Arianna Brunori

Arianna Brunori (1993, Italy) has a doctorate from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. In the course of her career she has made research visits to Paris, Oxford, Princeton, Cologne, Jerusalem and Naples. More recently, she has held fellowships at the American Academy in Rome, Villa I Tatti (Harvard University), and the Warburg Institute in London. Her research focuses on the notions of fault and will in late medieval thought, the reformulation of the hylomorphic paradigm between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, and the links between alchemy and the visual arts. Her first book, Imputazione e colpa. L’invenzione della volontà (“Imputation and Fault: The Invention of Will”) was published by Quodlibet in 2024.

Her residency project is devoted to writing a book exploring the relationship between alchemy and the visual arts between the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Her aim is to shed new light by highlighting the philosophical implications of this interaction and questioning the often fragile and shifting distinction between creation and imitation in the Renaissance.