Academic Research

Matteo collaborates with two research groups: the 'Philosophy as a Way of Life' research group of the Pontificia Università Gregoriana of Rome, and the 'Art of Living' research group of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy (Ifilnova) of Lisbon, which he visited in 2022 with a Deakin International Fieldwork Grant.  He is also a collaborator for the exploratory project “Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Ancient Model, a Contemporary Approach” led by Dr. Marta Faustino at the same institute.

In his doctoral research, he worked on Aristotle’s lost Protrepticus and its reception in the Latin Christian tradition with the aim of shedding new light on the ancient notion of philosophy as a way of life and its history. Matteo is currently preparing a postdoctoral research proposal on the notion of 'intellectual felicity' in the Latin Averroists that were active in the XIII and XIV centuries in Paris and Bologna and its legacy in Italian vernacular literature and philosophy, especially, in Dante Alighieri's works. For this reason, he is also a member of the Societas Artistarum (Association pour la recherche sur la faculté des arts).