Dr. Marta Borgo
SNF-Forschungsmitarbeiterin
Dr. phil.
T +41 41 229 52 73
marta.borgo@unilu.ch
Frohburgstrasse 3, Raum 3.B17
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Marta Borgo joined Prof. Ventimiglia’s team in 2021, as a SNSF researcher in the project Senses of Being. The Medieval Reception of Aristotle's doctrine starting from Metaphysics V 7 (1017 a7-b9). Her contribution will be focused especially on 13th and 14th century Latin Commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, which she will study from a textual as well as from a philosophical point of view.
After several foreign study and research projects (Paris, Oxford, Fribourg), M. Borgo received her PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) in 2009. Member of the Leonine Commission (Paris) since 2010, she is in charge of the critical edition of Aquinas’ commentaries on Aristotle’s Physics and Metaphysics. She collaborated on the critical edition of Aquinas’s Sermons (Cerf, 2014) and she contributes to the preparation of other volumes of the Leonine collection, with a focus on the documentation of the sources of Aquinas’ texts. In addition to her philological work, she regularly publishes papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Her main interests include the reception and use of Aristotle’s natural philosophy and metaphysics in the Medieval Latin West, especially in theological contexts. While in her PhD thesis she studied this topic mainly from the point of view of Aquinas’ quotations of Aristotle (La Fisica e la Metafisica di Aristotele nel Commento di Tommaso d’Aquino al Secondo Libro delle Sentenze di Pietro Lombardo - Emilio Bocca prize 2009), in a series of papers published from 2011 onwords she has focused rather on the theological reception of specific Aristotelian positions. Among other matters, she has written on the notion of matter and seminal reasons in the context of creation and on the concepts of nature, genus and species, as applied to the cases of angels and demons.
M. Borgo has contributed to several reference volumes. Among others, she authored a chapter on the Latin Medieval translations of Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Brill, 2014) and more recently, in collaboration with I. Costa, a chapter on the interpretation of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the XIIIth century (Brill, 2021).
Since 2011 M. Borgo has coauthered the Bulletin d’histoire des doctrine médiévales for the Revue des Sciences philosophiques et théologiques, and she has often acted as a referee for reviews and collections in the domain of the history of Medieval philosophy.
Publikationen
with Iacopo Costa, "Pythagoras Latinus. Aquinas’ Interpretation of Pythagoreanism in his Aristotelian Commentaries ", in Irene Caiazzo, Constantin Macris, Aurélien Robert (éd.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Phytagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2022, p. 350-372.
"Tommaso d’Aquino interprete dell’Exameron : prospettive filosofiche ", Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale, 32 (2021), 43-72.
"Motifs ps.-Dionysiens dans la démonologie de Thomas d’Aquin. Sur la bonté et l’intégrité de la nature des anges déchus", Revue des Sciences philosophiques et théologiques, 104 (2020), p. 465-500.
"Aquinas’ Academic Sermons Between Theory and Practice", dans H. Schoot, J. Verburgt, J. Vijgen (éd.), Initiation and Mistagogy in Thomas Aquinas. Scriptural, Systematic, Sacramental, Moral, and Pastoral Perspectives, Leuven-Paris-Bristol, Peeters, 2019, p. 295-321.
"Latin Medieval Translations of Aristotle’s Metaphysics ", in Fabrizio Amerini – Gabriele Galluzzo (éd.), The Latin Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Leiden, Brill, 2014, p. 19-57.
Sancti Thomae de Aquino Sermones, edidit L. J. Bataillon († 2009), editionem absoluerunt G. Berceville, M. Borgo, I. Costa, A. Oliva, cooperantibus P. Krupa, M. Millais, J.-Ch. de Nadaï, Z. Pajda, Rome – Paris, Commissio Leonina – Les éditions du Cerf (« Sancti Thomae de Aquino Opera Omnia iussu Leonis XIII P. M. edita cura et studio Fratrum Praedicatorum », 44, 1), 2014.
