General part

18.02.Introduction to the course, informations about requirements and exams. Overview on the relationship between curiosity and knowledge

25.02. A short history of curiosity

Curiosity in the Latin literature and philosophy

03.03. Curiosity in the ancient thought. Cicero and Seneca.

10.03. Curiosity in the Latin literature: Apuleius

Curiosity in the Late Antiquity

17.03. Fathers of the Church and the early Christian account of curiositas. Tertullian and Augustine

24.03. Augustine: curiositas between physical and intellectual desire

Desire of knowing and curiosity in the Middle Ages

31.03. Gregory the Great and Peter Damiani

07.04. Peter Abaelard

14.04. Bernard of Clairvaux and the monastic view on curiosity

14.04. Jean Gerson on the relationship between curiosity and philosophy

21.04. Jean Gerson on curiosity and doctrinal errors

The relationship between studiositas and curiositas

28.04. A history of the concept of studiositas

05.05. Studiositas and curiositas in the works of Thomas Aquinas

12.05. Studiositas and curiositas in the works of Bonaventure of Bagnoregio