First year: the ER has organized her work in accordance with the Supervisor in order to meet the training, skills, and research deliverables as stated in the project: collection and organization of data on the selected case studies. With the Supervisor she has organized three seminars, Trois rencontres de philosophie. Humanisme et Renaissance at HI; she has given presentations of her project in Strasbourg and Aix-en-Provence and she attended conferences and seminars at the FRIAS in Freiburg i.Br. and at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
The ER increased her scientific skills in history of political thought, Medieval concept of power, Latin and Vernacular in Medieval philosophy, French Medieval philosophy, female political treatises; she enriched her knowledge of the methodologies of the historical research, and she developed the capacity of critical analysis and evaluation of her own work. Training: the ER brought her own competencies (especially on medieval philology, digital resources for the humanities and renaissance studies) to animate the seminar on medieval philosophy organized and led by the Supervisor at the HI in 3 different occasions. She gave two lectures in the ‘Travaux dirigés’ course of the Faculty of Philosophy on Renaissance philosophy.
The ER attended webinars on transferable skills (gender bias, project management, leadership in research groups) and in she worked with the group ‘Centre Aixois d’Études Romanes’ of the University of Aix-Marseille for a proposal preparation (call ANR 2018).
During the second year of the fellowship, she focused on the incoming international congress The Making of Political Thought. Ruptures, Trends, and Patterns between Henry VII and Louis IV the Bavarian, held at the University of Strasbourg in 2018. Each invited speaker was the representative of a specific discipline such as philosophy, philology, the history of thought, institutions and law. This allowed to reconstruct the period (1310-1338) with due complexity by creating a synergy of information and data. The ER focused on publications and research activity, and she gathered the materials for a volume on the subject of the project.
The ER presented her project in Venice, London, Florence and Toronto and and she also shared her working experience (‘témoignage’) as applicant for a IF-MSC in Strasbourg and in Paris. She acquired a remarkable capacity of communicating her research results in French improving her knowledge of this language.
Results/ Publications linked to INSPIrE project
‘E vale altanto questa parola monarcie in franciesco quanto sengnoria d’un uomo tutto solo’. Il volgarizzamento toscano anonimo del Defensor pacis in «Philosophical Readings», X.3 (2018), 203-12.
«Venne copioso di tesoro, di gente d’arme & d’artiglieria». Charles VIII of France and Late Medieval Political Thought, in Praxis des Philosophierens, Praktiken der Historiographie Perspektiven von der Spätantike bis zur Moderne, eds. M. Meliadò, S. Negri, Verlag K. Alber, Freiburg i. Br., 2018, pp. 197-220.
La coturnice e la manna. Metafore del cibo nella predicazione quaresimale di Girolamo Savonarola, in I sermoni quaresimali: digiuno del corpo, banchetto dell’anima, a cura di P. Delcorno, E. Lombardo, L. Tromboni, Nerbini, Firenze, 2017, pp. 261-76.
The Making of Political Thought. Ruptures, Trends, and Patterns between Henry VII and Louis IV the Bavarian, Congrès terminus, in «Bulletin de philosophie médiévale», 60 (2018), 287-81
La discesa di Carlo VIII in Italia: l’impatto culturale di un evento politico tra XV e XVI secolo accepted in «Rinascimento», LIX (2019), in press.
Dissemination activities:
The ER promoted her work in public events and in communication & dissemination activities. She shared the results on social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Academia, ResearchGate), created a Fb page for INSPIrE project. A web site with all the information about the project are accessible is accessible:
https://inspirehorizon2020.wordpress.com(opens in new window). She shot two videos on two case studies and received a free illustration from Vikki Academy; she organized a dissemination activity in a primary school in Italy: INSPIrE4Children What is Politics? It consisted in two one-hour sessions with 10-years old children, debating about society, coexistence, and politics with the P4C (philosophy for children) method. She was appointed as Activity coordinator of the France chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association.
