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Books by Michele Trizio

"Vie per Bisanzio" è l'evocazione di molteplici percorsi e approcci al mondo bizantino: storia, l... more "Vie per Bisanzio" è l'evocazione di molteplici percorsi e approcci al mondo bizantino: storia, letteratura, arte, archeologia, filologia, paleografia, filosofia, teologia. Una diversità poliedrica che rappresenta la ricchezza e la vitalità odierne della tradizione degli studi bizantini in Italia. "Vie per Bisanzio" sta a indicare i diversi itinerari seguiti: dal mondo classico seguendo il filo della grecità, dalla storia medievale volgendosi a Oriente, dalle letterature slave, partendo dalla filosofia e teologia russe moderne e contemporanee per andare a ritroso. Emerge una volta di più l'immagine di Bisanzio quale "Impero di mezzo", luogo-cerniera di scambi e di irradiazioni, non solo all'interno di quello che è stato felicemente indicato come Commonwealth bizantino, ma ben oltre, in Occidente, nel Nord, in Oriente. Dal 25 al 28 di novembre 2009 si tenne a Venezia un Congresso intitolato "Vie per Bisanzio", VII Convegno dell'Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini (AISB) e al contempo occasione di incontro della bizantinistica italiana in Italia e all'estero. I due volumi contengono i risultati dei lavori di quelle giornate.

Papers by Michele Trizio

Études byzantines et post-byzantines Nouvelle série, tome V (XII), 2023

Abstract: Taking a cue from a recent paper that dismisses Byzantine philosophers as mere scholars... more Abstract: Taking a cue from a recent paper that dismisses Byzantine
philosophers as mere scholars incapable of producing innovations, this paper
suggests that Byzantine intellectuals from the eleventh to twelfth-century
regarded scholarship as a spiritual endeavour that leads to a blessed lifestyle.
An analysis of four significant figures in Byzantine intellectual life makes
it clear that scholarship and paideia should not be disregarded as tokens
for merely antiquarian interest in antiquity but rather as tools for achieving
perfection in this life. This special status of perfection is often characterised
as an intermediate between an upper and lower boundary, to be identified
with philosophy and rhetoric. Finally, the paper locates the self-representation strategy of the Byzantine intellectuals within the broader picture of European
intellectual life in the Middle Ages.

Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2022

Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval, 2023

This paper explores the similarities between a crucial passage in Robert Grosseteste's commentary... more This paper explores the similarities between a crucial passage in Robert Grosseteste's commentary on Posterior Analytics and the commentary on Nicomachean Ethics 6 written by the Byzantine commentator Eustratius of Nicaea (d. ca. 1120). According to the present author, Eustratius may be the direct source of Grosseteste's epistemology and concept formation theory in the commentary. A tentative revision of the chronology of Grosseteste's Greek studies may be necessary to account for the relationship between the two texts.

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This paper surveys Barlaam the Calabrian's Platonizing attitude in his clash with Gregory Palamas... more This paper surveys Barlaam the Calabrian's Platonizing attitude in his clash with Gregory Palamas. Particular emphasis goes on Barlaam's lost works as transmitted by Palamas. The paper updates and corrects my "Una è la sapienza che pervade ogni cosa." La sapienza profana nell'opera perduta di Barlaam Calabro, in A. Rigo/M. Trizio/P. Ermilov (eds.), Byzantine Theology and Its Philosophical Background, Turnhout 2011, 108-139.

Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts, 12th–15th Centuries, 2022

When compared with the Late-Antique, Medieval Latin, and Arabic commentary traditions, the Byzant... more When compared with the Late-Antique, Medieval Latin, and Arabic commentary traditions, the Byzantine commentary tradition on Aristotle's work appears understudied and undervalued. Yet, the few available studies on this topic suggest the fruitfulness of a thorough investigation of Byzantine philosophical commentaries and the different authorial practices involved in the Byzantine exegesis of Aristotle. In my paper, I will investigate 12th c. edited and unedited material in order to account for the vast array of interpretive strategies and approaches displayed by the Byzantine commentators of this period.

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 2

A paper on the authorship of the Refutatio Procli attributed to Procopius of Gaza and Nicholas of... more A paper on the authorship of the Refutatio Procli attributed to Procopius of Gaza and Nicholas of Methone

The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, 2021

The eleventh to twelfth-century theologian and philosopher Eustratios of Nicaea authored commenta... more The eleventh to twelfth-century theologian and philosopher Eustratios of Nicaea authored commentaries on books 1 and 6 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. In this paper I show the extent to which Eustratios is indebted to the ancient commentary tradition as well as how he departed from the earlier model of commentary in order to answer contemporary questions of meaning. In order to do so I discuss Eustratios' hermeneutics and textual approach, its dependence upon the ancient model and its novelties in detail. I argue that Eustratios provided a fundamental contribution to the formation of a specifically Byzantine commentary tradition. Finally, this paper also investigates the historical circumstances of Eustratios' career as a commentator and highlights how Eustratios' literary and philosophical output reflects on his patron, the princess and historian Anna komnena.

Bibliophilos. Books and Learning in the Byzantine World, 2021

The 'master of rhetors' (μαΐστωρ τῶν ῥητώρων) was one of the didaskaloi of the so-called Patriarc... more The 'master of rhetors' (μαΐστωρ τῶν ῥητώρων) was one of the didaskaloi of the so-called Patriarchal Academy in Constantinople. This paper demonstrates on the basis of manuscript evidences that the 11th - 12th- century theologian and commentator Eustratios of Nicaea actually held this post.

La « collection philosophique » face à l’histoire, Cisam, Spoleto, 2020

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 2 Translations and Acculturations, 2020

Quaestio, 2006

A comprehensive reconstruction of Gregory Palamas' appropriation of Augustine's theology.

The Brill Companion to the Reception of Socrates, 2019

A Neoplatonic Refutation of Islam from the Time of the Komnenoi, in A. Speer (ed.), 37. Kölner Mediaevistentagung 14.-17. September 2010: Knotenpunkt Byzanz: Wissensformen und kulturelle Wechselbeziehungen, Berlin-New York , 2012

Byzantine interpretations of NE 6.5 J. Fink (ed.), Phantasia in Aristotle's Ethics Reception in the Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin Traditions, Bloomsbury, 2018

Études byzantines et post-byzantines Nouvelle série, tome V (XII), 2023

Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2022

Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval, 2023

, 2023

Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts, 12th–15th Centuries, 2022

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 2

The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, 2021

Bibliophilos. Books and Learning in the Byzantine World, 2021

La « collection philosophique » face à l’histoire, Cisam, Spoleto, 2020

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 2 Translations and Acculturations, 2020

Quaestio, 2006

A comprehensive reconstruction of Gregory Palamas' appropriation of Augustine's theology.

The Brill Companion to the Reception of Socrates, 2019

Byzantine interpretations of NE 6.5 J. Fink (ed.), Phantasia in Aristotle's Ethics Reception in the Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin Traditions, Bloomsbury, 2018

The treatises known as Parva naturalia play an important role in Byzantine culture and education.... more The treatises known as Parva naturalia play an important role in Byzantine culture and education. Contrary to what happened in late antiquity, the most important Byzantine commentators devoted great attention to these texts. This probably reflects the Byzantine understanding of Aristotle's natural philosophy as a reliable account of nature and physiology. More importantly, since there are no late-antique commentaries on the Parva naturalia, the Byzantine commentators were eager to excerpt from all sort of available material that could be helpful for composing an exegesis on these Aristotelian treatises. The way they assembled this material is of greatest interest and justifies a thorough study of the Byzantine commentary tradition.

in Kaldellis/Siniossoglou, The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium (forthcoming), 2017

A seminar for specialists given at the University of Harvard on april 11th 2012.

Conference: Le stelle, i regni, le credenze, le masse. Astrologia politica nel mediterraneo tra M... more Conference: Le stelle, i regni, le credenze, le masse. Astrologia politica nel mediterraneo tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, Bari 08-10/06/2016

By examining the case of some relevant intellectuals of the Early Komnenian period, the present c... more By examining the case of some relevant intellectuals of the Early Komnenian period, the present contribution argues that the so-called 11th and 12th c. "Proklos-Renaissance" should be qualified and investigated according to the different modulations of style and target audiences of the 11th and 12th c. philosophical literature. Accordingly, in the conclusions this paper also provides evidence demonstrating that later Byzantine scholars would grant the appropriation of Proclus by intellectuals of this period almost the status of authentic "Neoplatonic" source material.

The program of the ICBS 2016 Round Table on "Philosophers and Philosophical Books In Byzantium"