The researcher who is carrying out the activities of the RheTrust project is
Dr. Luisa Brotto.
She received her MA from the University of Pisa (2012) and her PhD in Philosophy from the
Scuola Normale Superiore (2018).
She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Italian National Institute for Renaissance Studies (INSR) in 2019, and a
NAWA Ulam Program - Seal of Excellence Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw) in 2021-2023.
As a Young Researcher SOE working on the RheTrust project, she is currently a Junior Assistant Professor (Ricercatrice a tempo determinato RTDA) in History of Philosophy at the University of Pisa.
Her research interests include the history of the concept of trust (fides), theories of social inclusion in the early modern period, the history of Skepticism, and theories of education.
She has edited and translated into Italian some articles from Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique (Pierre Bayle, Guicciardini, Machiavelli, Savonarola, ed. and transl. by L. Brotto, introduction by G. Paganini, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2017) and authored the monograph Attraverso e oltre il limite. Sulla nozione di fides nell'opera di Giordano Bruno (Milan, Mimesis 2023).
She is also the author of articles and chapters on Leon Battista Alberti, Giordano Bruno, Pierre Charron, Pierre Bayle and on teaching at the Academy of Zamość.
The Funding Scheme Young Researchers SOE
The RheTrust project is funded through the Young Researchers SOE funding scheme (2022 edition), issued by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) as part of the Italian Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
This funding scheme aims to support the research activities of young researchers who have won the “Seal of Excellence” following their participation in the “Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships” and “Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship” calls within the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe framework programs.
The “Seal of Excellence” is a quality mark awarded by the European Commission to excellent Research and Innovation project proposals presented in response to the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe calls. Proposals that receive a positive evaluation (above the threshold) but are not funded due to the exhaustion of the available resources, receive a “Seal of Excellence”.
