regarding the infinitesimal calculus (V. F. Stancari, Celestino Galiani, Guido Grandi).
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