Dr Francesco Borghesi
Laurea in Filosofia, University of Bologna (Italy); MA and PhD in Italian Studies, Brown University (USA)
Senior Lecturer
A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
Francesco Borghesi was educated in Italy, Germany and the USA. He has been a DAAD Fellow at the Seminar für Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany), a Frances A. Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London (UK), a Reseach Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University (USA), and a Lauro de Bosis Fellow at Harvard University (USA). He taught at McGill University in Montreal (Canada) and lectured as visiting professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. His research interests include: medieval and Renaissance philosophy, theology and literature, and the interactions between them; the comparative study of religions; magic, science, and religion during the Renaissance. As one of his research projects entails the edition of a humanist text, he has developed a strong interest in palaeography, philology, electronic textual editing, and, more generally, textual criticism as well as history of scholarship. He is a member of the Worldwide Advisory Board of the Virtual Humanities Lab (VHL) at Brown University, and a co-founder and co-ordinator of the Network of Italian Scholars Abroad (NISA), which provides a world wide network for Italian scholars in the humanities and the social sciences. He is also a member of the editorial board of Italian Culture, the journal of the American Association for Italian Studies.
Research interests
- Renaissance philosophy and humanism
- History of religious thought and moral philosophy, 1200-1800
- Textual criticism (philology, palaeography, manuscript studies and textual bibliography)
- Historiography
Teaching and supervision
Teaching
- ITLN3662 Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy
- ITLN3691 Italian Literature, 1200-1860
- ITLN3694 Dante and the Middle Ages
- ITLN3695 Love in Italian Culture
- EUST2607 Comparing Cultures: Europe and the East
Research Supervision
- Italian literature, philology and philosophy.
Current projects
- Critical edition of the letters of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (to be published in Italy by Olschki Editore in Florence and in the USA in the I Tatti Renaissance Library series by Harvard University Press).
- A study on the diffusion of the ideal of concordia in European culture, in particular between the thirteenth and the seventeenth century.
Selected publications
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Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man A New Translation and Commentary (Cambridge Press,2012)
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