Daniele Bonino

PhD candidate - 2nd cohort
Classical Philology/ Greek

Daniele Bonino is a Doctoral Research Associate at the DFG-Research Training Group 2792 "Autonomy of Heteronomous Texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages" within the Faculty of Philosophy.

He completed his studies at the Università degli Studi di Torino, where he obtained a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Classics.

His interests mostly lie in the reception of Latin and ancient Greek literature in the Italian and Spanish Renaissance – especially in the teaching environment – and in the role the Byzantines intellectuals had in the diffusion of ancient Greek studies among Humanists.

The protagonist of his thesis is a late 15th-century manuscript containing scholarly notes (recollectae) on some ethical and cosmological works of Aristotle, namely Meteorologica, Ethica ad Nicomachum, De Caelo.

Daniele Bonino

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
GRK 2792 (Theologische Fakultät)
Fürstengraben 6
07743 Jena

Research project

The Bolognese manuscript Archiginnasio B 3475 can be a significant witness of the practices used to teach Greek philosophy in late 15th-century Italy. It was compiled by the Italian humanist Pontico Virunio (alias for Ludovico da Ponte, c. 1465-1525) around 1490, as a fair copy of the notes he took during the university lectures of Niccolò Leoniceno (1428-1524), physician and philologist, professor at the University of Ferrara. The course whose topics are reflected in the recollectae was on three works of Aristotle: Meteorologica, De Caelo and Ethica ad Nichomacum – the first two being scientific/cosmological in character and the latter one on ethics. Written in a quite convulse humanistic script, the notes thus reelaborate the three Aristotelian works, on the one hand summarizing them and on the other hand widely expanding their content, with continuous references to various authors, both Greek and Latin, and to some Medieval commentators of Aristotle. This very noticeable stretching and reworking of the content of the three works constitute the main heteronomous aspect of the recollectae, which in turn also take the form of an autonomous commentary on Aristotelian cosmology and ethics.  A critical edition will be made of these notes, joined by a monographic part in which the recollectae of Virunio and the lectures of Leoniceno will be placed in the context of the Humanistic reception of Aristotle, especially in Ferrara.

Curriculum Vitae

Since Jan 2025: Doctoral Research Associate at the DFG Research Training Group 2792 "Autonomy of Heteronomous Texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages", Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Nov 2020 – Apr 2024: Master’s Degree in Classics at the Università degli Studi di Torino

Apr – Jun 2023: Three-months Erasmus Traineeship at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares

Jun – Jul 2021: Two-months Erasmus Traineeship at the Universität Innsbruck

Sep 2017 – Nov 2020: Bachelor’s Degree in Classics at the Università degli Studi di Torino

Presentations

26. Juni 2023 – Transkribus. Una nueva herramienta para la filología. Forschungsseminar „Nuevos aportes a la filología clásica e hispánica“, organisiert von Cilengua und Instituto Universitario de Investigación „Miguel de Cervantes“ (UAH), San Millán de la Cogolla.