Enrico Piergiacomi is assistant professor in history of philosophy at the Technion | Israel Institute of Technology and a research fellow at the Center for Religious Studies at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trent.
He benefited from the international research fellowship The Reception of Lucretius and Roman Epicureanism from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth century (2019-2020) and was Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow at Villa I Tatti | The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2021-2022), where he initiated the project The Pleasures of Piety. History of a neglected religious tradition.
Scholar of ancient philosophy, of its reception in the thought of the early modern age and of theatre, he is a specialist in theological thought and its moral implications. He supervises the “Theater Laboratory” of the University of Trento and takes care of the Teatrosofia column with Teatro e Critica.
He has published two books, History of Ancient Atomistic Theologies (Sapienza Editrice, Rome 2017) and Amicus Lucretius. Gassendi, the “De rerum natura” and Christian Hedonism (De Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2022).