Dr Roberto Casazza

Roberto Casazza’s (1968-) early university education at Universidad de Buenos Aires was in Classics and Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. He earned an MA on Combined Renaissance Studies from the University of London (UK), and also holds a PhD in Humanities from Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina), where he is currently Professor of History of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy. From 2016 to the present, he has developed, surveying collections from the Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno (Buenos Aires), the Biblioteca Argentina (Rosario), the Biblioteca Clásica Dr. Ricardo Caballero (Rosario), the McGill University Library (Montreal), and the Dibner Library of the Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC), a research program on incunabula and early printed books.

He has conducted research into many aspects of the Classical Tradition, generally adopting a Warburgian approach, and focusing on the History of Cosmology and the History of Book and Libraries. He is author of many scholar publications and co-author of El sistema astronómico de Aristóteles – Una interpretación (Buenos Aires, 2015), a book also published in an English translation by Brill in 2023.

Roberto Casazza also works, on commission from foreign antiquarians, as a freelance researcher and cataloguer of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and books.

casazza.roberto@gmail.com