Dr. Marianna Zarantonello
Marianna Zarantonello is a research associate at the Asien-Orient Institut at the University of Tübingen since April 2024 and a visiting scholar at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies of the University of Exeter since May 2024 (within the PRIME DAAD programme). Previously she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Medieval Philosophy of the University of Padua and in October 2023 she joined the Asien-Orient-Institut in Tübingen as a Teach@Tübingen fellow. In 2022, she received her doctorate in linguistic, philological and literary sciences from the University of Padua and in Islamic Studies from the University of Zurich (cotutelle de thèse).
Research interests
- Translation movement of the Abbasid period
- Wisdom literature
- Philosophy in the Islamic world
- Mirrors for princes
Publications
(Co-authored) monograph
al-Fārābī, L’Uno e l’unità, Introduzione, testo arabo, traduzione e commento di C. Martini Bonadeo con S. Abram, L. Farina, G. Mandolino, M. Zarantonello, Pisa University Press, Pisa 2023 – Series Greco, Arabo, Latino. Le vie del sapere. TESTI 6.
Articles
From Loan to Adaptation. Some remarks on the reception of Homer’s Authority in the falsafa tradition, «Medioevo», XLV, 2020, 53-109.
La mediazione di Aristotele nella ricezione araba della poesia greca. Il caso dell’Etica Nicomachea, in E. Berardi et. al. (ed.), Aristotele citatore o la riappropriazione da parte della filosofia dei discorsi di sapere anteriori /Aristote citateur ou la réappropriation par la philosophie des discours de savoir antérieurs, Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria 2020, 127-158.
Reviews
B. Roggema – A. Treiger (eds.), Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations, Brill, Leiden/Boston 2020, XI + 430 pp., «SGA» 12, 2022, 200-205.
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh, The Philosopher Responds. An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century. Edited by Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz. Translated by Sophia Vasalou and James E. Montgomery. (Library of Arabic Literature.), xli, 300 pp. (Volume One), xi, 324 pp. (Volume Two). New York: New York University Press, 2019, «BSOAS» 84(1), 2021, 163-165.