Book Symposium with Prof. Hilary Gatti @ UNSW

Book Symposium with Prof. Hilary Gatti
“Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton (Princeton University Press)” with William Walker (UNSW), Francesco Borghesi (USYD) and Miguel Vatter (UNSW)

Date: Monday 21 March 2016
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Venue: Morven Brown 310, UNSW
Contact: To register for the symposium please contact Miguel Vatter m.vatter@unsw.edu.au

Proudly sponsored by the Biopolitical Studies Research Network and the School of Social Sciences.

Europe’s long sixteenth century—a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s—was an era of power struggles between avaricious and unscrupulous princes, inquisitions and torture chambers, and religious differences of ever more violent fervor. “Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe” argues that this turbulent age also laid the conceptual foundations of our modern ideas about liberty, justice, and democracy.


Hilary Gatti was born and studied in Great Britain, until she married and moved to Italy in 1961. She started teaching English Language and Literature in the Letters and Philosophy Faculty of the State University of Milan in 1964, and then as Associate Professor in the Letters and Philosophy Faculty of the State University of Rome “La Sapienza” until her retirement in 2006. She has published extensively on renaissance literature and philosophy, and is the author of The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge: Giordano Bruno in England (Routledge), Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science (Cornell University Press) and Essays on Giordano Bruno (Princeton University Press).