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James Hankins (Associate Editors) 1 Note: many more recent articles have been posted on academia.edu and dash.harvard.edu. IN PRESS “Vocal Music at Literary Banquets in the Italian Renaissance,” forthcoming in Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis. “Greek Constitutional Theory in the Renaissance.” Forthcoming in the proceedings of the conference The Loeb Library and Its Progeny: Translation and the Transformation of Antiquity; Access, Appropriation and Cultural Connections. Murnau and Munich, 18-21 May 2017. “Alberti on Corrupt Princes and Virtuous Oligarchs,” to appear in the proceedings of the conference “Alberti ludens: A Conference in Memory of Cecil Grayson” University of Oxford, 26-27 June 2017, in Albertiana. “Republicanism, Virtue and Tyranny,” in Al di là dell’repubblicanesimo, etc. Naples, 16-17 April 2018 “The Italian Humanists and the Virtue of Humanitas,” Rinascimento (2020). “The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena,” to appear in a Festschrift for Robert Black, ed. Jonathan Davies and John Monfasani (Leiden and London: E. J. Brill). “The King’s Citizens: Francesco Patrizi of Siena on Citizenship in Monarchies.” To appear in a Festschrift for Craig W. Kallendorf. (Brill) 2020 173. “Hyperpartisanship.” Claremont Review of Books (Winter 2019/2020), 8-17. 2019 172. Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2019. xxiii + 736 pages. 171. “Missionaries of Humanity: Popular Confucianism in China,” American Affairs (November 2019), 154-167. 2 170. “Being Leonardo” (exhibition review), in The New Criterion 38.4 (2019): 4-8. 169. “Thinking about the Ottoman Threat,” review of Noel Malcolm, Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750 (Oxford University Press 2019), in The New Criterion (November 2019), 13-17. 168. “Verrocchio: the master’s master” (exhibition review) in New Criterion 38.1 (September 2019): 47-51. 167. “Boccaccio and the Political Thought of Renaissance Humanism,” in A Boccaccian Renaissance: Essays on the Early Modern Impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and His Works, ed. Martin Eisner and David Lummus (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press), 3-35. Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature, 17. 166. “Manetti’s Socrates and the Socrateses of Antiquity,” no. 111, below, reprinted in Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Socrates, ed. Christopher Moore (Boston-Leiden: E. J. Brill), 619-634. 165. “The Virtue Politics of the Italian Humanists,” in Beyond Reception: Renaissance Humanism and the Transformation of Classical Antiquity, Patrick Baker, Johannes Helmrath, and Craig Kallendorf, eds. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019), 95-114. 164. “Impeachment and the Renaissance,” Commentary, Wall Street Journal 23 December. 2018 163. “Was Caesar a Tyrant? A Humanist Debate on Virtue and Political Legitimacy,” in Why Polities Decline: Corruption, Tyranny and Bad Leadership, Kurt Almqvist & Mattias Hessérus, eds. (Stockholm: The Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2018). 162. “Confucianism and Meritocracy: Light from the East,” American Affairs 2.3 (Fall 2018): 98-112. Published in Chinese translation by Wu Wanwei on the website of Beijing University. 161. “Filelfo and Sparta,” in Francesco Filelfo, Man of Letters, ed. Jeroen De Keyser (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2018), 81-96. 160. “The Forgotten Virtue,” in First Things (December 2018) 3 2017 159. “Marsilio Ficino and Christian Humanism,” Zimmermann, J. (2017). Re-envisioning Christian humanism : Education and the restoration of humanity(First ed.). Oxford ; New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 158. “The Unpolitical Petrarch: Justifying the Life of Literary Retirement,” in Et amicorum: Essays on Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy in Honour of Jill Kraye, edited by Anthony Ossa-Richardson and Margaret Meserve, Leiden, Brill, 2017, pp. 7-32. 157. “Leonardo Bruni and Machiavelli on the Lessons of Florentine History,” in Le cronache volgari in Italia: Atti della VI Settimana di studi eedievali (Roma, 13-15 maggio 2015). Edited by Giampaolo Francesconi and Massimo Miglio, 373-95. Nuovi Studi Storici 105. Rome: Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo, 2017. 156. “Leonardo Bruni’s Laudatio Florentine urbis, Dante, and ‘Virtue Politics’,” Bullettino dell’ Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 119 (2017): 1-25. 155. “Biondo Flavio on the Roman Republic,” in The Invention of Rome: Biondo Flavio’s Roma Triumphans and its Worlds. Edited by Frances Muecke and Maurizio Campanelli, 101-118. Travaux d’humanisme et Renaissance 576. Geneva: Librarie Droz. 154. “Reforming Elites the Confucian Way,” American Affairs 1.2 (Summer 2017): 21-33. 153. “How Not to Defend the Humanities,” American Affairs 1.4 (Winter 2017): 193-209. Translated into Chinese by Wu Wanwei and published on Aisixiang, a website sponsored by Beijing University. http://www.aisixiang.com/data/111037.html 152. “The Botticelli mystique,” (exhibition review), The New Criterion 35.10 (June 2017): 46- 49. 151. “The intimate Michelangelo” (exhibition review), The New Criterion (December 2017): 4- 7. 150. “In Raphael’s Studio” (exhibition review), The New Criterion (Online version, July 27, 2017): 149. “Revolution of the Saints,” Claremont Review of Books 17.4 (Fall 2017). Review of Carlos Eire, Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016). 4 2016 148. Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Translations and Commentaries, Annotated Lists and Guides. Volume XI. Greti Dinkova-Bruum (Editor-in- Chief), Julia Haig Gaisser and James Hankins (Associate Editors). Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, 2016. xxxvi + 416 pp. 147. “Marsilio Ficino and Christian Humanism,” in Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism: Education and the Restoration of Humanity, ed. Jens Zimmermann (Oxford and London: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 54-73. 146. “Europe’s First Democrat? Cyriac of Ancona and Book 6 of Polybius.” For the Sake of Learning: Essays in Honor of Anthony Grafton, Ann Blair and Anja-Silvia Goeing, 2 vols. (Leiden: E. J. Brill), 2: 692-710. 145. “Latin Autographs of Leonardo Bruni.” In Paleography, Manuscript Illumination and Humanism in Renaissance Italy: Studies in Memory of A. C. de la Mare, Robert Black, Jill Kraye and Laura Nuvoloni, eds, 377-84. London-Turin: Warburg Institute – Nino Aragno Editore, 2016. (Warburg Institute Colloquia, 28). 144. “Iamblichus, Ficino and Schleiermacher on the Sources of Religious Knowledge,” Erudition and the Republic of Letters 1 (2016): 1-12. 2015 143. “Humanism and Music in Italy,” in The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music, ed. Anna Maria Busse-Berger and Jesse Rodin, 231-62. Cambridge University Press. 142. “George of Trebizond: Renaissance Libertarian?” In Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters in honor of John Monfasani, edited by Alison K. Frazier and Patrick Noll (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2015), 87-106. Brill Studies in Intellectual History. 2014 141. Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries, vol. X, Greti Dinkova-Bruun (Editor-in-Chief), James Hankins and Robert A. Kaster (Associate Editors). Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, 2014. xxxiv + 403 pp. 5 140. Autografi dei Letterati Italiani, Il Quattrocento, Tomo I, a cura di Francesco Bausi, Maurizio Campanelli, Sebastiano Gentile, James Hankins. Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2013. XV + 484. [Actually published 2014] 139. “Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444),” 83-99, in no. 140. 138. “Leonardo Bruni on the Legitimacy of Constitutions (Oratio in funere Johannis Strozze 19- 23),” in Reading and Writing History from Bruni to Windschuttle: Essays in Honour of Gary Ianziti, ed. Christian Thorsten Callisen (Farnham, Surrey – Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2014), 73- 86. 137. “Charles Fantazzi and the Study of Neo-Latin Literature,” in Neo-Latin and the Humanities: Essays in Honour of Charles E. Fantazzi, ed. Luc Deitz, Timothy Kircher and Jonathan Reid. Publications of the Centre fro Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Essays and Studies, 32. Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, pp. 33-45. 136. “Civic Knighthood in the Early Renaissance: Leonardo Bruni’s De militia (ca. 1420)”, Noctua: International on-line Journal on the History of Philosophy 1.2 (2014): 260-282. 135. “Machiavelli, Civic Humanism, and the Humanist Politics of Virtue,” Italian Culture 32.2 (2014): 98-109. 2013 134. “Editorial Criteria for ‘Provisional Editions’ of Renaissance Latin Texts: Some Comments,” in Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, ed. Machtelt Israëls, Louis Waldman, et al., 581-88. Florence: Leo S. Olschki. 133. The Rebirth of Platonic Theology. Proceedings of a conference held at The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (Florence, 26-27 April 2007). Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Atti di Convegni, 27; Villa I Tatti Series, 30. Edited by James Hankins and Fabrizio Meroi. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2013. VIII + 320 pp. 132. “Ficino’s Critique of Lucretius,” in: The Rebirth of Platonic Theology in Renaissance Italy (above). 2012 6 131. “Petrarch and the Canon of Neo-Latin Literature,” in Petrarca, l’Umanesimo e la civiltà europea. Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Firenze, 5-10 dicembre 2004, II, ed. Donatella Coppini and Michele Feo (= Quaderni petrarcheschi 17-18 [2007-2008]). Florence: Le Lettere, pp. 905-922. [Published in 2012.] 130. “Coluccio
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