Burzelli, Luca

Luca Burzelli (Mantova 1992) is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. He obtained his doctorate at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy) and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the De Wulff-Mansion Centre of KU-Leuven (Belgium) and at the University of Siegen (Germany).
His areas of research include the medieval tradition of Aristotelian commentaries, the spread of Averroism to the Western Latin culture, the comparison between Platonism and Aristotelianism in the 15th century, and the academic philosophy of the Renaissance. He has worked on topics of natural philosophy, in particular the theory of the elements from late antiquity to the 16th century. His current research focuses on the debate on the elements in the Catalan philosophical tradition of the 14th century. 
He is the author of two monographs (La natura e Aristotele insegnano. Studio sulla filosofia di Gasparo Contarini, IVSLA 2022; Pietro Pomponazzi and the Renaissance Theory of the Elements, LUP 2024, winner of the T. Ricklin Prize 2024) and editor of three critical editions (Gasparo Contarini, Scritti teologici, Aragno 2023; Giulio Rossi, La restaurazione del ponte di Orte, Sette Città 2022; Nicholas of Cusa, Marginalia in Aristotelem, Winter Verlag, forthcoming).