Notes on Contributors
Guy Claessens
studied classics at the University of Leuven. In 2011 he obtained his PhD in philosophy with a dissertation on the Renaissance reception of Proclus’ Commentary on the first book of Euclid’s Elements. He is a member of the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at the University of Leuven. His current research focuses on the reception of Proclus’ natural philosophy from the fifteenth century onward and on Renaissance commentaries on Plato’s Timaeus. He published several articles on Neoplatonic concepts of imagination and matter in the Renaissance.
Barbara Haggh-Huglo
is Professor of Music at the University of Maryland, College Park, and elected Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society in 2021, has published editions of chant for St Hilary of Poitiers and St Elizabeth of Hungary, edited several books, and published more than 100 articles on medieval and Renaissance sacred music, composers, towns, courts, and music theory, including studies on Guillaume Du Fay, Josquin, the ‘Armed Man’, Order of the Golden Fleece, and Mexican offices. Dr. Haggh-Huglo has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University, and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, among others, served the International Musicological Society as Vice President and the International Musicological Society Study Group ‘Cantus planus’ as Chair, and is a member of the editorial boards of the series ‘Historiae’, now with more than thirty published volumes, and of other periodicals. The main interest of her late husband, Michel Huglo († 2012) in the last twenty years of his life was Plato’s Timaeus.
John Shannon Hendrix
is a professor in the Cummings School of Architecture at Roger Williams University Rhode Island. He has also been a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Connecticut, the University of Lincoln, and John Cabot University in Rome. Authored books include Architecture as Cosmology: Lincoln Cathedral and English Gothic Architecture (Peter Lang, 2011), Platonic Architectonics: Platonic Philosophies and the Visual Arts (Peter Lang, 2004), and Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures (Peter Lang, 2003). Edited volumes include Bishop Robert Grosseteste and Lincoln Cathedral (Ashgate, 2014), Renaissance Theories of Vision (Ashgate, 2010), Neoplatonic Aesthetics (Peter Lang, 2004), and Neoplatonism and the Arts (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002).
Frederick Lauritzen
read classics at New College, Oxford (1996–2000, BA, MA) and obtained a doctorate in classics from Columbia University in New York (2000–2005 MA, MPhil, PhD) with a thesis on the Chronographia of Michael Psellos (published in 2013). From 2008 to 2014 he was a postdoctoral researcher in Bologna. Since 2017 he has been historian at the Scuola Grande di San Marco in Venice. He edited in 2021, with S. Wear, The Byzantine Platonists 284–1453, published in the series Theandrites: studies in Byzantine Philosophy and Christian Platonism 284–1453, of which they are both editors.
Federico M. Petrucci
is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Turin. He studied and obtained his PhD in Pisa and has been a fellow of the Humboldt Foundation in Würzburg, of the Scuola Normale Superiore, and of the Department of Classics and Ancient History of Durham University. He is particularly interested in Plato, the Platonist tradition, and ancient science. His publications include a translation and commentary of Theon’s Expositio (Academia Verlag, 2012), the monograph Taurus of Beirut. The Other Side of Middle Platonism (Taylor & Francis, 2018), Platone, Timeo, a critical edition with Italian translation (Mondadori, 2022), and several papers on the exegesis of the Timaeus and Plato’s ethics.
Jacomien Prins
is a researcher at Utrecht University. She has worked extensively on the interaction between music and philosophy in the Renaissance. Her work includes Echoes of an Invisible World: Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on Cosmic Order and Music Theory (Brill, 2014), Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony (Routledge, 2017), The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-being (Routledge, 2018), and an edition and translation of Marsilio Ficino’s commentary on the Timaeus, entitled Marsilio Ficino: Commentaries on Plato: Timaeus (Harvard University Press, The I Tatti Renaissance Library (ITRL), 98, forthcoming). She is currently working on a book entitled ‘A Well-tempered Life’: Music, Health and Happiness in Renaissance Learning.
Jonathan Regier
is a researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where he recently completed a Marie Curie fellowship. He is an historian of early modern philosophy and science. His work explores several themes that mark the intellectual landscape of the period: humanist innovation in medicine and natural philosophy, the mathematization of nature, and the naturalization of the divine. His studies have appeared in Isis, Bruniana & Campanelliana, HOPOS, and Early Science and Medicine, among other journals. He received his PhD at Université Paris Diderot and has held fellowships at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti, Ghent University, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Riccardo Saccenti
is a researcher at the University of Bergamo. Since his education based at the University of Pisa, he has been post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre de Médiévistique Jean Schneider of the University of Nancy/CNRS and at the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame and a fellow of the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII, Bologna. His main research interests concern the history of medieval moral thought and the epistemological definition of the status of theology. He has conducted particular research on the history of the idea of natural law between the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. His major works are La ragione e la norma: Dibattiti attorno alla legge naturale fra XII e XIII secolo (Brepols, 2019), Debating Medieval Natural Law: a Survey (University of Notre Dame Press, 2016), Un nuovo lessico morale medievale: il contributo di Burgundio da Pisa (Aracne, 2016), and Conservare la retta volontà: L’atto morale nelle dottrine di Filippo il Cancelliere e Ugo di Saint Cher (1225–1235) (Il Mulino, 2013).
Barbara Sattler
has taught at UIUC, Yale, the University of St. Andrews, before taking up the chair of ancient and medieval philosophy at Bochum. Her main area of research is metaphysics and natural philosophy in the ancient Greek world, especially the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle. Her book The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought – Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. She is currently working on two other book projects, one on ancient notions of time from Homer to Plato and one on spatial notions in early Greek thought.
Nicholas Temple
is Senior Professor of Architectural History and Director of the Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE) in the School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University, having previously been professor of architecture at the University of Huddersfield, head of school at the University of Lincoln and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely on architecture, urbanism, and perspective, including Renovatio Urbis: Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony in the Rome of Julius II (Routledge, 2011) (shortlisted for the Comité International des Critiques d’Architecture Bruno Zevi Book Award 2014), Disclosing Horizons: Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space (Routledge, 2007), Architecture and the Language Debate: Artistic and Linguistic Exchanges in Early Modern Italy (Routledge, 2020) and Routledge Handbook of the Reception of Classical Architecture, edited by Nicholas Temple, Andrzej Piotrowski and Juan Heredia (Routledge, 2019). He has been recipient of fellowships and research grants, including the Paul Mellon Rome Fellowship, Bogliasco Fellowship and a recent British Academy funded project on Lorenzo Ghiberti. Temple is chief editor of the Routledge Research in Architectural History series.
Edmund Thomas
is Associate Professor in Ancient Visual and Material Culture at Durham University and a former director of the Durham Centre for Classical Reception. His work concerns the intellectual and cultural background of Greek and Roman architecture and the classical architectural tradition up to the present day. He has published Monumentality and the Roman Empire: Architecture in the Antonine Age (Oxford University Press, 2007) and co-edited volumes on Interactions between Animals and Humans in Greek and Roman Antiquity (De Gruyter, 2017) and The Materiality of Text: Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity (Brill, 2018). His recent work includes papers on the Pantheon in Rome, rhetoric and Roman architecture, Greek architecture and music, and the reception of ancient Roman “Baroque” architecture in seventeenth-century Europe.
Robert Vinkesteijn
is a researcher at Utrecht University. His first monograph, an adaptation of his dissertation Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case- Studies on the Relation Between Body and Soul, was published in 2022 in Brill’s Philosophia Antiqua series. His research has its point of departure in ancient Greek science and philosophy, but he is also interested in tracing ancient Greek notions throughout the later tradition. He is currently finalizing a book on the history of melancholy, which is due to appear in 2025 with Routledge.
Jacqueline Vons
is Professeur Agrégé and Honorary Professor at the Université François Rabelais in Tours. She is Honorary President of the Société française d’histoire de la médecine, Member of the Académie des sciences, arts et belles lettres de Touraine, and Corresponding Member of the Académie internationale des sciences. She is a member of the editorial board of Histoire des sciences médicales, the journal of the Société d’histoire de la médecine. She has published editions, inventories, translations, and studies of Latin medical texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, particularly La Fabrique de Vésale et autres textes. Éditions, transcriptions, traductions, with Stéphane Velut (Paris: BIU Santé, in progress since 2014), the first French critical edition, translation and commentary of Books I–VII of the De humani corporis fabrica. Her recent works include Formes du savoir médical, co-edited with V. Giacomotto-Charra (Bordeaux: MSHA, 2017).