Emanuele Rovati
Büro RAG-204
Seminar für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie der Antike, des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit
Rämistrasse 68
CH-8001 Zürich

emanuele.rovati@uzh.ch

2021–: PhD student in Medieval Latin Philology, University of Zurich
Thesis: The Early Western Reception of Pseudo-Ptolemy’s 'Centiloquium' and Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf's 'Commentary' (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann)
The project is funded by the SNSF (Doc.CH grant no. 203856)
2023–2024: research guest at The Warburg Institute (SAS London), the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS Paris), and the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project (BAdW Munich)
2021: MA degree, University of Zurich 
2018–2020: student assistant, Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus, BAdW Munich
2016–2018, 2020: student assistant and teaching tutor in Greek Philology, Arabic Studies, and Medieval Latin Studies, University of Zurich
2018–2019: exchange student, LMU Munich
2018: BA degree, University of Zurich

History of astrology, astrological medicine, and astral magic
Arabic-into-Latin translators
Ancient and medieval biographies of Greek scholars
Textual criticism, especially of texts with open, massive and/or multilingual transmission

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

‘Original and Revised Translations by John of Seville: The Case of Māshāʾallāh’s «Epistola de rebus eclipsium».’ Filologia Mediolatina 31 (2024), 72 pp. (accepted).

‘Origin and Versions of Astronomia Ypocratis.’ Galenos. Rivista di filologia dei testi medici antichi 14 (2020), pp. 61–89.

‘Die «Iatromathematika» des Hermes Trismegistos: Einleitung, Edition, Übersetzung.’ Technai. An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology 9 (2018), pp. 9–132.

Articles in edited volumes

(with Christoph Riedweg) ‘Zur Vorrede der Abhandlung über Leben, Testament und Werke des Aristoteles des ‚fremden‘ Ptolemaios’. In Urs Gösken, Patric Schaerer, Roman Seidel, James Weaver and Thomas Würtz (eds.), Mobilität des Denkens. Ideen-Geschichte(n) in und um die islamische Welt, Leiden: Brill, 2024, c. 35 pp. (accepted).

‘Alcune tracce degli scritti filosofici di Abū Bakr al-Rāzī nel «Dialogus» di Petrus Alfonsi.’  In Estrella Pérez Rodríguez and Alberto Alonso Guardo (eds.), La latinidad medieval. Estudios hispánicos 2022, Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2023, pp. 519–538.

Reviews

‘Review of Agata Calcagno (ed.), ‘El libro delle Cento Parole di Ptholommeo.’ Saggio di edizione critica del volgarizzamento fiorentino del ‘Centiloquium’ pseudo-tolemaico and of Michele Rinaldi (ed.), ‘El Libro delle Cento Parole di Ptholommeo.’ Volgarizzamento inedito del ‘Centiloquium’ pseudo-tolemaico.’ Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 57(3) (2022), pp. 513–519.

‘Review of Paula Caballero Sánchez, El Comentario de Juan Pediásimo a los “Cuerpos Celestes” de Cleomedes: Edición crítica, traducción y estudio de la transmisión.’ Byzantinische Zeitschrift 114(3) (2021), pp. 1408–1412.

Online publications

5 transcriptions, 15 work entries and 55 manuscript descriptions for the Arabic section of the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus database (https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/works_arabic), 2019–2024.
 

‘Une source originale pour une cosmogonie originale: Petrus Alfonsi et Abū Bakr al-Rāzī.’ Seminaire du Pôle Quadrivium ‘Le monde et ses merveilles : cosmologie, géographie et nature au Moyen Âge entre Orient et Occident’. Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, Orléans, 19.01.2024.

‘Editing Plato of Tivoli’s Translation of Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium.’ Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus Annual Workshop. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, 12.12.2023.

‘Il traduttore e i manoscritti degli altri traduttori. Interazioni tra le versioni medievali del Centiloquium pseudotolemaico.’ Il traduttore e i suoi manoscritti. XXVI Convegno annuale della Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino. SISMEL, Firenze, 31.03.2023.

‘The Anonymous Commentary on Kitāb al-Thamara in MS Florence, BML, Or. 94.’ Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus Annual Workshop. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, 14.12.2022.

‘Die philosophischen Schriften des Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (Rhazes) in der lateinischen Überlieferung.’ Symposium der Jungen Zürcher Mediävistik. University of Zurich, 03.11.2022.

‘Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (Rhazes), una fonte della cosmogonia di Petrus Alfonsi.’ VIII Congreso Internacional de Latín Medieval Hispánico. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Valladolid, 15.07.2022.

‘Ps.-Plutarch’s Placita in Arabic: The Example of Some Empedoclean doxai in Book 5.’ Workshop Ancient Doxography and Its Transmission: Working on Aëtius’ ‘Placita philosophorum’. Department of Greek and Latin Philology, University of Zurich, 22.06.2022.

‘Glossierte Arbeitsexemplare edieren: Das Centiloquium des Pseudo-Ptolemaios.’ Invited talk in the ‘Spezialkurs’ Glossen edieren by Prof. Dr. Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann. Department of Greek and Latin Philology, University of Zurich, 28.02.2022.

‘Gerhard von Cremona und das Centiloquium des Pseudo-Ptolemaios.’ Mittellateinische Werkstattgespräche der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Lateinisches Mittelalter (AGLMA). Department of Greek and Latin Philology, University of Zurich, 28.01.2022.

‘Plato of Tivoli’s Translation of the Centiloquium and Its Two Versions.’ Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus Annual Workshop. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, 09.12.2021.

‘Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium and Its Transmission.’ Symposium The Ancient and Medieval Ptolemy. 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Prague, 26.07.2021.

‘The Project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus.’ Invited talk in the B.A. course Ancient Digital Science by Dr. Orly Lewis. Department of Classics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 08.06.2021.

‘Kitāb al-Thamara, Tetrabiblos, De cometis, De ymaginibus.’ Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus Annual Workshop. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, 03.12.2020.

‘Das Corpus der Aristoteles-Viten: Perspektiven einer neuen kritischen Ausgabe und Sortierung der Textausschnitte.’ Research Colloquium of the Department of Greek and Latin Philology. University of Zurich, 09.03.2020.

‘The Transmission of Kitāb al-Thamara and Its Commentaries.’ Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus Annual Workshop. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, 24.11.2019.

‘Origin and Recensions of Astronomia Ypocratis.’ Settimo seminario internazionale sulla tradizione indiretta dei testi medici greci. Interdisciplinary research centre ‘Forms of Knowledge in the Ancient World’, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Frascati, 25.10.2019.

‘Isaak Argyros and the Transmission of the Exposition of the Persian Tables.’ Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus & Alfonsine Astronomy Workshop on Pre-Modern Astronomical and Astrological Data in Tabular Form: Storage, Edition and Mathematical Analysis. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, 19.11.2018.

Spring 2023: Warum arabisches Wissen? Apologien und Kritiken des Übersetzens (BA/MA Medieval Latin reading course, University of Zurich)

Fall 2016, Fall 2017–Spring 2018: four Tutorate in Greek Philology and Arabic Studies (University of Zurich)
 

2021: ZAZH (Zentrum für Altertumswissenschaften Zürich) award for the best MA thesis in Classics

2017 and 2019: three term awards (Semesterpreis) of the University of Zurich for various theses and term papers
 

Research associate, project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich)

Member, Mediävistenverband

Member, Schweizer Vereinigung für Altertumswissenschaft