contributors

Elisabeth Blum, Ph.D, teaches philosophy and was visiting professor at Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic). She translated Giordano Bruno and Marsilio Ficino into German with comments. Her most recent book: Perspectives on Giordano Bruno. In 2014 she presented at the Festival Bruniano in Nola (Italy).

Paul Richard Blum is emeritus T.J. Higgins, S.J., Chair in Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. His recent books: Nicholas of Cusa on Peace, Religion, and Wisdom in Renaissance Context; Giordano Bruno Teaches Aristotle and Giordano Bruno lettore di Aristotele; Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism. He is editor of Philosophers of the Renaissance and main editor of Gasparo Contarini’s De immortalitate animae.

Angelika Bönker-Vallon studied philosophy, history of sciences, German literature and theology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (Germany). She is a lecturer at the University of Kassel (Germany) with the special focus on philosophy of the Renaissance and co-editor of the bilingual edition of the Italian works by Giordano Bruno (Italian-German).

Alberto Bondolfi (1946) is Emeritus Professor of Ethics at University of Geneva. In his past academic and professional career, he was a fellow of the Institute of Social Ethics at University of Zurich, professor of Ethics at University of Lausanne, president of the Swiss Society of Biomedical Ethics, and a member of the National Commission of Ethics of the Swiss Confederation.

Raffaele Carbone is a researcher at the “Federico II” University of Naples and an associate member of the IHRIM (ENS de Lyon). His research specializes in the history of modern philosophy, with particular focus on French and Italian thinkers of the 16th-17th centuries. He is author of various articles and four monographs, the most recent being La Vision politique de Malebranche.

Jean-Paul De Lucca is Senior Lecturer in political and legal philosophy at the University of Malta. Formerly a doctoral research scholar at the Università di Roma Tre and Frances Yates Fellow in intellectual history at the Warburg Institute, he is a member of the editorial board of Bruniana & Campanelliana and a collaborator of Archivio Tommaso Campanella.

Hilary Gatti has taught at the State University of Milan and the Sapienza University of Rome. She has been an Honorary Fellow of University College London, of the University of Aukland, and a member of the Institute of Advanced Study (Princeton USA). She publishes widely on the Renaissance. Her most recent publication is a new commented text and translation of Giordano Bruno’s La cena de le ceneri.

Miguel Ángel Granada teaches History of Renaissance Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. He has mainly published on Giordano Bruno and the cosmological revolution of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth century.

Matthias Kaufmann studied mathematics philosophy and political science. Habilitation with a work on reference and truth in William Ockham 1992, professor in philosophy (ethics) at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg since 1995. Main fields of work are Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Applied Ethics, Early Modern Philosophy.

Dilwyn Knox is Professor Emeritus of Renaissance Studies at University College London. His main research interests over the past ten or so years have been Copernicus’s natural philosophy, Marsilio Ficino’s metaphysics and Giordano Bruno’s philosophy, particularly his cosmology and metaphysics. Recently he has completed the entry on Bruno in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.

Sergius Kodera teaches at University of Vienna. He has published on Renaissance authors such as Marsilio Ficino, Fernando de Rojas, Machiavelli, Leone Ebreo, Girolamo Cardano, Giovan Battista della Porta, and Giordano Bruno. Currently he is working on a book on Della Porta in English. His main fields of interest are the history of the body and sexuality, magic and media.

Thomas Leinkauf is professor of philosophy at University of Münster. His interests lie in the fields of history of philosophy (late antiquity, Renaissance, early modern age, German Idealism). He is the main editor of the Giordano Bruno Werke, issued from 2007 onwards by Meiner in Hamburg. He recently published his Philosophie des Humanismus und der Renaissance 1350-1600, 2 vols.

M. Stefania Montecalvo is associate professor of Classical Philology at University of Foggia. She has two PhDs, the first in Greek and Latin Philology and the second in Historical Studies. Her interests concern the history of classical scholarship, the reception of Cicero in the antiquity and in the modern age, the study of classical antiquity in France during the XVIIIth century.

Ingrid Rowland is based in Rome as a professor in the Department of History and the School of Architecture of the University of Notre Dame. Books include Giordano Bruno, Philosopher/Heretic, Giordano Bruno On the Heroic Frenzies, The Divine Spark of Syracuse, The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art (with Noah Charney), and From Pompeii.

Raffaele Ruggiero is Professor of Renaissance Italian Literature and Civilization at the Aix-Marseille University. His publications include a commented edition of The Prince of Machiavelli (Milan 2008). He has recently inaugurated a research path devoted to the Italian diplomacy of the 16th century, publishing the volume Castiglione diplomatico.

Elisabetta Tarantino is an independent scholar and Honorary Research Fellow of the Oxford Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. Her publications include Le metamorfosi dell’amore (on English romantic comedy), Storia del teatro inglese. L’età di Shakespeare (with A. Lombardo), and the co-edited volume Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature (with C. Burrow, S. Harrison and M. McLaughlin).

Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo teaches legal history at Paris-Sud University. Founder and co-director, along with Anton Schütz, of the Centre for Research in Political Theology at the School of Law of Birkbeck College, University of London, he was recently Le Studium / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance of the “François Rabelais” University of Tours.

Alain Wijffels teaches legal history and comparative law in the universities of Leiden, Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve. He is also a senior research fellow of the French CNRS. His work focuses, in a comparative-historical perspective, on the relationship between legal science and legal practice–both in public governance and in the courts’ practice since the later Middle Ages.