Phd in PHILOSOPHY

email: candida.carella@uniroma1.it
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She holds a PhD and previously served as a research fellow at the former "Department of Historical-Philosophical and Pedagogical Research" at Sapienza University.
Since 2008, she has held a permanent position as a researcher at the Department of Philosophy at Sapienza (formerly academic field M-FIL/06, now PHIL-05/A); she teaches "History of Modern Philosophy" within the Philosophy degree program, is a member of the Philosophy PhD faculty, and serves as an editor for the journal *Bruniana & Campanelliana* (edited by Eugenio Canone and Guido Giglioni). She is also a member of the Italian Society for the History of Science (SISS).
Regarding the Sapienza during the early modern period—specifically looking back to the 16th century—he has identified previously unpublished archival documents and two valuable philosophical manuscripts by Girolamo Pontano, a physician, *protomedico* (chief medical officer), and philosophy teacher at the university. He has reconstructed the intellectual biography of Joseph Cincius—a physician and expert in medicinal plants (*semplicista*) at the Sapienza who had previously been overlooked, despite being a key figure in the cultural life of Farnese-era Rome—and has established a teacher-student lineage for philosophy instruction at the university based on unpublished documents and texts that had never before been examined. The research findings have been published in the article "Lo Studium Urbis tra il 'Circolo dei savii' del 1539 e il De recta studiorum ratione di Girolamo Pontano," appearing in *Materia Giudaica* (2023, issues 1–2; released by the publisher in January 2025).
Research on Giordano Bruno has yielded original findings (2025) regarding his pre-monastic education, the textual hermeneutics of the *Spaccio*, and the reception of his work in Leipzig during the 1590s; these and other research outcomes have been incorporated into the monograph titled *Giordano Bruno "homo universale": Biografia e filosofia* (Agorà, Sarzana-Lugano, 2026). The newly published volume also offers a methodological guide and a critical re-examination of key moments in Bruno's intellectual biography.
Some of the 2025 research findings—specifically those concerning the "Sarnese" figure as a commentator on Simplicius and the catasterism of Saint Dominic into the star Sirius—were previously presented in two articles published in issues 2025-1 and 2025-2 of *Bruniana & Campanelliana*.