Dr Dilwyn Knox

Director of the School of European Languages, Culture and Society

Reader in Renaissance Studies

email: d.knox@ucl.ac.uk
phone: +44 20 7679 3509
internal-phone: 33509

Tutor for the Renaissance pathway of the MA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS)


Research areas: (i) Renaissance philosophy especially Marsilio Ficino's De amore (El libro dell'amore) and Giordano Bruno's Italian dialogues; (ii) Renaissance cosmology; and (iii) medieval and Renaissance pedagogy.

Publications include:

  • Pseudo-Aristoteles Latinus. A Guide to Latin Works Falsely Attributed to Aristotle Before 1500, (with Charles B. Schmitt), London, 1985. (Warburg Institute Surveys and texts, no. 12.)
  • Ironia. Medieval and Renaissance Ideas on Irony. Brill: Leiden, 1989. (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, vol. 16.) 
  • 'Disciplina: The Monastic and Clerical Origins of European Civility': Renaissance Society and Culture. Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice Jr , eds. John Monfasani and Ronald G. Musto (Italica Press: New York, 1991), pp. 107-136.
  • 'Erasmus's De civilitate and the Religious Origins of Civility in Protestant Europe': Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, Jahrgang 86 (1995), pp. 7-55.
  • 'Ficino, Copernicus and Bruno on the Motion of the Earth': Bruniana & Campanelliana, vol. 5 (1999), pp 333-366.
  • ‘Ficino and Copernicus’, in: Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His Philosophy, His Legacy, eds M. J. B. Allen and V. Rees, with M. C. Davies (Brill: Leiden, 2001), pp. 399-418.
  • ‘Bruno’s Doctrine of Gravity, Levity and Natural Circular Motion’: Physis, new series, vol. 38 (2002), pp. 171-209.

  • ‘Copernicus’s doctrine of gravity and the natural circular motion of the elements’: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 68 (2005), pp.157-211.

    Further information and a full list of publications are available on IRIS