Daniele Morrone

PhD student since 2018 and a member of the AlchemEast ERC project. Research fellow, in AlchemEast, since April 2022, with a project titled “La chimica di Plutarco: le arti chimiche nei Moralia” [Plutarch's chemistry: chemical arts in the Moralia].

In my PhD thesis I presented a systematic and analytic overview of the conceptions pertaining to the nature, behaviour, and connotative values of minerals and stones scattered throughout the writings of Plutarch of Chaeronea, also examining a selection of passages of ‘metallurgic’ character. This is the first outcome of a research aimed at reconstructing the full landscape of ‘chemical’ ideas occurring in Plutarch's corpus.

I am completing development of TheSu (Thesis-Support), a digital tool intended to aid a variety of research objectives in intellectual history. It is an XML annotation scheme for the indexing and mapping of ideas and of their contexts of enunciation in any textual source.