Cecilia Muratori

Cecilia is the Principal Investigator of NEWWORLD, and Full Professor of the History of Philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Pavia.She was previously Marie Curie Fellowat Ca’ Foscari Università di Venezia, and held research fellowships at I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, the University of Warwick, The Warburg Institute, and LMU Munich, among others. She specialises in the role of mysticism for philosophical speculation (on which she published ‘The First German Philosopher’: The Mysticism of Jacob Böhme as Interpreted by Hegel, Springer 2016), and in the ethical implications of the human/animal distinction (see especially her book Renaissance Vegetarianism: The Philosophical Afterlives of Porphyry’s ‘On Abstinence’, Legenda 2020). She is interested in the curation of exhibitions as spaces for philosophical reflection, and worked with Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden on a series of displays on Jacob Böhme (2017-2020). Together with Mario Meliadò, she co-edits Brill’s Series in Philosophical Historiographies.

Leonardo Graciotti

Leonardo Graciotti is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Università degli Studi di Pavia, where he works on Cecilia Muratori’s NEWWORLD project. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the Università degli Studi di Genova (FINO Convention) and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, with a dissertation on Pietro Pomponazzi’s final, unpublished university course on Aristotle’s De sensu et sensato. In 2025, he held a one-year research fellowship at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (IISF) in Naples. He specialises in Renaissance natural philosophy and its relationship with medicine, especially within the context of Italian universities. His current research focuses on cosmology and ecology in the Renaissance, exploring how ecological concern could take shape within four areas of knowledge: astrology, meteorology, medicine, and cosmography. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Bruniana & Campanelliana. Ricerche filosofiche e materiali storico-testuali. Together with Michele Merlicco, he co-ordinates Renaissance Philosophy Online (RPO), a permanent forum on Renaissance philosophical thought.

Michele Merlicco

Michele Merlicco is a Research Fellow at the University of Pavia, within the ERC project NEWWORLD – Renewing the World: A Philosophical History of Early Modern Ecology. He has carried out research and teaching activities in France (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Germany (Universität Siegen), and Italy (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici; Università di Macerata). His work focuses on the history of Renaissance philosophy and the history of mental illnesses. He is the author of several contributions published in international journals and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Bruniana & Campanelliana.

Enrico Antonini

Enrico Antonini is a PhD student at the Università degli Studi di Pavia within Cecilia Muratori’s ERC Project NEWWORLD. His philosophical interests range from the utopian tradition (in particular, the works of Ernst Bloch) to ecological theory. Following these two lines of thought, his current research focuses on Margaret Cavendish, a 17th-century utopian writer and natural philosopher. The main purpose is to examine how her vitalist and non-anthropocentric materialism can contribute to elaborating a more suitable relationship between ourselves and other living beings.

Luigi Parodi

Luigi Parodi is a PhD student at the Università degli Studi di Pavia (FINO convention), working within Cecilia Muratori’s ERC project NEWWORLD. His main interests corncern the history of modern philosophy and the methodological assumptions and challenges that define it as a discipline. In his PhD project, he investigates early modern utopian literature, exploring its narrative and philosophical dimensions and its connections with ecological and environmental practices. Alongside this, his enduring philosophical passion remains, however, Ludwig Wittgenstein.