Personal

Education

M.A. in History: Columbia University, 1970

M.Phil in History: Columbia University, 1973

Employment

Assistant Librarian (Academic) at the Warburg Institute: 1974-1986

Lecturer in the History of Philosophy at the Warburg Institute: 1987-1996

Senior Lecturer in the History of Philosophy at the Warburg Institute: 1996-1998

Reader in the History of Renaissance Philosophy: 1999-

Publications

‘Francesco Filelfo’s Lost Letter De ideis’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 42 (1979), pp. 236-49

‘Francesco Filelfo on Emotions, Virtues and Vices: A Re-examination of his Sources’, Bibliothèque d’humanisme et Renaissance, 43 (1981), pp. 129-40

‘Cicero, Stoicism and Textual Criticism: Poliziano on ó’, Rinascimento, 23 (1983), pp. 79-110

‘The Pseudo-Aristotelian Theology in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe’ in Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages: The ‘Theology’ and Other Texts, ed. J. Kraye, W.F. Ryan, and C.B. Schmitt, London, 1986, pp. 265-86

‘Moral Philosophy’ in The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, gen. ed. C.B. Schmitt; ed. Q. Skinner and E. Kessler; assoc. ed. J. Kraye, Cambridge, 1988, pp. 303-86

‘Daniel Heinsius and the Author of De mundo’, in The Uses of Greek and Latin: Historical Essays, ed. A. C. Dionisotti, A. T. Grafton and J. Kraye, London, 1988, pp. 171-97

‘Aristotle’s God and the Authenticity of De mundo: An Early Modern Controversy’, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 28 (1990), pp. 339-58

‘Erasmus and the Canonization of Aristotle: The Letter to John More’, in England and the Continental Renaissance: Essays in Honour of J. B. Trapp, ed. E. Chaney and P. Mack, Woodbridge, 1990, pp. 37-52

‘Alexander of Aphrodisias, Gianfrancesco Beati and the Problem of Metaphysics ’, in Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, jr., ed. J. Monfasani and R. Musto, New York, 1991, pp. 137-60

‘History of Western Ethics: The Renaissance’, in Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. L. C. Becker, New York and London, 1992; reprinted (with additional bibliography) in A History of Western Ethics, ed. L. C. Becker, New York and London, 1992, pp. 63-79

‘The Philosophy of the Italian Renaissance’ in The Routledge History of Philosophy, vol. IV, ed. G. H. R. Parkinson, London and New York, 1993, pp. 16-69

‘The Transformation of Platonic Love in the Italian Renaissance’ in Platonism and the English Imagination, ed. A. Baldwin and S. Hutton, Cambridge, 1994, pp. 76-85; reprinted in The Renaissance in Europe: A Reader, ed. K. Whitlock (New Haven and London, 2000), pp. 81-7

‘Like Father, Like Son: Aristotle, Nicomachus and the Nicomachean Ethics’, in Aristotelica et Lulliana magistro doctissimo Charles H. Lohr septuagesimum annum feliciter agenti dedicata, ed. R. Imbach, F. Dominguez, T. Pindl-Büchel, P. Walter, Turnhout, 1995, pp. 155-80

‘Renaissance Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics’, in The Vocabulary of Teaching and Research between Middle Ages and Renaissance, Proceedings of the Colloquium: London, Warburg Institute, 11-12 March 1994, ed. O. Weijers, CIVICIMA: Études sur le vocabulaire du moyen âge, VIII, Turnhout, 1995, pp. 96-117

‘The Printing History of Aristotle in the Fifteenth Century: A Bibliographical Approach to Renaissance Philosophy’, Renaissance Studies, 9 (1995), pp. 189-211

Entries on G. Bruno, M. Ficino, G. Pico della Mirandola, P. Pomponazzi and L. Valla in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. T. Honderich (Oxford, 1995)

‘Philologists and Philosophers’, in The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism, ed. J. Kraye, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 142-60

‘Lorenzo and the Philosophers’, in Lorenzo the Magnificent: Culture and Politics in Medicean Florence, ed. M. Mallett and N. Mann (Warburg Institute Colloquia, 3), London, 1996, pp. 151-66

Seven entries on humanists and philosophers (Angelo Decembrio, Bartolomeo Fazio, Marsilio Ficino, Cristoforo Landino, Justus Lipsius, Agostino Nifo and Angelo Poliziano) in The Dictionary of Art, ed. J. S. Turner, 34 vols (London and New York, 1996); reprinted in Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance & Mannerist Art, ed. J. S. Turner (London and New York, 2000).

‘Melanchthons ethische Kommentare und Lehrbücher’, in Melanchthon und das Lehrbuch des 16. Jahrhunderts, ed. J. Leonhardt (Rostock, 1997), pp. 195-214

Five translations in Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts, ed. J. Kraye, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1997), vol. I: Moral Philosophy, pp. 47-87, 192-99

‘Conceptions of Moral Philosophy’ in The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, ed. D. Garber and M. Ayers, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1998), II, pp. 1279-1316

Philosophy: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Units 26-8 of Incunabula, The Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500 (Research Publications Inc., 1998)

‘The Contribution of Renaissance Humanists to the Neostoic Revival’, Wtki neostoickie w literaturze polskiego renesansu i baroku. (Papers of the conference Neostoicyzm w literaturze i kulturze staropolskiej, Szczecin, 20-22 October 1997), ed. Piotr Urbanski (Szczecin, 1999), pp. 15-41. (Published in Polish translation as ‘Wkad renesansowych humanistów w odrodzenie neostoicyzmu’, Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce, 42, 1998, pp. 5-23)

‘Stoicism and Epicureanism: Philosophical Revival and Literary Repercussions’, The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. III, ed. G. P. Norton (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 458-65.

‘Pietro Pomponazzi (1462-1525): Weltlicher Aristotelismus in der Renaissance’, in Philosophen der Renaissance: Eine Einführung, ed. P. R. Blum (Darmstadt, 1999), pp. 87-103.

‘"Ethnicorum omnium sanctissimus": Marcus Aurelius and His Meditations from Xylander to Diderot’, in Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy, ed. J. Kraye and M. Stone, London Studies in the History of Philosophy, 1 (London, 2000), pp. 107-34

‘Classical Scholarship’, ‘Moral Philosophy’ and ‘Stoicism’, in The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. P. F. Grendler, 6 vols (New York, 1999)

‘Sir Richard Barckley’, in Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century British Philosophers, ed. Andrew Pyle 2 vols (Bristol, 2000)

‘The Immortality of the Soul in the Renaissance: Between Natural Philosophy and Theology’, Signatures, 30 November 2000, pp. 51-68

‘In Praise of Reason: From Humanism to Descartes’, in The Discovery of Happiness, ed. S. McCready (London: MQ Publications, 2001), pp. 136-51

‘L’interprétation platonicienne de l’Enchiridion d’Épictète proposée par Politien: Philologie et philosophie dans la Florence du XVème siècle, à la fin des années 70’, in Penser entre les lignes: Philologie et philosophie au Quattrocento, ed. F. Mariani Zini (Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2001), pp. 161-77

‘Lorenzo Valla and Changing Perceptions of Renaissance Humanism’, Comparative Criticism, 23 (2001), pp. 37-55.

‘Ficino in the Firing Line: A Renaissance Neoplatonist and his Critics’, in Marsilio Ficino 1433-1499: His Sources, His Circle, His Legacy, ed. M. J. B. Allen and V. Rees (Leiden: Brill, 2001), pp. 377-97

‘Humanism’, in The Oxford Companion to the Body, ed. C. Blakemore and S. Jennett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 368

‘Neo-Stoicism’, in Encyclopedia of Ethics, second edition, ed. L. C. Becker and C. B. Becker, 3 vols (Routledge: London and New York, 2001), II, pp. 1228-32

‘Renaissance Philosophy: Between the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era’, Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie (2001), pp. 187-98

‘Thomas Gataker (1574-1654) and his Edition of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius’, in Aspects du néo-stoicisme en Europe aux XVI^e et XVII^e siècles, ed. Pierre Maréchaux and Michel Simonin (Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, forthcoming)

‘The Role of Medieval Philosophy in Renaissance Thought: The Evidence of Early Printed Books’, in Actes du F.I.D.E.M. Congrès de Barcelone 1999, ed. J. Hamesse (Brepols, forthcoming)

‘Eclectic Aristotelianism in the Moral Philosophy of Francesco Piccolomini’, in The Presence of Paduan Aristotelianism in Early Modern Philosophy, ed. E. Kessler et al. (Antenore, forthcoming)

‘British Philosophy before Locke’, in A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, ed. S. Nadler (Blackwell, forthcoming)

21 entries for The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature, ed. David Robey and Peter Hainsworth (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

Articles on Haly Heron, James Martin and Thomas Palfreyman for the New DNB (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

Reviews for Journal of Roman Studies, Modern Language Review, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Bibliothèque d’humanisme et Renaissance, The Library, Heythrop Journal, American Historical Review, Times Literary Supplement, Review of Metaphysics, Notes and Queries, Isis, Renaissance Quarterly, Speculum, History, The Slavonic and East European Review, Studi umanistici, Sixteenth-Century Journal, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Religious Studies.

Publications in Progress

Editor, jointly with W.F. Ryan and C.B. Schmitt, Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages: The ‘Theology’ and Other Texts (London, 1986)

Editor, jointly with A. C. Dionisotti and A. Grafton , The Uses of Greek and Latin: Historical Essays, (London, 1988)

Associate editor, The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, gen. ed. C.B. Schmitt; ed. Q. Skinner and E. Kessler (Cambridge, 1988)

Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism (Cambridge, 1996); Spanish translation, Introducción al humanismo renacentista (Madrid, 1998)

Editor, Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts, vol. I: Moral Philosophy; vol. II: Political Philosophy (Cambridge, 1997)

Joint editor, with Martin Stone, Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy, London Studies in the History of Philosophy, 1 (London, 2000)

Joint editor, with W. F. Ryan and C. Burnett, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, 1986-

Advisory Board: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1985-95

Associate Editor: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1995-6

Joint Editor: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1997-

Editorial consultant for philosophy: Bodleian Incunable Project, ed. K. Jensen: 1991-

Editorial consultant: British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 1991-

Editorial consultant: Bruniana & Campanelliana, 1995-

Editorial consultant: Letteratura italiana antica, 1999-

Advisory committee: I Tatti Renaissance Library, 1997-

Colloquia and Seminars Organized

Seminar on Medieval and Renaissance Intellectual History at the Warburg Institute (1982-4), jointly with C. B. Schmitt

Colloquia on Greek and Latin Scholarship at the Warburg Institute (1986), jointly with A. C. Dionisotti and Anthony Grafton

History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy at the Warburg Institute (1988), jointly with A. Clericuzio

History of Philosophy Seminar at the Warburg Institute (1991-5), jointly with R. Sorabji and C. Burnett

History of the Problems of Philosophy Seminar at the University of London (1995-7), jointly with M. Stone and J. Wolff.

Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy at the Warburg Institute (1997), jointly with M. Stone

The New Historiography of Early Modern Philosophy (2000-2002), jointly with Tom Sorell and G. J. A. Rogers.