The Struggle for Intellectual Freedom: Laura Bassi’s first Lectio Ordinaria
Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Elena Muceni
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/1
Language Italian Pages 39 P. 91-129 File size 269 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2025-001008
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation
click here
Below, you can see the article first page
If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits
FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.
The article provides the edition (transcript of the Latin text and Italian translation) of an academic lecture delivered by Laura Bassi (1711-1778), her first lectio ordinaria, from an autograph manuscript. Laura Bassi’s correspondence makes it possible to establish that this lecture was read after the praelectio (1732), but still early in her career. By relating the two texts, the author forms a hypothesis about the dating of the lecture. The article then offers a contextualization, based mainly on manuscript sources, focusing on the personal, intellectual and academic tensions in the background of the first lectures Bassi was allowed to deliver. On the basis of a comparison of the contents of this lectio ordinaria with the praelectio, the author finally questions some classical historiographical paradigms concerning Bassi’s philosophical profile in 1732, namely her adherence to Newtonianism and her alleged anti-Cartesianism.
Keywords: Laura Bassi, Academic Teaching, Dialectic, Ethics, Cartesianism, Newtonianism.
Elena Muceni, La passione della libertà: la lectio ordinaria di Laura Bassi in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 1/2025, pp 91-129, DOI: 10.3280/SF2025-001008