Convegno The Science of Natural Properties: Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice (6th-15th century)

17 GIUGNO
Sala delle Armi, Palazzo Malvezzi
| 10:00-11:00 REGISTRATION AND WELCOME
| 11:00-12:30 NATURAL AND OCCULT PROPERTIES OF MINERALS AND METALS
MARIO LENTANO (Università di Siena), ANNA MARIA URSO (Università di Messina): "Pietre pregne e donne gravide. Una storia culturale dell'aetite"
STEFANIA FORTUNA (Università Politecnica delle Marche): "I metalli nella terapia dei medici antichi greci e latini"
HUSSIEN SOLIMAN ELZOHARY (Bibliotheca Alexandrina): "Defending Natural Properties of Metals: ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī on the Dispute between the Chemist and the Theorist"

| 14:30-15:30 TECHNICAL HANDBOOKS AND MATERIAL KNOWLEDGE
ALESSIA ZUBANI (École du Louvre – Institut Français d' Études Anatoliennes): "Natural Properties and Mechanical Knowledge in al-Jazarī's Compendium of the Theory and Practice of the Mechanical Arts"
LEONIE BÖTTIGER (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte): "Valets, Velvet, and Vultures: The Properties of Animal Parts in a Fifteenth-Century Arabic Housekeeping Manual"

| 16:15-17:15 KEYNOTE SPEECH
Aula Magna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna
ISABELLE DRAELANTS (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes - CNRS): "Proprietas, un concetto medievale cardine tra esegesi, fisica, filosofia e magia"


18 GIUGNO
| 9:30-10:30 KEYNOTE SPEECH
Aula Magna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna
JEAN-CHARLES COULON (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes - CNRS)
From Nature to Letters: Plato and the History of Arabic Occult Sciences

| 11:30-13:00 STARS, STONES, AND TALISMANS
Sala delle Armi, Palazzo Malvezzi
BENNET ALBERTH (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen): "A Lost Greek Work on Occult Properties Hidden in the Arabic Tradition?"
NICOLETTA PALMIERI (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne): "Influenze astrali e metereologiche sulla natura umana: la prima res non naturalis secondo i maestri di medicina nel XII secolo"
GIULIA FRENI (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici): "Tra mineralogia e astrologia: un opuscolo astrologico sulle pietre planetarie nel XV secolo"

| 14:30-16:00 MANIPULATION AND INTERPRETATION OF NATURE
ANGELICA GASPARI (Sapienza Università di Roma): "Magnetismo e altri fenomeni fisici nella letteratura pahlavi"
EUGENIO VILLA (Università di Udine): "Astanus/Ostanes in the Bologna University Library and beyond"
ALMA ELIAZ (Tel Aviv University): "The Properties of Numbers in a Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Geomantic Treatise"

| 16.15-17:15 PROPERTIES AND CRAFTMANSHIP
JAVIER LÓPEZ RIDER (Universidad de Córdoba): "Hojas, raíces y cortezas. El uso de sustancias de origen vegetal en la producción cosmética de la España bajomedieval"
DAVID FERNÁNDEZ SÁNCHEZ (Universidad de Córdoba): "Curtición vegetal y producción de obras de cuero en la Castilla bajomedieval"

| 17:30-18:30 PRESENTATION OF THE EDITION OF THE BOOK OF OCCULT PROPERTIES BY ABŪ AL-ʿALĀ IBN ZUHR


19 GIUGNO
| 10:00-12:30 NATURAL AND OCCULT PROPERTIES OF PLANTS BETWEEN LITERATURE AND MEDICINE
Sala delle Armi, Palazzo Malvezzi
ARSENIO FERRACES RODRÍGUEZ (Universidade da Coruña): "El poder hemostático de la morera (arbor mori) en dos pasajes mágico-médicos de la antigüedad tardía"
BEHNAM ATAEI (Freie Universität Berlin): "From the “Expeller of Death” to the “Slayer of the Evil Eye”: The Apotropaic Rebirth of Haoma/ Hōm in the Iranian World"
CHLOE NEWMAN (Cambridge University): "Materia Medica as Allegory: Translating the Power of Plants in the Alexander Romance Tradition"
SAMUELE FILIPPI (Università di Palermo): "Che cosa cura davvero? Virtus e farmaco nel Plusquam Commentum di Pietro Torrigiano"

| 14:00-16:30 NATURAL AND OCCULT PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN MEDICINE
GIUSEPPE TROVATO (Università di Messina): "Proprietà occulte nei Physica di Teodoro Prisciano"
ABEL DE LORENZO RODRÍGUEZ (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela – University of Edinburgh): "Pearls, Cinnamon, and Deer Heart Bones. The Emerging Salernitan Recipes and Medical Properties in Twelfth century Iberia"
MARINA DÍAZ MARCOS (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha): "Las propiedades naturales de las plantas en la traducción latina medieval del galénico De simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus VI"
LI PARRENT (McGill University): "Agent and Ingredient: Wildness and Domesticity as Mediators of Natural Properties in Plants and Animals in Courtly Contexts, c.1250-c.1450"

| 16:30-17:00 CLOSING REMARKS