Cecilia Muratori

Cecilia is the Principal Investigator of NEWWORLD, and Full Professor of the History of Philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Pavia.

She was previously Marie Curie Fellow at Ca’ Foscari Università di Venezia, and held research fellowships at I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, the University of Warwick, The Warburg Institute, and LMU Munich, among others. She specialises in the role of mysticism for philosophical speculation (on which she published ‘The First German Philosopher’: The Mysticism of Jacob Böhme as Interpreted by Hegel, Springer 2016), and in the ethical implications of the human/animal distinction (see especially her book Renaissance Vegetarianism: The Philosophical Afterlives of Porphyry’s ‘On Abstinence’, Legenda 2020). She is interested in the curation of exhibitions as spaces for philosophical reflection, and worked with Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden on a series of displays on Jacob Böhme (2017-2020). Together with Mario Meliadò, she co-edits Brill’s Series in Philosophical Historiographies.