Teaching:
Undergraduate Courses:
His 130: European Civilization
His 235: Early and Medieval Christianity
His 338: Renaissance Italy
His 339: Sixteenth-Century Europe
His 463: Byzantine History
Graduate Courses:
His 563: Byzantine History
His 611: Readings in Renaissance Intellectual History
His 611: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History
His 611: Readings in the History of Christiantiy from Christ to the
Seventeenth Century
His 620: Seminar in Renaissance Intellectual History
His 620: Seminar in European Intellectual History to the Nineteenth
Century
His 620: Seminar on Central European Emigrés to America between the
two World Wars
Interest Statement:
My broad interest is European intellectual history, with a special interest
in Renaissance intellectual and religious history. My graduate courses
cover the Renaissance humanism, the Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth
Century, Early Modern Philosophy, and Reformation theology. Because
I teach these subjects on the undergraduate level, I would also take
a student interested in independent study in Byzantine history, the
history of early and medieval Christianity, and Early Modern Political
and Social history. As a scholar, I have published mainly on Greek and
Latin humanists in fifteenth-century Italy.
BOOKS:
George of Trebizond: A Biography and a Study of His Rhetoric and
Logic (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976).
Collectanea Trapezuntiania. Texts, Documents, and Bibliographies
of George of Trebizond. (Binghamton, NY, 1984)
Supplementum Festivum: Studies in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller.
Ed. with J. Hankins and F. Purnell, Jr. (Binghamton, NY, 1987)
Studies on Renaissance Society and Culture in Honor of Eugene F.
Rice, Jr. Ed. with R. Musto (New York: Italica Press, 1991)
Fernando of Cordova: A Biographical and Intellectual Profile.
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 82, Part 6
(Philadelphia, 1992)
Language and Learning in Renaissance Italy: Selected Essays
(Aldershot, Hampshire: Variorum, 1994)
Byzantine Scholars in Renaissance Italy: Cardinal Bessarion and
Other Emigrés: Selected Essays (Aldershot, Hampshire: Variorum,
1995)
Greeks and Latins in Fifteenth-Century Italy: Renaissance Philosophy
and Humanism (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Variorum, 2004)
Nicolaus Scutellius, OSA, As Pseudo-Pletho. The Sixteenth-Century
Treatise Pletho In Aristotelem and The Scribe Michael Martinus
Stella.(Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2005)
Kristeller Reconsidered: Essays on His Life and Scholarship, Ed.
(New York: Italica Press, 2006) (Forthcoming)
Bessarion Scholasticus, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 2009
Eusebii Pamphili De Evangelica Preparatione in Traductione Georgii
Trapezuntii, Italian National Series of Renaissance Translations,
2010 (?)
Georgii Amerutzae Dialogus de Fide, Fondazione Giorgio Cini,
Venice, 2010 (?)
ARTICLES:
“Il Perotti e la controversia tra platonici ed aristotelici,” Res
Publica Litterarum, 4 (1981):195-231
“Bessarion Latinus,” Rinascimento, s. 2, 21 (1981): 165-209.
“Still More on Bessarion Latinus,” Rinascimento, s.
2, 23 (1983):217-35
“The Bessarion Missal Revisited,” Scriptorium, 37 (1983):119-22
“Sermons of Giles of Viterbo as Bishop,” in Egidio da Viterbo, O.S.A.
e il suo tempo. (Rome, 1983), l37-89
“The Byzantine Rhetorical Tradition and the Renaissance,” in Renaissance
Eloquence, ed. J. J. Murphy (Berkeley - Los Angeles: California
UP, 1983), 174-87
“A Description of the Sistine Chapel under Pope Sixtus IV,” Artibus
et Historiae, 7 (1983):9-18
“Alexius Celadenus and Ottaviano Ubaldini: An Epilogue to Bessarion's
Relationship with the Court of Urbino,” Bibliothèque d'Humanisme
et Renaissance, 46 (1984):95-110
“A Philosophical Text of Andronicus Callistus Misattributed to Nicholas
Secundinus,” in Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth,
2 vols. (Florence: Giunti Barbera, 1985), 2:395-406
“Platina, Capranica, and Perotti: Bessarion's Latin Eulogists and His
Date of Birth,” in Bartolomeo Sacchi Il Platina (Piadena 1421
- Roma 1481), ed. P. Medioli Masotti (Padua: Antenore, 1986), 97-136
“Three Notes on Renaissance Rhetoric,”
Rhetorica. A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, 5 (1987):107-118
“Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in Mid-Quattrocento Rome,” in Supplementum
Festivum. Studies in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, eds. J. Hankins,
J. Monfasani, and F. Purnell, Jr. (Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance
Texts & Studies, 1987), 189-219
“For the History of Marsilio Ficino's Translation of Plato: The Revision
Mistakenly Attributed to Ambrogio Flandino, Simon Grynaeus' Revision
of 1532, and the Anonymous Revision of 1556/1557,” Rinascimento,
27 (1987):293-99
“Humanism and Rhetoric,” in Albert Rabil, Jr., ed., Renaissance
Humanism: Foundations, Forms, and Legacy, 3 vols., (Philadelphia:
U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1988), 3:171-235
“The First Call for Press Censorship: Niccolò Perotti, Giovanni
Andrea Bussi, Antonio Moreto and the Editing of Pliny's Natural History,”
Renaissance Quarterly, 41 (1988):1-31.
“Calfurnio's Identification of Pseudepigrapha of Ognibene, Fenestella,
and Trebizond, and His Attack on Renaissance Commentaries,” Renaissance
Quarterly, 41 (1988):32-43
“Was Lorenzo Valla An Ordinary Language Philosopher?” Journal of
the History of Ideas, 50 (1988):309-23
“Bessarion, Valla, Agricola, and Erasmus,”
Rinascimento, ser. 2., 28 (1988):319-20
“Bernardo Giustiniani and Alfonso de Palencia: Their Hands, and Some
New Texts, and Translations,” Scriptorium, 42 (1989):223-38
“Lorenzo Valla and Rudolph Agricola,” Journal of the History of
Philosophy, 28 (1990):181-200
“In Praise of Ognibene and Blame of Guarino: Andronicus Contoblacas'
Invective against Niccolò Botano and the Citizens of Brescia,”
Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 52 (1990):309-21
“L'insegnamento universitario e la cultura bizantina in Italia nel Quattrocento,”
in Sapere e/è potere, ed. Luisa Avellini et al. (Bologna,
1990), 1:43-65
“The Fraticelli and Clerical Wealth in Quattrocento Rome,” in J. Monfasani
and R. Musto, eds., Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor
of Eugene F. Rice, Jr. (New York, 1991), 177-95
“Hermes Trismegistus, Rome, and the Myth
of Europa: An Unknown Text of Giles of Viterbo,” Viator, 22
(1991):311-42
“A Theologian at the Roman Curia in the Mid-Quattrocento: A Bio-bibliographical
Study of Niccolò Palmieri, O.S.A.,” Analecta Augustiniana,
54 (1991):321-81; 55 (1992):5-98
“Platonic Paganism in the Fifteenth Century,” in M. A. Di Cesare, ed.,
Reconsidering the Renaissance (Binghamton, NY, 1992): 45-61
“Testi inediti di Bessarione e Teodoro Gaza,” in M. Cortesi and E. V.
Maltese, ed., Dotti bizantini e libri greci nell'Italia del secolo
XV: Atti del Convegno internazionale, Trento 22-23 ottobre 1990 (Naples,
1992): 231-56
“Episodes of Anti-Quintilianism in the Italian Renaissance: Quarrels
on the Orator as a Vir Bonus and Rhetoric as the Scientia
Bene Dicendi,” Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric,
10 (1992):119-38
“The Averroism of John Argyropoulos and His Quaestio utrum intellectus
humanus sit perpetuus,” I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance,
5 (1993):157-208
“Aristotelians, Platonists, and the Missing Ockhamists: Philosophical
Liberty in Pre-Reformation Italy,” Renaissance Quarterly, 46
(1993):247-76.
“Introduction” to,” Incunabula: The Printing Revolution in Europe,
1455-1500. Incunabula Unit 2: The Classics in Translation, editor-in-chief
L. Hellinga (Reading, England: Research Publications, 1993), 13–17.
“Pletone, Bessarione e la processione dello Spirito Santo: un testo
inedito e un falso,” in P. Viti, ed., Firenze e il Concilio del
1439. Convegno di Studi, Firenze, 29 novembre - 2 dicembre 1989,
2 vols. (Florence, 1994), 2:833-59
“Bessarion's (Quod Natura Consulto Agat)
in MS Vat. Gr. 1720,” in G. Fiaccadori, ed., Bessarione e l'Umanesimo.
Catalogo della mostra (Naples, 1994), 323-24
“L'insegnamento di Teodoro Gaza a Ferrara,” in Marco Bertozzi, ed.,
Alla corte degli Estensi: filosofia, arte e cultura a Ferrara nei
secoli XV e XVI. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Ferrara,
5-7 marzo 1992 (Ferrara: Università degli Studi, 1994), 5-17
“The De Doctrina Christiana and Renaissance Rhetoric,” in E.
D. English, ed., Reading and Wisdom: The De Doctrina Christiana
of Augustine in the Middle Ages (Notre Dame, 1995), 172-88
“Giovanni Gatti of Messina: A Profile and an Unedited Text,” in Filologia
umanistica per Gianvito Resta, ed. V. Fera and G. Ferraú, 3 vols.
(Padua, 1997), 2:1315–38.
“Erasmus, the Roman Academy, and Ciceronianism: Battista Casali’s Invective,
Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook, 17 (1997):19–54.
“Humanism” in cooperation with Brian Copenhaver, in Richard H. Popkin,
ed., The Columbia History of Western Philosophy (New York,
1998), 292–303.
“The Ciceronian Controversy,” in The Cambridge History of Literary
Criticism. Vol. 3: The Renaissance, ed. Glyn P. Norton
(Cambridge, 1999), 395–401.
“The Pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata and Aristotle’s De
Animalibus in the Renaissance,” in Natural Patritculars: Nature
and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe, ed. A. Grafton and N.
Siraisi (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999), 205–47.
“The Theology of Lorenzo Valla,” in Jill Kraye and M. W. F. Stone, eds.,
Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2000),
1–23.
“Greek and Latin Learning in Theodore Gaza’s Antirrheticon,”
in Renaissance Readings of the Corpus Aristotelicum, ed. M.
Pade (Copenhagen, 2000), pp. 61–78.
“Toward the Genesis of the Kristeller Thesis of Renaissance Humanism:
Four Bibliographical Notes,” Renaissance Quarterly, 53 (2000):1156–73.
“Disputationes Vallianae,” in Penser
entre les lignes: Philologie et Philosophie au Quattrocento, ed.
F. Mariani Zini (Lille: Presses Universitaires de Septentrion, 2001),
pp. 229–50.
“Theodore Gaza as a Philosopher,” in Manuele Crisolora e il ritorno
del greco in Occidente. Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Napoli, 26-29
giugno 1997), ed. Riccardo Maisano and Antonio Rollo (Naples: Istituto
Universitario Orientale, 2002), pp. 269–81.
“Nicholas of Cusa, the Byzantines, and the Greek Language,” in Nicolaus
Cusanus zwischen Deutschland und Italien, ed. Martin Thurner (Berlin,
2002), pp. 215–52.
“Greek Renaissance Migrations,” Italian History and Culture,
(2002): 1–14.
“Marsilio Ficino and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy,” in M. J. Allen
and V. Rees, ed., Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His Philosophy,
His Legacy, Leiden: Brill, 2002, pp. 179–202.
“Scienza e religione,” in Storia della scienza, ed. Sandro
Petruccioli, 4 (Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2001 [recte,
2002]): 684–91.
“The Puzzling Dates of Paolo Cortesi,” in Humanistica per Cesare
Vasoli, ed. Fabrizio Meroi and Elisabetta Scapparone (Florence:
Leo S. Olschki, 2004). 87–97.
“Renaissance Ciceronianism and Christianity,” in Patrick Gilli, ed.,
Humanisme et église en Italie et en France méridonale
(XVe siècle - milieu du XVIe siècle), Collection
de l’École française de Rome, 330 (Rome, 2004): 361–79.
“Umanesimo italiano e cultura europea” in Il Rinascimento italiano
e l’Europa. I. Storia e storigorafia, ed. Marcello Fantoni
(Vincenza: Fondazione Cassamarca - Angelo Colla Editore, 2005), pp.
49–70.
“Niccolò Perotti’s Date of Birth and His Preface to De Generibus
Metrorum,” Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche filosofice
e materiali storico-testuali, 11.1 (2005): 118-21.
“Manuscripts,” in John Monfasani, ed., The Scholarship of Paul Oskar
Kristeller, 183-211.
“The “Lost” Final Part of George Amiroutzes’ Dialogus de Fide in
Christum and Zanobi Acciaiuoli,” in Humanism and Creativity
in the Italian Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Ronald G. Witt,
ed. C. Celenza and K. Gouwens (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 197-229.
“Pletho’s Date of Death And the Burning of His Laws,” Byzantinische
Zeitschrift, 98 (2006): 93-97.
“The Renaissance as the Culminating Phase of the Middle Ages,” Bullettino
dell’Istituto Storico Italiano Per Il Medio Evo, 108 (2006): 165-85.
“Angelo Poliziano, Aldo Manuzio, Theodore Gaza, George of Trebizond
and Chapter 90 of the Miscellaneorum Centuria Prima (With an
Edition and Translation),” in A. Mazzocco, ed., Interpretations
of Renaissance Humanism (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 243-65.
“The Many Lives of Paul Oskar Kristeller,” in Wm. Theodore de Bary,
ed., Living Legacies at Columbia (New York: Columbia University
Press, 2006), 107-15.
“George of Trebizond’s Critique of Theodore Gaza’s Translation of the
Aristotelian Problemata,” in Pieter De Leemans and Michèle
Goyens, eds., Aristotle’s Problemata in Different Times
and Tongues (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2006), 275-94.
“The Augustinian Platonists,” in Sebastiano Gentile and Stéphane
Toussaint, eds., Marsilio Ficino: fonti, testi, fortuna (Rome:
Storia e Letteratura, 2006), pp. 317-39.
“Giles of Viterbo as Alter Orpheus,” in Luisa Simonutti, ed.,
Forme del neoplatonismo: Dall'eredità ficiniana ai platonici
di Cambridge (Florence: L. S. Olschki, 2007), 97-115.
“Bessarion’s Own Translation of the In Calumniatorem Platonis”
thirty pages in typescript to appear in the proceedings of the international
conference I bizantini mandarini, Fondazione Giorgio Cini,
Venice, June 2005
“Criticism of Biblical Humanists in Quattrocento Italy,” 32 pp. in typescript,
forthcoming in Erika Rummel, ed., Handbook of Biblical Humanism
(Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2008).
“A Tale of Two Books: Bessarion’s In Calumniatorem Platonis
and George of Trebizond’s Comparatio Philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis,”
Studies in the Renaissance, 22.1 (2008): 1-13.
“Aristotle as the Scribe of Nature: The Frontispiece of Vat. Lat. 2094
and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Fifteenth Century,” forthcoming
in The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes.
“Two Fifteenth-Century ‘Platonic Academies’: Bessarion's and Ficino's,
forthcoming in the proceedings of the international conference “From
the Roman Academy to the Danish Academy in Rome,” October, 2006, Rome.
“Prisca Theologia in the Plato-Aristotle Controversy,” forthcoming in
the proceedings of the international conference “The Rebirth of Platonic
Theology,” Florence, Italy, 26-27 April 2007.
“Catholic American Exchange,” forthcoming in the proceedings of the
conference “Catholicism as Decadence,” June 2003 and June 2004, Fiesole,
Italy.
“Gaspare Zacchi, Pietro Balbi, and Unidentified Renaissance Translations,”
forthcoming in the Festschrift for Marino Zorzi, Librarian of the Biblioteca
Marciana
SELECT HONORS AND AWARDS
Honors:
Executive Director, Renaissance Society of America
Fellow of the Venetian Academy of Science “Ateneo Veneto,” elected August
1992
William Nelson Best Article Prize of the Renaissance Society of America,
1988
Excellence in Research Award from the State University of New York at
Albany, 1982
John Nicholas Brown Best First Book Prize of the Medieval Academy of
America, 1980
Awards and Fellowships:
Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, Washington, D.C., Senior Fellowship,
Spring 2004
The National Endowment for the Humanities, Senior Fellowship, 1995-96
The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1987-88
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa
I Tatti . The Leopold Schepp Foundation, 1982-83.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1980-81.
American Council of Learned Societies, Recent Ph.D. Fellowship, Spring
1977.
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa
I Tatti, 1973-74.
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