A Forgotten Renaissance: The Interplay between Jurisprudence and Humanism (14^th-16^th c.) and Its Cultural Legacy

Giuliano Mori is Associate Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Turin, where his research focuses on Renaissance intellectual history, approached from a distinctly interdisciplinary perspective. Before moving to Turin, he held positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Villa I Tatti (Harvard University), and the University of Milan, whose "Cardano Center for the Study of the Lombard Renaissance" he directs.

He has published widely on Renaissance and early modern authors, including Petrarch, Bruni, Valla, Cardano, Bacon, and Kircher. His recent monographs include Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Oxford, 2024), Pomponio Leto’s De historia (Rome, 2021), Le tracce della verità (Bologna, 2017), and I geroglifici e la croce (Pisa, 2016).

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Simone Miolano holds a PhD in Neo-Latin Philology from the University of Florence, where his doctoral research focused on preparing a critical edition of the Latin letters of Antonio Panormita. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Turin.

His research focuses on Italian humanism in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with particular interests in Latin epistolography, humanist translations from Greek into Latin, and forgeries and pseudepigraphy from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

Within the HumanLaw project, Simone is studying the unpublished correspondence between humanists and jurists. Further information on Simone's research is available on ORCID and Academia profiles.

Timothy Tambassi is a Research Fellow at the University of Turin, where he works in the HUMANLAW project. He is also a member of the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities.

Prior to joining Turin, he was a Research Fellow at Ca’ Foscari, an Assistant Professor at the University of Salerno, an Adjunct Professor and a Research Fellow at the University of Eastern Piedmont, and an ICUB Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bucharest.

His main interests of research include Applied Ontology, the Philosophy of Geography, and the Philosophy of AI.

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Oliver Francesco Brenna is a doctoral candidate (XLII cycle) at the University of Turin. His research project aims to analyse the intersection between legal knowledge and humanistic, philosophical and literary interests in the personalities and works of Italian jurists of the fourteenth century.

He holds a Master’s degree in Philology, Literatures and History of Antiquity from the University of Milan, where he wrote a thesis on the antiquarian commentary on Augustine’s De civitate Dei by John Ridewall, O.F.M.

His master’s thesis and current research project are part of a broader interest in the relationship between medieval intellectuals and the legacy of classical culture.

François Waquet holds a PhD in Law from Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas. Having previously held a postdoctoral research position at the Collège de France, in the Chair of “Law, Culture and Society of Ancient Rome”, he is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Turin.

His research focuses on Roman law and the medieval and modern traditions of its language and legal techniques.

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Anna Mangiullo is a Research Project Assistant for the ERC projects at the University of Turin. She holds a Master's Degree in Russian Language and Literature, with a thesis dedicated to Russian Cosmism.

She has lived in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. She has worked several years at McKinsey & Company while also carrying out translation projects from Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish into Italian.

She is also part of the Artistic Direction of Slavika, the first Italian festival dedicated to Slavic and Central European culture, organized every year in Turin by the Polski Kot association.