Research

Published papers:

“The pleasure thesis in the Eudemian Ethics,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 60, 4, 521-536.

“Natural goods in the Eudemian Ethics,” Ancient Philosophy 41(1), 2021, 123-142.

“Kalokagathia and the unity of the virtues in the EE,” APEIRON, Volume 53, Issue 1, 2020, 27–57.

“Pleasure and motivation in the Eudemian Ethics” in Proceedings of the Aristotle World Congress in Thessaloniki: Aristotle 2400 Years, D. Sfendoni-Mentzou (ed.), 2019.

“Beyond the flammantia moenia mundi. The transgressive notion of the sublime in Lucretius’ De rerum natura”, Journal of the LUCAS graduate conference, 2016.

“Passions tragiques : la pitié et la crainte par rapport à la catharsis en Aristote”, Proceedings of the conference “Passions : transports, sublimation”, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France, 2014.

Chapters in book:

“Complete virtue,” in G. Di Basilio, Investigating the relationship between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics, Routledge 2022, 172-188.

“Honour and its goodness in Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics.” In Cairns, Douglas & Canevaro, Mirko (eds.), Honour in Classical Greece, University of Edinburgh Press (forthcoming).

Reviews 

Review: J. Warren, The pleasures of reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists (2014), Classical World, 109, 4, 2016.

Review: W. Lapini, L’epistola a Erodoto e il bios di Epicuro in Diogene Laerzio (2015), Gymnasium. Zeitschrift fu¨r Kultur der Antike und Humanistische Bildung, M. Janka, A. Luther, U. Schmitzer (eds.), 124, 2, 2017, pp. 186-188.

Review: F. Alesse, Aristotle on prescription: Deliberation and Rule-Making in Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy (2018), Classical Journal, March 2020.

Pre-doctoral publication

“Aesthetic pleasure: cognition and emotion in the aesthetic concepts. Remarks after Sibley’s work”, Rivista di Estetica, 55, 1, 2014 (submitted and accepted in 2011 before starting the PhD).

Non-academic writings

“Per intervalla insaniae: le Avanguardie americane” , in G. P. Brunetta, P. Favuzzi (eds.), La via mélièsiana. Viaggio nella storia del cinema in quattordici tappe, Esedra Editrice, Padova, 2010.