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Interests

Renaissance intellectual history. Main research interests are the history of Renaissance political thought, history of philosophy, and history of the classical tradition. Founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard University Press) and Associate Editor of the Catalogus Translationum and Commentariorum (Union Academique Internationale). Currently working on a history of philosophical religions in the Renaissance and a book on Leonardo Bruni and Renaissance republicanism.

Selected Publications

• The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy (editor) Cambridge University Press (2007)
• Marsilio Ficino: Platonic Theology, 6 vols. (editor) Harvard University Press (2001-2006)
• Leonardo Bruni: History of Florence, 3 vols. (editor and translator) Harvard University Press (2001-2007)
• Humanism and Platonism in the Italian Renaissance, 2 vols. Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura (2000)
• Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections (editor) Cambridge University Press
• Renaissance Crusaders: Humanist Crusading Literature in the Age of Mehmed II, in Dumbarton Oaks Papers (1995)
• Plato in the Italian Renaissance, 2 vols. Brill (1990)
• The Recovery of Ancient Philosophy in the Renaissance: A Brief Guide (with Ada Palmer) Florence: Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (2007)

 

Contact Info

Robinson Hall

Room M-02

35 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

jhankins@fas.harvard.edu

617-495-9943

 

Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-4pm

Publications

Intellectual History at Harvard