About InterLegere

InterLegere is a permanent seminar dedicated to the texts, authors, methods, and problems of modern philosophy. Established in 2021 at the University of Pisa, the group was formed on the initiative of students, PhD candidates, researchers, and professors to organize sessions of shared reading and commentary on philosophical works significant to the formation of modern thought.

Our Name and Method

The name adopted by the seminar reflects the working method we established from the outset. InterLegere draws upon the etymological meaning of intelligo in the Vichean sense.

If, as Giambattista Vico maintains, intelligo is "to gather all the elements of a thing by which its most perfect idea is expressed," so legere is "to gather the elements of writing." To this, we add the idea of commonality and reciprocity provided by the prefix inter.

Collective reading and commentary on a philosophical text in its entirety are, therefore, the essential elements of our activity. Convinced that understanding a work requires slow but continuous engagement, we meet weekly—after having independently read a short portion of the text—to attempt to understand it together through a communal discussion aimed at "gathering" the text’s multiple meanings.

Reading History

Since 2021, the group has collectively analyzed:

• David Hume, The Natural History of Religion

• Pierre Bayle, Pensées diverses sur la comète

• Bernard de Fontenelle, De l'origine des fables

• Thomas Hobbes, Behemoth

Current Project (2025/26): Hume's Dialogues

For the 2025/26 academic year, we are reading David Hume's Dialogues on Natural Religion. 

The InterLegere Research Group

Domenico Berni (University of Pisa)

Sabrina Consolati (Ca' Foscari University)

Anna Doria (University of Pisa)

Mirko Franco (University of Modena)

Aurora Librizzi (University of Pisa and University of Paris Nanterre)

Matteo Marcheschi (University of Pisa)

Simone Mentessi (University of Pisa)

Tommaso Parducci (University of Pisa)

Giovanni Paoletti (University of Pisa)

Lenardo Vanni (University of Pisa and University of Groeningen)

Marco Zolli (Scuola Normale Superiore)

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