Collaborators and Students

Alessandro Balbo is a philosophy master student at Università degli studi di Bologna "Alma Mater Studiorum".He graduated from "Università degli studi di Torino" in April 2021, with a thesis entitled "Nietzsche anarchist. A comparison between Emma Goldman and Gianni Vattimo".He collaborates at the center "Sive Natura". He wrote a series of reviews for the magazine "Philosophy Kitchen".His interests are focalizing on theoretical philosophy, political philosophy, and moral philosophy. In particular on the topic of the relation between collectivity and individuality and on the management and creation of power.His principals' authors of references are Spinoza, Deleuze and Nietzsche.

I’m Francesco Belmonte. I’m doing my master’s degree in Philosophical Sciences at University of Bologna. I’ve done my bachelor in Political Sciences (2019) and also in Philosophy (2021) at University of Trento. I’ve been always oriented to a multidisciplinary approach and specifically I’m focused both on political and theoretical issues. Particularly, I’m interested in the link between theory and praxis.

My name is Alberto Benetti, I am a post-graduate student of philosophy ((philosophical sciences)) at Unibo. I graduated at Ca’ Foscari with a thesis concerning difference in Gilles Deleuze’s political works. In regards to Spinoza’s thought, I am particularly interested in the relationship between ontology, ethics and political theory as it can be found in his work, as well as the influence on contemporary french philosophy and psychoanalysis, mainly referring to Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan’s theories.

My name is Walter Bertoli, and I am a Philosophy student at the Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, to which I enrolled after my graduation at the Liceo Scientifico Decio Celeri of Lovere (BG), my hometown. Now I live in Bologna, where I study and work. My interests are about studying both philosophy and other subjects involved in the knowledge of the world, music (I study jazz piano), and nature.

Margherita Bovo got her high school diploma (100/100) in 2020 and currently studies Philosophy at Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna University, when she enrolled in the academic year 2020/2021. Her interests mainly focus on the influence and the interpretations of Spinoza during Enlightenment, with particular regards to atheism.

My name is Fabio Carnevali and I was born near Mantua in 1999. After my high school degree I graduated in Philosophy and I’m currently studying Philosophical Sciences at the University of Bologna. My interests focus on environmental ethics and political philosophy, referring in particular to Spinoza and Murray Bookchin.

Born in Lecce on 9 April 1999, he attended the Faculty of Philosophy at the Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna from the A.Y. 2018/19. Close to the bachelor's degree, he is working on a thesis concerning the role of art in Spinoza's philosophy, with the support of Professor Lorenzo Vinciguerra. He is interested in music, drawing, creative writing and art in general as a form of expression of the power of the body.

Giulia Rosaria Giudice is a Philosophy student at Alma Mater Studiorumgraduated from the classical high school Carlo Pisacane in Sapri. She spent her childhood and adolescence in a small town in Campania and then moved to the province of Pavia. She currently lives in Bologna where she works as a child educator.She is a lover of aesthetics and all forms of art. Her interests are: study, writing, dance and all those activities that allow you to practice freedom of spirit.She is particularly interested in Spinoza's philosophy precisely because it is capable of creating a good combination of beauty, freedom, psychology and art.

My name is Giorgia Lugani. I am a student of the Master's Degree in Philosophical Sciences. I graduated in History of Ancient Philosophy (supervisor Carlotta Capuccino) with a thesis on the problem of Corporeity and the Sensible in Plato. My current interests mainly concern the ontological and anthropological discourse in Greek thought and the reception of the classics in the modern and contemporary age.

I am Valerio Francesco Mangiacotti, I attend the first year of a bachelor's degree in philosophy, I graduated from Liceo Classico.My interests concerning philosophy allign with logic, economics and literature. Furthermore, I am trying to approach more current issues of analytic philosophy.

My name is Carlo Marchetti, I'm almost twenty years old and I was born in Celano, a small town located in Abruzzo. I've studied in the A. Torlonia classical highschool in Avezzano and now I'm a student at the first year of the three-year degree in philosophy at the University of Bologna, the Alma Mater Studiorum. I don't play sports, but I played the clarinet for seven years and the violin for three years. Besides philosophy, which represents to me not only a subject of study, but also and mostly a way to decide how to lead my own life, my interests mainly concern cinema, literature and music.

I graduated in Philosophical Sciences with a dissertation on noncommutative spacetime in quantum gravity. During my university years, I pursued the study of history of Early-Modern philosophy together with philosophy of physics. Specifically, I delved into the emergence of Neoplatonic instances in Renaissance philosophy, and the development of Cartesian philosophy in the Seventeenth century. My area of interest in Spinoza’s thought comprehends both his philosophy of physics and the construction of his metaphysics, with particular reference to his argumentation techniques and the diachronical elaboration of the Cartesian lexicon. I also like tv series, pure mathematics and drinking coffee with friends.

Massimo Natali was born in Rieti in 1994.

After the High School (with a specialization in Classics), in 2014 he got a Diploma at “G.B. Pergolesi” Conservatory of Music (Fermo, Italy) working on Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach.

In 2018, he obtained a Master’s Degree in piano performance at “G. Rossini” Conservatory of Music (Pesaro, Italy) working on the Etudes for Piano vol.1 by Philip Glass.

In 2019 he published his first original piano solo album (Nobody’s Home) with the label Blue Spiral Records.

In 2021 he got a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy in the University of Bologna, working on some Perspectives of dialogue between high and popular music in the twentieth century.

He is attending the first year of the Master Degree in Philosophical Sciences at the University of Bologna.

He is interested in the relationships between theory and practice of arts.

Giovanni Paolo Pilloni attends philosophy at the Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna. Interested in Spinoza and moral philosophy, especially in its interactions and implications with modern psychology. Also passionate about existentialism, natural sciences, literature and cinema.Got it, thanks!Thank you!Got it!Questi suggerimenti sono stati utili?

I am a currently graduating BA student in Philosophy at Università di Bologna. The thesis I'm going to be working on is focused on the intersections and ambiguities in the relationship between spinozian studies on the theory of knowledge and the state of the art of some specific models within cognitive sciences.
My interests fall mainly within the field of Philosophy of Science and Technics and the relationship between semiotics and cognitive sciences.
Among the various projects in which I was lucky enough to participate, in my brief experience, I point out the drafting of a six-handed interview-dialogue "With Toni Negri" together with the Italian thinker, available for free online.

Francesca Salmena is a student at the University of Bologna. She is particularly interested in Spinoza's thought because she is in some way indebted to him: his philosophy has succeeded in teaching her to re-think, giving form and order to everything that previously appeared to her mind confused and formless.

Paola Santoro studies Philosophy at the University of Bologna.

She was born in Naples in 2002, she then graduated from the A. Manzoni scientific high school in Caserta in 2021.

During her adolescence she participated in several poetry competitions including the Emily Dickinson International Literary Prize, of which she was the winner in 2018.

Between her love for cinema and her love for philosophy, she dedicates her attention to ethical-political issues, finding fertile ground for her passion in Spinoza.

Her books are stained with tea and for this reason she would not change them for anything else in the world.

My name is Giacomo Tore and I am attending the second year of the three-year degree course in Philosophy here at the University of Bologna. After meeting Spinoza's thoughts in the first year, I decided to deepen the author by combining some of my philosophical interests.

philosophy student at the University of Bologna. My interests are in ontology, phenomenology, aesthetics, ethics and political philosophy.
I am deepening the relationship between Spinoza and Merleau-ponty for what concerns themes such as the philosophy of the body and the concept of passivity