Aurora Panzica

Education AP is a medievalist, specialized in the study of manuscript sources, particularly in the field of natural philosophy. She studied medieval philosophy, paleography and Medieval Latin at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where she graduated in 2015. She subsequently obtained a Certificate of Specialization in Medieval Studies (2016) and a PhD in Medieval Philosophy (2020) from the same university. Affiliations She currently holds a post-doctoral mobility scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (FNS). She is associate researcher at SPHère (CNRS, UMR 7219) and has a part-time affiliation at the Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought at the Czech Academy of Sciences. She is ordinary member of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy (SIEPM) and of the Italian Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy (SISPM).

Research

Her research, which is based on the investigation of unpublished manuscripts sources, embraces the history of Medieval Aristotelianism, particularly as far as the reception of Aristotle’s natural philosophy is concerned.

In the past few years, she explored the reception of Aristotle’s Meteorology in the Latin West, with a particular stress on the Parisian tradition and its influence on Central and Eastern European universities. In this framework, she produced a complete edition of the first redaction of Oresme’s Questions on Aristotle’s Meteorology and a partial edition of the second redaction of Oresme’s text, as well as of Albert of Saxony’s Questions on Aristotle’s Meteorology. She is currently preparing a critical edition of Radulphus Brito’s Questions on Aristotle’s Meteorology in the framework of the international network Radulphi Britonis Opera omnia, as well as a critical edition of an Italian reworking of Radulphus’ text dating from the first half of the fourteenth century.

In parallel to this research, she is working on the via antiqua in the fifteenth century, and particularly on the works of the Parisian master Johannes Versoris and their dissemination and reworking in Central European universities. Prague University, the first center of dissemination of these works in Central Europe, has a particular relevance for this research.

More recently, she started focusing on the tradition of Pseudo-Aristotle’s Problemata in the Latin West, and particularly on problemata discussed in university commentaries. She is currently preparing a critical edition of the problemata discussed in Blasius of Parma’s and Actaldus of Aversa’s Questions on Aristotle’s Meteorology. In order to gather a network of scholars willing to explore this tradition, she is organizing a series of workshops in collaboration with Sabine Rommevaux, director of SPHère (CNRS, UMR 7219).

The inventory and analysis of manuscript sources lies at the core of her approach and research interests. For this reason, she conducted numerous research stays in European libraries (among which Vatican, Vatican Library; Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale; Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Bibliothèque Mazarine; Krakow, Jagiellonian Library; Wrocław, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka; Erfurt, Amplonian Library; Berlin, Staatsbibliothek; Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek; Prague, Archive of the Metropolitan Chapter, National Library). At the Czech Academy of Sciences, she is currently in charge for the preparation of a new inventory of commentaries on Aristotle in Prague libraries (2022-2025).

Fellowships and awards

Since 2015, she has been awarded several research fellowships and grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Doc.Ch; Early Post Doc Mobility; Post Doc Mobility) and from the Czech Academy of Sciences (Josef Dobrovský). From September 2020 to July 2021, she was resident member at the Swiss Institute in Rome. In 2021, her PhD dissertation was awarded with the Vigener Prize of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Fribourg.

1) A. Panzica, Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de ultima lectura, recensio parisiensis. Study of the Manuscript Tradition and Critical Edition of Books I-II.10 , Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2021 (Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, 32); ISBN: 978-90-04-46140-6; https://brill.com/view/title/59852 .

Review: J. Celeyrette, in Revue des Questions Scientifiques 2022.

2) A. Panzica,De la Lune à la Terre: les débats sur le premier livre des Météorologiques d’ Aristote au Moyen Âge latin (XII^e-XV^e siècles) , forthcoming in the series Studia Artistarum, Brepols.

3) A. Panzica, Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de prima lectura. Study of the Manuscript Tradition and Critical Edition , Brill, Leiden/Boston, Brill, forthcoming.

1) A. Panzica, « Une nouvelle rédaction desQuestions sur les Météorologiques de Nicole Oresme », in Bulletin de Philosophie médiévale (Société Internationale de Philosophie Médiévale), 57 (2015), Turnhout 2016, p. 257-264 ; DOI: 10.1484/J.BPM.5.110808

2) A. Panzica, « L’hypothèse de la cessation des mouvements célestes au XIV^e siècle : Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan et Albert de Saxe », in Vivarium. An international journal for the philosophy and intellectual life of the Middle Ages and Renaissance 56 (2018), Issue 1–2, p. 83–125; DOI: 10.1163/15685349-12341350

3) A. Panzica, « Nicole Oresme à la Faculté des Arts de Paris: LesQuestions sur les Météorologiques », in Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge 84 (2017), Vrin, Paris, p. 7-89 ; DOI: 10.3917/ahdlm.084.0007

4) A. Panzica, « Les Questions sur les Météorologiques du manuscrit Vat. Lat. 4082 : Blaise de Parme, Nicole Oresme et l’Inter omnes impressiones » in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 61 (2019), Brepols, Turnhout, p. 153-182 ; DOI : 10.1484/J.BPM.5.118704

5) A. Panzica, « Albert of Saxony’s Questions on Meteorology: Introduction, Study of the Manuscript Tradition, and Edition of Book I-II.2 », in Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge 86 (2019), p. 231-356 ; DOI : 10.3917/ahdlm.086.0231

6) A. Panzica, « Air and Friction in the Celestial Region: Some Medieval Solutions to the Difficulties of the Aristotelian Theory Concerning the Production of Celestial Heat », in Early Science and Medicine 24/4 (2019), Brill, Leiden/Boston, p. 367-390; DOI: 10.1163/15733823-00244P03

7) A. Panzica, « Commenter les Météorologiques à l’Université de Cracovie : de l’assimilation des modèles parisiens à la naissance d’une tradition polonaise », in Recherches de Philosophie et Théologie Médiévales 87/1 (2020), p. 103-192 ; DOI : 10.2143/RTPM.87.1.0000000

8) A. Panzica, « Henricus Totting de Oyta’s and Nicole Oresme’s Commentaries on Meteorology : Some New Identifications in Eastern Europe » in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 62 (2020), Brepols, Turnhout, p. 195-211; DOI: 10.1484/J.BPM.5.120653

9) A. Panzica, « Un testimone italiano della filosofia naturale di Alberto di Sassonia : i marginalia del codice Fesul. 161 della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze », in Medioevo 45 (2020), p. 310-327 ; ISBN 8893871831

10) A. Panzica, « Commenti ad Aristotele nella biblioteca dell’Istituto Campana a Osimo: Umberto di Preuilly, Rodolfo Brito, Giovanni di Jandun », in Bulletin de Philosophie médiévale 63 (2021), p. 243-269 ; DOI: 10.1484/J.BPM.5.126950

11) D.A. Di Liscia & A. Panzica, « The Works of Nicole Oresme: a Systematic Inventory », in Traditio 77 (2022), Cambridge University Press, forthcoming;

12) A. Panzica, « Un contributo allo studio di Nicola Oresme ed Enrico di Langenstein dai manoscritti vaticani », in Vatican Library Review 1 (2022), forthcoming.

13) A. Panzica, « Lire Aristote en langue vernaculaire : Les Questions sur les Météorologiques du manuscrit Lucca, Biblioteca Statale, ms. 1385 », Recherches de Philosophie et Théologie Médiévales, forthcoming.

A. Panzica, « Fifteenth-century textbooks: John Versoris’s commentaries, their dissemination and reworking in Central and Eastern Europe », in O. Pavlíček (éd.), Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia : Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge , II, forthcoming.

A. Panzica, « An (apparent) exception in the Aristotelian natural philosophy Antiperistasis as action on contrary qualities and its interpretation in the medieval philosophical and medical commentary tradition », in D.A. Di Liscia (éd.), The Concept of Motion in Late Medieval Philosophy, forthcoming.

A. Panzica, « Une tentative de réductionnisme au Moyen Âge : la philosophie de la nature d’Henri de Langenstein, de Paris à Vienne », in M. Brînzei (éd.), The Rise of an Academic Elite: Deans, Masters, and Scribes at the University of Vienna before 1400 , Turnhout (Studia Sententiarum), 2022, 79-124.

A. Panzica, « La transmission de la chaleur solaire : un cas d’action à distance ? Les débats dans la tradition aristotélicienne », in N. Weill-Parot et B. Delaurenti (éds.), L’action à distance au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance, Paris, Éditions Vendémiaire, 2022, forthcoming.

A. Panzica, « Revisiting Manuscript Munich, BSB, Clm 4375: New Identifications of Sentences Commentaries », in A. Petagine et V. Braekman (éds.), Pensées angéliques offertes à Tiziana Suarez-Nani, Basel-Berlin, Schwabe, 2022 forthcoming.

A. Panzica, Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples, La magie naturelle / De magia naturali. L’influence des astres. Édité, traduit et présenté par Jean-Marc Mandosio, in Revue d’Histoire des Sciences 72/2 (2019), Paris, 241-243 ; DOI : 10.3917/rhs.722.0411.

A. Panzica, « Les théologiens face aux astres : compte rendu de Maria Sorokina Les Sphères, les astres et les théologiens. L’influence céleste entre science et foi dans les commentaires des Sentences (v. 1220-v. 1340) », in Revue des Questions Scientifiques 2022, forthcoming.