Marco SGARBI

Position
Full Professor
Roles
President of the University Quality Assurance Unit
Telephone
041 234 7256
E-mail
marco.sgarbi@unive.it
Academic discipline
History of Philosophy [PHIL-05/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/marco.sgarbi(personal record)
Office
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.fbc
Where: Malcanton Marcorà
Research Institute
Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage

Office hours

Teaching activity current year

Teaching activity previous years

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Storia della filosofia [PHIL-05/A]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Europa, America Settentrionale, America Latina
Known languages
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
Editor: Philosophical Readings
Editor: Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy
Editor: Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition
Editorial board: Al-Mukhatabat. Logic-Epistemology-Analytical Philosophy. المخاطبات. منطق - ابستيمولوجيا - فلسفة تحليلية; Etica & Politica; Estudios Kantianos; philosophy@lisbon; Lo Sguardo.
Participation as referees of national and international research projects
2019- Expert for New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe (NORFACE)
2019- Expert for Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)
2018- Evaluator for Croatian Science Foundation
2018- Evaluator for Madrid Institute of Advanced Study
2016- Evaluator for National Science Centre, Poland
2016- Evaluator for the Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca of the research products for the VQR
2016- Evaluator for the Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca of the Research Projects of National Interest (PRIN)
2016- Evaluator for the European Research Council for the Marie Curie Programme for the panel ECO-SOC
2015- Evaluator for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
2015- Evaluator for the Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca for the SIR project
2014- Evaluator for the Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca of the research products for the ANVUR
2014- Evaluator for the DAAD (Humanities and Philosophy)
2013- Evaluator for the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR)
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Filologia e Lingua Linea: Filologia medievale e umanistica
Area: Filologia e Lingua Linea: Storia del libro, biblioteconomia
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Filosofia della scienza
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Logica
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Storia della filosofia
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali
Area: Letteratura Linea: Letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea
Area: Storia e Antropologia Linea: Storia moderna
Area: Studi culturali Linea: Studi culturali
Area: Studi storici e relazioni internazionali Linea: Europa occidentale
studio dei testi filosofici moderni, rinascimentali e antichi
Description:
study of ancient, renaissance and modern philosophical texts
ATECO code:
[85.4] - istruzione post-secondaria universitaria e non universitaria
Erc Starting Grant 2013 – 335949. Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular: Rethinking Renaissance and Early-Modern Intellectual History (c. 1400–c. 1650)
SSD:
M-FIL/06
Other members of the research group:
Vera RIBAUDO
Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular: Rethinking Renaissance and Early-Modern Intellectual History (c. 1400–c. 1650)
Funding body:
European Research Council
Type:
VII Programma Quadro - Ideas
Role in the project:
LD
Sito di progetto:
aristotleinthevernacular.org
Starting date:
Year: 2014 Length in months: 60
ERC Starting Grant 2013-ARISTOTLE - Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular: Rethinking Renaissance and Early-Modern Intellectual History (c. 1400–c. 1650) (P.I. M. Sgarbi)
Funding body:
ERC
Type:
VII Programma Quadro - Ideas
Role in the project:
NS
Starting date:
Year: 2013 Length in months: 60
Other members of the research group:
Matteo COSCI
Alessio COTUGNO
Empirical Knowledge and Antiquarian Architecture in Sixteenth-century Venice
Funding body:
EU Commission
Type:
H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2020 Length in months: 24
Ill-Health, Work and Occupational Health in Early Modern Italy (ca. 1550-1750)
Funding body:
eu Commission
Type:
H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2020 Length in months: 24
Logic in the Time of Peter Abelard. Neglected Evidence from Manuscripts Preserved on the Italian Peninsula, and an Analysis of the Links between Scholars in Northern France and Italy, c. 1090-1160
Funding body:
MIUR
Type:
Programma Rita Levi Montalcini
Role in the project:
PT
Starting date:
Year: 2019 Length in months: 36
Philosophical Reviews in German Territories (1668-1799)
Funding body:
MUR
Type:
PRIN
Role in the project:
NS
Starting date:
Year: 2023 Length in months: 24
Other members of the research group:
Matteo FAVARETTI CAMPOSAMPIERO
Reading Descartes: A Reassessment of the Shaping and Transmission of Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century
Funding body:
EU Commission
Type:
H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2020 Length in months: 24
Reassessing Realism over Universals in the Time of Peter Abelard
Funding body:
European Commission
Type:
H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2020 Length in months: 36
Sperone Speroni (1500-1588) and the Rebirth of Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance
Funding body:
European Commission - Research Executive Agency
Type:
H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2015 Length in months: 24
Standing at the Crossroads: Doubt in Early Modern Italy (1500-1560)
Funding body:
European Commission
Type:
H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
Role in the project:
LD
Sito di progetto:
https://www.unive.it/pag/35603/
Starting date:
Year: 2018 Length in months: 36
The Emergence of a Science of Vegetation in Early Modern Natural Philosophy and the Sciences of Life: From Cesalpino to Malpighi
Funding body:
EU Commission
Type:
H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2020 Length in months: 36
The Ophiucus Supernova: Post-Aristotelian Stargazing in the European Context (1604-1654)
Funding body:
European Commission
Type:
H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2019 Length in months: 36

Publication highlights

Sgarbi, Marco Christian Thomasius and Reviewing as Philosophy , Philosophical Reviews in German Territories (1668-1799) Volume 2, Firenze University Press, pp. 35-48 (ISBN 9791221509991; 9791221510607; 9791221510003; 9791221509984)
DOI 2026, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5123470

Marco Sgarbi Objects of Thought: Clemens Timpler and the Emergence of the “Object Problem” in Early Modern Philosophy , 400 Jahre Clemens Timpler (1624–2024) Eine internationale Festschrift, Olms, pp. 374-386
2026, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5125707

Marco Sgarbi Pietro Pomponazzi's Epistemic and Experiential Empiricism , Continental Empiricism, Routledge, pp. 16-33
2026, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5120008

Sgarbi, Marco Reviews of the Pre-Critical Kant , Philosophical Review in German Territories (1668-1799). Volume I, Firenze University Press, pp. 71-89 (ISBN 9791221505733; 9791221505740; 9791221505757; 9791221505726)
DOI 2025, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5095608

Marco Sgarbi Vernacular Metaphysics in Renaissance Ragusa , Renaissance Aristotelianism in Southeast Europe. Scholarship, Metaphysics, and Interactions with Platonism, Bloomsbury, pp. 151-165
2025, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5088948

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