Marco Toste

ACADEMIC PREPARATION

1997: B.A. in Philosophy, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto , Portugal .

1998: Post Graduate Program in Bioethics, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Centro Regional do Porto , Portugal.

2001: “Diplôme Européen d’Études Médiévales of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts D’Études Médiévales” (F.I.D.E.M.), in Rome .

2002: M.A. in Medieval Philosophy, at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto , Portugal , with the thesis “Funções e estratégias nos escritos proféticos do Pe. António Vieira”, under the direction of Prof. Cândida Pacheco.

2003-present: Doctoral Studies at the Université de Fribourg , Switzerland , with the dissertation “The ‘Quaestiones super libros Politicorum’ by Peter of Auvergne. Critical Edition and Interpretative Study”, under the direction of Prof. Christoph Flüeler

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2000-2001: Assistant of research in the Gabinete de Filosofia Medieval ( Oporto University ).

2002: Member of the editorial staff of C.A.L.M.A. (“Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi”) in Florence .

CONFERENCES

1. “A tematização da paz em autores dos séculos XII e XIV”, Oporto , the 24th October 2003 .

2. “A recepção da ‘Política’ de Aristóteles na Faculdade de Artes: a política como ciência” , Oporto , the 2nd April 2004 , in the cicle of conferences “Ética e política no pensamento medieval”, organised by the Gabinete de Filosofia Medieval.

3. “Thomas Aquinas on Law and his Influence in Some Medieval Authors”, with Lidia Lanza, Nida ( Lithuania ), the 14th July 2004 , in “The 11th St. Thomas Aquinas Summer School”.

4. “La loi dans les ‘Quaestiones super libros Politicorum’ de Pierre d’Auvergne”, Fribourg, the 22nd Spetember 2004, in the “2. Graduiertenkurs des Mediävistischen Instituts der Unversität Freiburg (Die Vermittlung von Wissen und Nomen im Mittelalter)”.

5. “‘ Ubi est politia, leges principantur’. O direito na Faculdade das Artes de Paris”, Oporto , the 10th December 2004 .

6. “The Virtue of Friendship. The Reception of Books VIII and IX of the ‘Nicomachean Ethics’ in the Middle Ages”, in Nijmegen , The Netherlands, the 27th January 2006 , in the conference “Virtue Ethics in the Middle Ages: Commentaries on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, 1200-1500”, organized by Radboud University Nijmegen.

7. Participation and co-organization of the workshop “Political Science between Middle Ages and Modern Times”, Fribourg University , 5-6 September 2006, in which the articles 3 and 4 (cf. Publications) were presented and discussed.

8. “Moral and Political Virtues in the Medieval Reception of Aristotle’s ‘Politics’”, in Fribourg University , the 13th November 2006 .

9. “As Questões de Pedro de Alvérnia sobre a ‘Política’ de Aristóteles”, in Oporto University , in the conference Laboratorium philosophiae Medii Aevi 2007: Teses de Filosofia Medieval em curso no GFM/FLUP, the 5th January 2007

10. “The Italian Commentary Tradition on the ‘Politics’ (XIV-XVI centuries)”, in “The Diffusion of Renaissance Aristotelianism: Latin, the Vernacular, and Art in the Classical Tradition”. Workshop held at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, The University of Warwick’s Centre in Venice (17-18 September 2007)

11. “Specula principum Lusitaniae. The Importance of Aristotle’s Practical Works”, in “Universality of Reason. Plurality of Philosophies in the Middle Ages”. XII International Congress of Medieval Philosophy ( Palermo , 16-22 September 2007), organized by the “Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale” (S.I.E.P.M.)

PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES

1. “Autores portugueses na ‘Bibliotheca carmelitana’ de Cosme de Villiers”, Mediaevalia. Textos e Estudos 20 (2001), 107-161.

2. “‘Nobiles, optimi viri, philosophi’. The Role of the Philosopher in the Political Community at the Faculty of Arts in Paris in the Late Thirteenth Century” in “Itinéraires de la raison. Études de philosophie médiévale offertes à Maria Cândida Pacheco”, ed. by José Francisco Meirinhos, Louvain-la-Neuve: F.I.D.E.M., 2005, pp. 269-308

3. “ Utrum felix indigeat amicis. The Reception of the Aristotelian Theory of Friendship at the Arts Faculty of Paris”, in István Bejczy (ed.), “Virtue Ethics in the Middle Ages: Commentaries on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, 1200-1500”, Leiden: Brill, 2007, pp. 173-195.

4. “ Virtue and the City: The Virtues of the Ruler and the Citizen in the Medieval Reception of the Politics”, in István P. Bejczy and Cary J. Nederman (eds.), “Princely Virtues in the Middle Ages, 1200-1500”, (Disputatio 9), Turnhout: Brepols, 2007, pp. 75-100.

5. “ L’optimus vir e la legge nei commenti parigini all’‘Etica’ e alla ‘Politica’”. in “Mediaevalia. Textos e Estudos” 24 (2005) [forthcoming].

ENTRIES IN ENCYCLOPEDIAS

C.A.L.M.A., “Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi”, curantibus Michael Lapidge, Gian Carlo Garfagnini et Claudio Leonardi, adiuvantibus Lidia Lanza – Rosalind Love <…> Marco Toste, I/4, Firenze 2001- :Antonius Haneron; Antonius Laelius; Antonius Lollius de Sancto Geminiano; Antonius Nerlius; Antonius Parmensis; Antonius Marcis de Sancto Geminiano; Antonius Michaelis de Sancto Geminiano; Antonius de Scarperia (with José Meirinhos and Lidia Lanza); Antonius Ser Salvi de Sancto Geminiano; Antonius Siculus Biaxander (with Chiara Giunti); Antonius Trombetta; Athanasius Calcheopylus; Archimatthaeus; Arnaldus Albertini (with José Santos Paz); Arnaldus de Villanova (with José Santos Paz and Francesco Santi); Arnolphus de Ghestelle; Armengaudus Blasius (with José Francisco Meirinhos); Augustinus Bonfranciscus Ariminensis; Augustinus de Favaronibus de Roma; Augustinus Niphus (with Lidia Lanza).

C.A.L.M.A. <…> I/5, Firenze 2002: Augustinus Olomucensis; Augustinus Philippus Florentinus; Augustinus Ritius; Augustinus Rubeus Parmensis; Augustinus Perez de Olivan; Augustinus Tactensis; Augustinus Triumphus de Ancona; Aurelius Ab Aquapendente; Aurelius Serenus; Balthasar del Rio; Balthasar Tacco; Baptista Casalius; Baptista Piasius; Baptista Pius Bononiensis; Baptista de Sancto Petro.

C.A.L.M.A. <…> I/6, Firenze 2003: Bartholomaeus de Bruges; Bartholomaeus Catany; Bartholomaeus Flexerii.

C.A.L.M.A. <…> II/1, Firenze 2004: Bartholomaeus de Jaslo; Bartholomaeus Mates; Bartholomaeus de Messana; Bartholomaeus Parmensis; Bartholomaeus Peyroni; Bartholomaeus de Reno; Bartholomaeus Salernitanus; Bartholomaeus de Varignana.

C.A.L.M.A. <…> II/2, Firenze 2005: Belisarius Acquaviva Aragoneus; Baxianus de Boldone de Vaude; Bazianus; Benedictus XIII Avenionensis papa; Benedictus de Mallorca; Benedictus Morer de Torla.

“The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages”, ed. Robert E. Bjork, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 [forthcoming]: Augustinus Triumphus of Ancona; Bernard of Auvergne; Blasius of Parma; Bradwardine, Thomas; Gerard of Abbeville; Hannibaldus de Hannibaldis; James of Douais; James of Venice; Konrad von Megenberg; Martin of Dacia (Denmark); Michael of Ephesus; Nicholas of Autrecourt; Peter Dubois; Pontano, Giovanni; Ralph Brito.

REVIEWS

1. José Chabás–Bernard R. Goldstein, “Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula : Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print” (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 90/2, 2000), appeared in: Mediaevalia. Textos e Estudos 20 (2001) 185-189. 

2. Mariano Álvarez Gómez– João Maria André (eds.), “Coincidência dos opostos e concordância. Caminhos do Pensamento em Nicolau de Cusa. Actas do congresso internacional realizado em Coimbra e Salamanca nos dias 5 a 9 de Novembro de 2001”, Lisboa-Salamanca 2001, appeared in: Mediaevalia. Textos e Estudos 21 (2002) 175-181.