Abstract

My doctoral thesis mainly consists in a new edition of the Prohemium of the Liber introductorius which has been a desideratum within at least three fields of academic research, namely the history of philosophy, the history of astrology and the history of medieval political thought. As the result of an international PhD programme between the University of Salento in Italy and the University of Cologne in Germany, my project was carried out under the supervision of Alessandra Beccarisi (University of Salento) and Andreas Speer (University of Cologne) and primarily developed over the course of two years spent at the Warburg Institute of the University of London. As appropriate for an international programme, the language of the thesis is English. The edition of the Prohemium is preceded by three large chapters and followed by an appendix, a table of figures and a bibliography divided into four categories (manuscripts, archive sources and printed primary sources up to 1800, critical and modern editions, and secondary sources). The thesis is currently under revision for publication.