Professor Cecilia Muratori

Cecilia Muratori is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Pavia, Italy, where she leads the ERC project NEWWORLD (newworld.unipv.it). She received her PhD in the History of Philosophy (Urbino and Jena) with a thesis on Hegel’s interpretation of Jacob Böhme’s mysticism. She held fellowships at LMU München, Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, the Warburg Institute, the University of Braunschweig/HAB Wolfenbüttel, and Queen Mary University of London. She was awarded a MSCA Fellowship at Ca' Foscari University of Venice before moving to Pavia. From 2015 to 2019 she worked at the University of Warwick as Research Fellow on the ERC project 'Vernacular Aristotelianism'. She is the author of 'The First German Philosopher': Jakob Böhme’s Mysticism as Interpreted by Hegel (Springer 2016), and Renaissance Vegetarianism: The Philosophical Afterlives of Porphyry's On Abstinence (Legenda 2020). She co-edits the Brill's Series in Philosophical Historiographies.