Dr. Giovanni Lasorella

• since 2024 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Thomas-Institut (University of Cologne) 
  to work as a curator of the digital edition of Durandus’ Commentary on the Sentences for the Digital Durandus Research Portal.
• 2021-2024 PhD with the Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf (Germany). 
  Doctoral thesis: "The Importance of Being Unoriginal: John Picard of Lichtenberg and his Quaestiones”. 
  Transcription of the manuscripts, collation of the text, research of the sources and historical-doctrinal study of the Quaestiones attributed to Johannes Picardi de Lichtenberg. 
  Thesis supervisors: Prof. Dr. Fiorella Retucci / Prof. Dr. Dr.hc Andreas Speer. Final Mark: Summa cum laude (0,0).
• 2021-2024 Mitarbeiter at the Thomas-Institut (University of Cologne) 
  to work on the digital page layout design of volumes edited and published within the “Durandus-Edition” and “Thomas of York-Edtion” projects.
• 2020 University employee and tutor teaching the course “Cultural Anthropology” (SSD Code: M-DEA/01) at “La Scuola Universitaria” of Taranto (Italy).
• 2019-2020 Mitarbeiter at the Thomas-Institut (University of Cologne) to work on the common passages between the Expositionem Theologicam Procli of Berthold of Moosburg and the Sapientiale of Thomas of York
• 2018-2019 M.A. Philosophical Sciences (double degree), Università del Salento (Lecce, Italy) - Universität zu Köln (Köln, Germany).
  Master thesis: "Berthold of Moosburg: the 14th century Neoplatonic thought on Elementatio Theologica" (Degree mark: 110/110 e lode)
• 2019 Mitarbeiter at the Thomas-Institut (University of Cologne) to take care of the digital design of the medieval texts of Durando di San Porciano and to edit the Tabula Contentorum In Expositionem Theologicam Procli of Berthold of Moosburg
• 2017 B.A. Philosophy, Università del Salento, Lecce (Italy)
  Bachelor thesis: "Melisso di Samo: una rivalutazione storico-critica" (Degree mark: 110/110 e lode)
• 2015 Collaboration with the Thomas-Institut (University of Cologne) for transcription and collation of manuscripts of Durando of San Porciano's project research

• Greek Eleatic philosophy, in particular the Fragments of Melissus of Samos and Parmenides
• Greek Neoplatonic philosophy, in particular Proclus and his Elements of Theology
• 14th century German Dominican theology, in particular Berthold of Moosburg and his work: the Expositio super Elementationem theologicam Procli

• „John Picard of Lichtenberg and the Transmission of the Thomistic Ideas: Beyond a German Sonderweg“, 9th International Congress Sociedad de FilosofÌa Medieval ‚Transmission and Interpretation of Knowledge: From Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period‘, Universidad de Córdoba, 02. bis 05. Dezember 2025.
• „Liminal Spaces between Oxford and Cologne: John Dymsdale and John Picard on Prime and Proximate Matter“, Internationales Kolloquium ‚Philosophy in Medieval Manuscripts‘, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Programa de PÛs-GraduaÁ„o em Letras, 26. bis 28. November 2025.
• „Cologne between Oxford and Paris: The Quaestiones of John Picard of Lichtenberg”, Kolloquium ‚History of Philosophy Works-in-Progress Luncheon‘, University of Notre Dame, 05. November 2025.
• „Il De aeternitate mundi di Tommaso D’aquino“, mit Fiorella Retucci, Didattica dottorale, Lecce, 23. Oktober 2025.
• „Remixing Traditions: John Picard of Lichtenberg on the Inchoatio Formae”, Doktorandenkolloquium des Thomas-Instituts, Köln, 21. Oktober 2025.
• „John Picard of Lichtenberg and Hervaeus Natalis on the Inchoatio Formae: Providing Philological Order to Metaphysical Chaos”, The XXIX Annual Colloquium of the SIEPM: ‚Chaos and Order in Medieval Philosophy‘, Buenos Aires, 02. bis 04. September 2025.
• Präsentation von „La filosofia dei medievali e la filosofia dei medievisti“ (Autor: Pasquale Porro), MedievaLab, Thomas Institut, Köln, 16. Mai 2024.
• "Were Medieval Thinkers Historians of Philosophy? The case of John Picard of Lichtenberg", Sessione dottorale, Lecce, 3. Mai 2024.
• "Molte domande e poche risposte: Giovanni Picardi di Lichtenberg e le sue Quaestiones", Laboratorio per l’edizione di testi medievali (PRIN: Prognostication and sciences in medieval societies / Prognostica e scienze nelle società), Foggia, 29. April 2024.
• „The richness of unoriginality: a detailed overview on John Picard of Lichtenberg“, Doktorandenkolloquium des Thomas-Instituts, 31. Oktober 2023.
• “‚Ostendetur, quod istud est de mente Thomae‘. John Picard of Lichtenberg on the subject of theology”, EGSAMP Summerschool 2023 ‚Dark Ages and Fake News. Beliefs, Impostures and Debunking in and about Medieval Thought‘, Morimondo (I), 4.-8. September 2023.

I. Monographs

• Iohannes Picardi de Lichtenberg, Quaestiones I-XIX (Corpus Philosophorum Teutonicorum Medii Aevi), Hamburg 2025.
• BERTHOLD VON MOOSBURG, Expositio super elementationem theologicam Procli , Sach-und Quellenregister. Herausgegeben von Retucci, Fiorella und Sturlese, Loris und Lasorella, Giovanni, Corpus Philosophorum Teutonicorum Medii Aevi (CPTMA) 6,9 2021. 
  ISBN: 978-3-7873-3941-9.
• "The Importance of Being Unoriginal: John Picard of Lichtenberg and his Quaestiones", PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln: Köln 2025.

II. Journal Contributions

• „From Regional Approach to Transnational Perspective: Philological Insights into John Picard’s Quaestiones“, in: Noctuna XII (2025).
• „Liminal Spaces between Oxford and Cologne: John Dymsda le's Quaestiones super Metaphysicam on Prime and Proximate Matter“, in: Noctua XII (2025).
• "John Picard of Lichtenberg's Quaestiones disputatae as a Source of William of Peter of Godin’s Lectura Thomasina", in: Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales 90/1 (2023), 75-110.