2. the workshop programme

Because of the strict relationship existing between Pope Sylvester II mastership and the STOQ Project, the Workshop Programme, after the opening lecture of Cardinal Poupard, consisted of several lectures organized into Two Sessions:

• Cardinal PAUL POUPARD, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture:
  "Gerbert, Scientist and Pope" (downloadable)

1. The Modernity of the Pope Sylvester II Mastership

• GIANFRANCO BASTI, Pontifical Lateran University and Coordinator of the STOQ Project:
  "Trivium and Quadrivium for the University of the Third Millennium: The STOQ Project"

• Cardinal CAMILLO RUINI, Vicar of His Holiness Pope John Paul II, President of the Italian Bishop Conference and Great Chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University:
  "Humanism and Science: an Indispensable Synthesis for the Third Millennium" (downloadable)
  [Owing to its importance, an English summary of the Cardinal Ruini's lecture is given in the next page]

2. The Mastership of Pope Sylvester II

• COSTANTINO SIGISMONDI, State University of Rome, History of Astronomy:
  "Gerbert and the Astronomy"
• COSIMO PALAGIANO, State University of Rome, Medicine Geography: "Gerbert and the Medicine"
• ALESSANDRO GIUSTINI, Pontifical Lateran University, History of Science:
  "Gerbert and the Geometry"