Maude Vanhaelen

Education/Qualifications:        

·       1995-1999: Undergraduate degree in Classics, University of Brussels, Belgium (Grande Distinction)

·       1999-2000: Master of Studies in Classics, University of Oxford (Distinction) (fully funded by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation)

·       2001-2005: PhD in Classics, University of Brussels, Belgium (fully funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique)

·       2008: Postgraduate Teaching Certificate in Higher Education, University of Warwick

Previous Appointments held:              

·       2005-2006: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford, Faculty of Classics (fully funded by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation)

·       2006-2007: Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies, Florence (fully funded)

·       2007-2010: RCUK Assistant Professor, Departments of Classics and Italian (joint post), University of Warwick, UK

·       2010-2019: Associate Professor, Departments of Classics and Italian (joint post), University of Warwick, UK

·       2019-2021: Associate Professor promoted to Reader, Departments of Classics and Italian (joint post), University of Warwick, UK

·       Italy and the Making of Antiquity, Winter 2023

·       Introduction to the Italian Renaissance, Fall 2023

·       Classical Civilisation, Winter 2024

·       Greek History from the Bronze Age to Alexander the Great, Winter 2024

Monography :

·       Marsilio Ficino, Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides. A Critical Edition with English Translation and Notes, 2 vols, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 2012, 778 pages. 

Reviews: Open Letters Weekly, October 2012; Journal of History of Philosophy 51/3 (2013), pp. 485-6; Renaissance Quarterly 66/2 (2013), pp. 587-8); Actu Philosophia (October 2014, http://www.actu-philosophia.com/Marsile-Ficin-Commentaire-du-Parmenide-de-Platon)

Edited Volumes :

·       With Eva del Soldato (eds.), Teaching Plato in Renaissance Italian Universities, Turnhout, Brepols, Studia Artistarum, à paraître [2023], 300 pages.

·  With Jcomien Prins (eds.), Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of the Pythagorean Music of the Universe, Routledge, Warwick Series in the Humanities, 2017, 294 pages.

Reviews: History of Humanities 4/2 (2019), pp. 475-478 ; Renaissance Quarterly 72/1 (2019), pp. 357-359 ; Nuncius 34/2 (2019), pp. 463-464 ; Renaissance Studies 34/2 (2020), pp. 317-319.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

·       ‘Classical Influences in Neo-Latin Poetry’, in C. Keen, R. Daniels et G. Armstrong (éds), Cambridge History of Poetry in Italy, 1200-1600, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 47 pages.

·       ‘Teaching Plato in Renaissance Italy’, dans M. Vanhaelen and E. Del Soldato (éds.), Teaching Plato in Italian Renaissance Universities, Turnhout, Brepols, forthcoming, 40 pages.

·       ‘Chrysostomus Javelli’s Commentaries on Plato’s Moral Philosophy’, in T. De Robertis and L. Burzelli (éds.), Chrysostomus Javelli: Pagan Philosophy and Christian Thought in the Renaissance, New York, Springer, 2023, pp. 171-194.

·   ‘Éclectisme, aristotélisme et platonisme dans la pensée italienne du 16ème siècle’, in D. Dumouchel and C. Leduc (éds.), Les -ismes et catégories historiographiques: Formation et usage à l'époque moderne, Québec, Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2021, pp. 95-112.

·  With Dario Brancato, ‘Francesco Cattani da Diacceto and Boethius: A Neoplatonic Reading of the Consolatio in 16th-century Florence’, Accademia. Revue de la Société Marsile Ficin  XV (2015 [2017]), pp. 1-41.

·       ‘Cosmic Harmony, Demons, and the Mnemonic Power of Music in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Marsilio Ficino’, dans J. Prins and M. Vanhaelen (eds.), Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres. Renaissance Conceptions of the Pythagorean Music of the Spheres, Routledge Warwick Series in the Humanities, 2017, pp. 2-22. 

·       ‘What is the Best Method to Study Philosophy? Sebastiano Erizzo (1525-1585) and the ‘revival’ of Plato in 16th-century Venice’, Italian Studies  71/3 (2016), pp. 1-24.

·       ‘Platonism in Sixteenth-Century Padua: Two Unpublished Letters from Sebastiano Erizzo to Camilla Erculiani’, Bruniana&Campanelliana 22/1 (2016), pp. 137-147.

·       ‘Marsilio Ficino and the Irrational’, dans M. Israels and L. A. Waldman (éds.), Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, Florence, Olchki, 2013, pp. 438-444.

·       ‘Ficino’s commentary on St Paul’s First Epistle to the Romans (1497): An anti-Savonarolan Reading of Vision and Prophecy’, dans J. Hankins and F. Meroi (éds.), The Rebirth of the Platonic Theology. Volume in honour of M. J. B. Allen, Istituto di Studi sul Rinascimento, Florence, 2013, pp. 205-233.

·       ‘“Cose di Platone fatte Toscane”. Language and ideology in two vernacular translations of Plato printed by Francesco Priscianese’, Modern Language Review 107/4 (2012), pp. 1082-1100.

·       ‘L’entreprise de traduction et d’exégèse de Ficin dans les années 1486-89 : Démons et prophétie à l’aube de l’ère savonarolienne’, Humanistica  4/1 (2010), pp. 125-136.

·       ‘Greek Philosophy in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (600-1600)’ dans M. Gagarin (éd.), The Oxford Encyclopedia for Ancient Greece and Rome, Oxford, 2009.

·       ‘The Pico-Ficino Controversy: New Evidence in Ficino’s Commentary on the Parmenides’, Rinascimento  XLIX (2009), pp. 1-39.

·       ‘L'être et l’Un à la Renaissance : La réfutation du De Ente et Uno de Pic dans l’In Parmenidem de Ficin’, dans M. Broze, B. Decharneux, et S. Delcomminette (éds.), Mais raconte-moi en détail : mélanges de philosophie et de philologie offerts à Lambros Couloubaritsis, Bruxelles, Ousia, pp. 623-635.

·       ‘Liberté, astrologie et fatalité: Marsile Ficin et le De Fato de Plotin’, Accademia. Revue de la société Marsile Ficin, VII (2007), pp. 45-60.

·       ‘Traduction annotée de l’In Charmidem vel de temperantia argumentum  de Marsile Ficin’, Accademia. Revue de la société Marsile Ficin IV (2002), pp. 19-28.

·       ‘Marsilio Ficino’s version of Plato’s Euthyphro’, Scriptorium  56/1 (2002), pp. 20-47.

·       ‘Marsile Ficin, lecteur et interprète du Charmide de Platon’, Accademia. Revue de la Société Marsile Ficin 3 (2001), pp. 23-52.

Book Reviews:

·       Patrick Baker, Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, Modern Languages Review 2017.

·       Marina S. Brownlee and Dimitri Gondicas (eds.), Renaissance Encounters: Greek East and Latin West, Leiden: Brill, 2012, Renaissance Quarterly 2013.

·       C. Luna and A.-P. Segonds (eds., trans.) Proclus. Commentaire sur le Parménide de Platon. Tome III. 1^e partie: Introduction au livre III. 2^e partie: Livre III, 2 vols., Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2011, Classical Review 2012.

·       M. Pade, The Reception of Plutarch’s Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy, Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen, 2007, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.06.25.

·       M. J. B. Allen and J. Hankins, Marsilio Ficino. Platonic Theology. Volume 4. Books XII-XIV, The I Tatti Renaissance Library, Cambridge, Mass., London, 2004, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.13.

·       M. J. B. Allen, Synoptic Art: Marsilio Ficino on the History of the Platonic Interpretation, Florence, Olchki, 1998, Modern Languages Review 2002.