#  James Hankins 

Professor of History

 

 

 



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 location\_on Robinson Hall 206, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 email <jhankins@fas.harvard.edu> 

 laptop\_windows [The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History](http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/harvardcolloquium/) 

 laptop\_windows [Personal Website](https://scholar.harvard.edu/jameshankins/home) 

 

 



 

*On Leave Spring 2026*

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 finishing a monograph entitled, *The Virtue Politics of the Italian Humanists*.

[Chronological List of Publications](/file_url/2787)

**Selected Publications**

(links to more publications available on [DASH](http://dash.harvard.edu/browse?authority=c9548ac4b68ac0d3c72fd7f5fae87321&type=harvardAuthor))

- *The Rebirth of Platonic Theology*, ed. James Hankins and Fabrizio Meroi (Florence: Olschki, 2013)
- *The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy* (editor) Cambridge University Press (2007)
- *Humanism and Platonism in the Italian Renaissance,* 2 vols. Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura (2003-2004)
- *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)
- *Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections* (editor) Cambridge University Press
- *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)



 

 

 





 

 

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