Professor David A Lines FBA

Summary

An intellectual historian, David Lines has a varied international background, from his upbringing in Italy to his university studies in the USA (PhD in History, Harvard, 1997), postdoctoral fellowships in the Netherlands and (as Alexander von Humboldt Fellow) in Germany, to his present position at the University of Warwick, where he has directed the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and headed the Italian department. He has been a Fellow and a Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti (Harvard University’s Center for the Study of the Italian Renaissance in Florence) and been a visiting fellow at the Istituto di Studi Avanzati at the University of Bologna and at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a socio straniero of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. He directs the book series Warwick Studies in Renaissance Thought and Culture (Brepols).

In his research, often pursued through collaborative funded projects, Lines has emphasized the relationship between Latin and vernacular in Renaissance thought, studied the contours of the Aristotelian tradition, and sought to understand the vitality and interconnectedness of early modern universities (particularly in Italy). His most recent monograph is The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy: Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna (Harvard University Press, 2023). He is currently preparing an edition of university documents for Bologna reaching to c. 1750.