We are pleased to host the second event dedicated to Italian philosopher, poet and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno, organized in collaboration with the Lorenzo Da Ponte Library, a London-based non-for-profit organization aiming to translate and give visibility to manuscripts on Italian culture.
The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library and ICI London are proud to present “Talks on Giordano Bruno”, an evening of discussion about the 16th century philosopher, his thought, originality, and significance today. With Dr Lorenzo Mannelli, Professor Dilwyn Knox, Dr Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo, Professor Ingrid Rowland PhD, and Professor Hilary Gatti.
Greetings and introduction by Dr Lorenzo Mannelli MD Phd (Lorenzo Da Ponte Library).
Presentations by:
Prof. Dilwyn Knox (Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Studies, UCL) – Giordano Bruno: Theologian
Dr Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo PhD: Bruno’s significance for our time
Prof. Ingrid Rowland PhD (Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, Rome): The Heroic Frenzies of Giordano Bruno
Dr Hilary Gatti (Retired Associate Professor of English Literature in the Faculty of Philosophy of the Università di Roma “La Sapienza”): Translating Bruno’s Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast.
The presentations will be followed by an open discussion and Q&A
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Dr Lorenzo Mannelli is a medical doctor who received his medical degree from the University of Florence, School of Medicine, and he has been in practice for almost 20 years. He is the Founder and Owner of LMVP Telemedicine (based in the UK) and the Founder and Owner of Diatheia telemedicine (based in Italy). Lorenzo Mannelli is also a Trustee of the Lorenzo Da Ponte Library, which has fostered the first English translation and publication of three manuscripts by Giordano Bruno: The Ash Wednesday Supper, On the Heroic Frenzies and Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast.
Prof Dilwyn Knox is Emeritus Professor at the School of European Languages, University College London. His research interests are in Renaissance Studies, particularly Renaissance philosophy and learning, education, cosmology and Copernicanism. His research over the past ten years has focused on cosmology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, with special focus on Marsilio Ficino, Copernicus and Giordano Bruno. He is currently working on a volume outlining the essential features of Bruno’s philosophy.
Prof Ingrid Rowland is a Professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, in Rome. She has published extensively on her subjects of interest, including Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic. She frequently contributes to the New York Review of Books about Italian art, architecture, history and many other topics. In 2021 she was awarded the Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing by the Robert B. Silver Foundation
Dr Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo, University of Trento, has three PhDs, in Law, Theology, and Humanities, from the Universities of London (Birkbeck College), Geneva, and Trento, respectively. His monographs and articles concentrate on mediaeval and modern ideas, including Diritto e teologia alle soglie dell’età moderna (Naples, Editoriale Scientifica, 2015) and Against the Backdrop of Sovereignty and Absolutism (Leiden, Brill, 2022). He currently coordinates the ‘Festival Bruniano’, a series of cultural events focusing on Bruno’s contribution to early-modern ideas.
Dr Hilary Gatti has been Associate Professor of English Literature in the Philosophy Faculty the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” until 2007. Presently she is a Member of the Fondazione, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” as well as of the Renaissance Society of America and The History of the Humanities Society. She has published widely in Renaissance studies, particularly on Giordano Bruno as both a literary author and an early post-Copernican cosmologist. With the Princeton University Press she has published Essays on Giordano Bruno and Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe. Her most recent publication is a new edition and translation of Giordano Bruno’s Ash Wednesday Supper (Toronto University Press for the Lorenzo da Ponte Library).