Luisa Simonutti Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno – C.N.R. Via Cozzi, 53 - 20125 MILAN (Italy) tel. +39 02 66173329 - fax: +39 02 66173377 - mobile: +39.3381554489 email: [email protected] PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Present position Research Director for the National Research Council (CNR) ISPF-Milan, Italy. Research Associate at ‘Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies’ CREMS-University of York (01/2020-currently) 2020 Short-term mobility fellowship awarded by CNR at Department of Philosophy, University of York, January-February 2020. 2019 Visiting research fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Chapman University, Orange, California (USA), July-August 2019. 2018 Visiting Professor, at the Maison de l’histoire, University of Geneva, and at the Institut d'histoire de la Réformation, University of Geneva, December 2018. 2018 Visiting research fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Chapman University, Orange, California (USA), July-August 2018. 2017 Visiting research fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Chapman University, Orange, California (USA), July-August 2017. 2016 Visiting Professor at Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France, January-March 2016. 2016 Visiting research fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Chapman University, Orange, California (USA), July 2016. 2015 Short-term mobility fellowship awarded by CNR at Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France, June 2015. 2015 Visiting research fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Chapman University, Orange, California (USA), July 2015. 2014 Visting as "Directeur d'Etudes Associé" at Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, October –November 2014. 2000 to 2009 Lecturer at the University of Ferrara, Italy - Philosophy Department. 2008 Short-term mobility fellowship awarded by CNR at Institut Claude Longeon, Francia —CNRS / UMR 5037. Institut d'histoire de la pensée classique. 2005 Visiting Professor, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, V Sezione, Sorbonne – Paris, February-March, 2005. 2003 Visiting Professor, University of Geneva, IHR, Summer doctoral courses, June 2003. 1999 Short-term mobility fellowship awarded by CNR at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. 1998 "Temporary professorship" at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli, Philosophy Department. 1990 "Temporary professorship" at the University of Trieste - Philosophy Department. 1989 Summer Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. 1988 Summer Fellowship - Frances A. Yates Fellowship at the Warburg Institute, London. 1982-1984 Research fellow at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris and at l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne – Paris, France. CURRICULUM STUDIORUM 1975-1979 University studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. 13 March 1980 Graduating thesis in Philosophy, graduated "summa cum laude", at University of Pisa, Italy. CURRICULUM VITAE and PUBLICATIONS – PAGE 1 Luisa Simonutti Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno – C.N.R. Via Cozzi, 53 - 20125 MILAN (Italy) tel. +39 02 66173329 - fax: +39 02 66173377 - mobile: +39.3381554489 email: [email protected] 13 March 1980 "Diploma in Philosophy" from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. 1981-1983 "Perfezionamento" and postgraduate course at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. 1985 - 1989 "Specialisation" and postgraduate course at Section IV - Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne – Paris - Director of Studies, Paul Dibon. ACADEMIC TITLES - AWARDS • Degree in Philosophy awarded, in 1980, by the University of Pisa, Italy. • "Diploma di Licenza" in Philosophy awarded, in 1980, by the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. • Award of multi-year scholarship of the Ministry of Public Education (General Dir. Div.V, Section IV) of specialization at foreign institutions of university level (assignment 30.01.1985) Prot. N. 7453. • Award of position of fixed-term Researcher - 3rd level (CNR, 01.12.1994 and subsequent renewal), Pos. 354.1041, Prot. 1494004. • Award of a position of tenure Researcher - 3rd level (CNR, 05.12.2001). prot. N. 1841437. • Letter of encomium of the President of the National Research Council, 19 October 2004 prot. FP / 571. • Award of a position of First Researcher - II level (CNR,01.01.2006), Pos. 301.12321, Prot. 0060334 of 06.08.2007. • Idoneità for Research Director (CNR, 4 febbraio 2011). • Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale - Professore di Prima fascia (MIUR, 5 febbraio 2014) • Idoneità for Research Director (CNR, 28.06. 2017). • Idoneità for Research Director (CNR, 29.04. 2019). • Award of position as “Arminius Fellow” at the Scaliger Institute – Leiden, 2020-2021. • Idoneità for selection for Director of ISPF-CNR (CNR, 16.07.2020). • Award of a position of Research Director – (CNR, 13.08.2020) Languages: Italian (native language), French, English, Arabic (basic reading). MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS • Research into the political-theological debate, on translation and philosophy, and on the cultural transfer between Europe and the Mediterranean Basin in modern times. • English moralists - the Cambridge Neo-Platonists in particular - continental philosophy, the Remonstrants. • The diffusion of Spinoza’s works in England during the 17th century, particularly among the Cambridge Platonists, the Deists, the Latitudinarians, and among certain scientists involved in the Royal Society and the Boyle lectures. • Research into the philosophical-political thought of French Protestants during the second half of the 16th and in the 17th century. In particular, the idea of toleration and the right of resistance (XVI-XVIII). Study of aspects of the work of Pierre Bayle. • The significance of the political-religious and scientific debate which was going on in Holland during the years 1683-89 in terms of Locke’s thought. The Arminians, Unitarians and Quakers and Locke's thought. The last works of Locke. Analysis of Locke’s biblical hermeneutics. • Translation and philosophy in modern times. The dictionary of the translators: 1600-1800. • The editing and study of several works by Cardano, and of various aspects of Lombard Renaissance culture. CURRICULUM VITAE and PUBLICATIONS – PAGE 2 Luisa Simonutti Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno – C.N.R. Via Cozzi, 53 - 20125 MILAN (Italy) tel. +39 02 66173329 - fax: +39 02 66173377 - mobile: +39.3381554489 email: [email protected] • The diffusion within Italy of the ideas of Newton and Leibniz ideas regarding infinitesimal calculus (V. F. Stancari, Celestino Galiani, Guido Grandi). Main Lectureship at International Conferences in the last 5 year • On Jean Henri Samuel Formey, in: “ Workshop on Correspondence”, European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana (FI), 29 April 2015. • On Enlightenment in: “Enlightenment Workshop/ Giornata Illuministica”, European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana (FI), 3rd of June 2015. • Relazione: “Impostures innocentes: l’iconografia di Bernard Picart e le Cérémonies tra Olanda e Inghilterra”, al convegno: “Italia ed Europa tra Rinascimento e prima età moderna”, SNS, Pisa INSR, Firenze, 10-12 dicembre 2015. • Relazione: Da Gerdil a Marugi: rirese malebranchiane e letture lockiane al convegno “Malebranche e i suoi contemporanei”, ISPF- Dipart. di studi umanistici, Univ. Federico II, Napoli 15-16 dicembre 2015. • Relazione: Paradigmi d’eresia: socinianesimo e maomettanesimo tra Inghilterra e Francia (Stubbe, Locke, De La Croze, Bayle) al convegno “Le ragioni degli altri. Dissidenza religiosa e filosofia nell’età moderna”, Università di Venezia, 21-22 gennaio 2016. • Conferenza: “Traduire, transferre au XVII siècle: les philosophes à l'épreuve de la traduction" nel “Séminaire d’histoire des idées), Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, 4 febbraio 2016. • Relazione “Consciousness et plastick natures: Cudworth et Bayle” al convegno: "La pensée en devenir. Réception du platonisme et du néoplatonisme dans l'histoire de la philosophie", Université Lyon III, 9-11 marzo 2016. • Relazione “Rappresentazioni della barbarie e inquietudine religiosa tra Sei e Settecento (Bayle, Picart), in: Convegno “Barbarie in età moderna e contemporanea” ISPF, Milano 17-18 novembre 2016. • Relazione “Empathie versus barbarie: une stratégie pour le présent” al convegno: «La barbarie à l’époque moderne et contemporaine» UniversitéParis Descartes, Sorbonne, Paris, 9-10 dicembre 2016. • Civil religion in Seventeenth Century England: questions and notes, in “Workshop Early Modern Civil Religion”, Newcastle, 14th September 2017, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, Newcastle University, UK. • Privilege or Understanding? In Search of a Cognitive Paradigm in Emotions Research, al convegno 'Emotions of Cultures/Cultures of Emotions: Comparative Perspectives' , 11‒13 December 2017, Perth, The University of Western Australia (UWA). • The material history and migration of objects: the carpets, al convegno "Entangled Histories of Things in the Mediterranean World", Perth, 14 December 2017, The University of Western Australia (UWA). • Pensieri itineranti. Raccolte epistolari e filosofia nel Seicento, in “L’epistolografia di antico regime”, Viterbo, 15-17 febbraio 2018. • John Locke, civil religion and Biblical hermeneutics, in “European Academy of Religion – Annual conference”, Bologna, 6 marzo 2018. • John Locke: prerogativa del sovrano e tolleranza, Scuola