"Ad Ingenii Acuitionem". Studies in Honour of Alfonso Maierù

The papers presented in this volume in honour of Alfonso Maierù cover some of the major topics of his research area. The institutional and intellectual life of university training in the Middle Ages, including the peculiar tradition of related works, is the focus of the papers by Louis Jacques Bataillon, William J. Courtenay, Jacqueline Hamesse, Zénon Kaluza, Loris Sturlese and Olga Weijers. Three papers, by Jacopo Costa, Pasquale Porro and Thomas Ricklin, deal with philosophical problems in Dante’s Monarchia and Convivio. The complex interrelations between logic and the other main aspects of medieval philosophy, with a particular attention to theology, metaphysics and natural philosophy, are the core of the other papers by Stefano Caroti, Sten Ebbesen, Barbara Faes de Mottoni, Simo Knuuttila, Alain de Libera, Olga Lizzini, Costantino Marmo, Claude Panaccio, Ivan Bendwell, Irène Rosier-Catach, Lambert Marie de Rijk, Leonardo Sileo, Luisa Valente, and Albert Zimmermann.

A larger number of friends and colleagues of Alfonso Maierù than those who appear as contributors and editors of this volume have warmly welcomed its publication. We could say, therefore, that it is absolutely contingent that the Editors are: Stefano Caroti (Università degli Studi di Parma), Ruedi Imbach (Université de Paris-Sorbonne), Zénon Kaluza (Centre d’Études des Religions du Livre, C.N.R.S), Loris Sturlese (Università degli Studi di Lecce) and Giorgio Stabile(Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”).