Faculty
Antonio Donato
Philosophy Department
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
D.Phil in Philosophy, Oxford University
Office: Powdermaker Hall 350N
Phone: 718-997-5270
antonio.donato@qc.cuny.edu
Area of expertise: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.
Books
- Ludovico Agostini’s “Imaginary Republic.” Utopia in the Italian Renaissance (submission date December 2021)
- Boezio. Un pensatore tardoantico e il suo mondo, (Roma: Carocci Editore, 2021)
- Italian Renaissance Utopias: Doni, Patrizi, and Zuccolo, (Cham: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2019)
- Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy as a Product of Late Antiquity (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013)
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Textbooks
- Introduction to Philosophy(Great River Learning, 2019)
Articles
- Forgetfulness and Misology in Boethius’ ‘Consolation of Philosophy’, «British Journal of the History of Philosophy» 21 (2013): 463-485
- Winner of Rogers Prize for the best article published in the «British Journal of the History of Philosophy» in 2013
- Self-examination and Consolation in Boethius’ ‘Consolation of Philosophy’, «Classical World» 106 (2013): 397-430
- Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy and the Greco-Roman Consolatory Tradition, «Traditio» 67 (2012): 1-42
- Reprinted in Trudeau L. J. (ed.), Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Gale Literature Collections, Vol. 181, (New York: Layman Poupard Publishing, 2017), 115-139
- Aquinas’ Theory of Happiness and its Greek, Byzantine, Latin and Arabic Sources, «Al-Masaq» 18 (2006): 161-189
- The Role of Focus in Aquinas’ Doctrine of Analogy, «Proceedings of American Catholic Philosophical Association» 77 (2004): 285-297
- Il ruolo dell’analogia di attribuzione e di proporzionalità nella dottrina dell’essere di Tommaso, «Medioevo» 28 (2003): 120-145
- Le formulazioni di Aristotele e Tommaso d’Aquino del principio di non contraddizione, «Sensus Communis» 4 (2003): 60-70
Chapters in Books
- Intellectual Ascent and Experience in Dante’s “Divine Comedy” in Doukhan A. Malagon A. (eds), The Redemption of Feeling, (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019), 39-52
- (with Jaffe-Berg E.) Philosophy and Social Theory in Enders J., Coletti T., Symes C., and Sebastian J. (eds), A Cultural History of Tragedy: Middle Ages,(London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), 65-80
- Forgetfulness and Human Behavior in Boethius’ ‘Consolation of Philosophy’ in De Anna G. (ed), Willing the Good: Empirical Challenges to the Explanation of Human Behavior, (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), 23-39
- The End of Human Nature in Aquinas, in Virtue’s End: God in the Moral Philosophy of Aristotle and Aquinas, Di Blasi F., Hochschild J. and Langan J. (eds.), (South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2008), 27-43
Book Reviews
- Review of Andrew Hicks, Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), «Bryn Mawr Classical Review», 2017.07.41
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2017/2017-07-41.html - Review of Futre Pinheiro M. P. and Montiglio S. (eds.), Philosophy and the Ancient Novel. Ancient Narrative Supplementum 20. (Groningen: Barkhuis: Groningen University Library, 2015), «Bryn Mawr Classical Review» 2016.05.37
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2016/2016-05-37.html - Review of Blackwood S., The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), «The Medieval Journal» 6 (2016): 137-140
- Review of Bartsch S. and Wray D. (eds.), Seneca and the Self (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), «Foucault Studies» 11 (2011): 200-205
- Review of Sellars J., The Art of Living, (London/Duckworth: Bristol Classical Press, 2009), «Foucault Studies» 9 (2010): 216-220
- Review of Hadot P., The Present Alone is Our Happiness, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009), « Foucault Studies» 7 (2009): 164-169
- Review of Frank J., A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics, (Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press), «Review of Politics» 68 (2006): 132-134