Dr. Hanna Gentili

Research Associate (HEPMASITE)

• Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Philosophy
• Interaction between philosophy and mysticism (15th-16th centuries)
• History of reading and learning practices
• History of the Hebrew book

2023-           European Association for Jewish Studies

2017-           World Union of Jewish Studies

2017-2021  Renaissance Society of America

- ‘The Art of Thinking and the Reception of the Parva naturalia in a Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Source,’ in ‘Arts de penser: du « naturel» à l’algèbre symbolique,’ Revue de synthèse, tome 1:43, 7e série, n. 3-4 (2022), pp. 321–347.

- ‘Aristotelian Moral Philosophy and Jewish Ethics in Yoḥanan Alemanno,’ in ‘Intellect, Salvation and Linguistic Identity in Renaissance Philosophy,’ Bruniana & Campanelliana, 1/2022, pp. 19–33.

- ‘The Philosophical Background of Yoḥanan Alemanno: Remarks on Logic and Psychology,’ in ‘Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfer,’ European Journal of Jewish Studies, 16 (2022), pp. 71–92.

- ‘The Virtues of the Pagans between Prophecy and Rhetoric in the Work of Gianfrancesco Pico Della Mirandola,’ in Inexcusabiles: Salvation and the Virtues of the Pagans in the Early Modern Period, ed. Alberto Frigo, International Archives of the History of Ideas (Dordrecht: Springer, 2020), pp. 33–44.