Donato VERARDI

Position
Research Grant Holder
E-mail
donato.verardi@unive.it
Website
www.unive.it/people/donato.verardi (personal record)
Office
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.fbc

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Donato Verardi (PhD) is a historian of philosophy and science with a specialization in the relationship between magic and modern science.

His recent work has considered presentations of Aristotle as a magus as well as the role of magic, technology, and material culture at the dawn of the modern world.

He is the author of La Scienza e i Segreti della Natura a Napoli nel Rinascimento (Firenze University Press 2018), the editor of Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe. Philosophers, experimenters and wonderworkers (Bloomsbury 2023), and the co-editor, with Rebekah Compton, of Magical Materials in Renaissance philosophy, Literature, and Art (Agorà & Co. 2022). 

He is Series Editor of The Anthem Impact in History of Natural Magic (Anthem Press, London - New York - Melbourne- Delhi) and Editor in Chief of the academic journal Arcana Naturae (included in the ANVUR list of A Class Journals: Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, and in the ANVUR list of Scientific Journals for area 11).