Giovanni Giorgini

Giovanni Giorgini is Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Bologna. He is also Life Member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, where he was previously a Visiting Fellow. Giorgini has held visiting positions in many universities, in Italy and abroad, including Chicago, Columbia, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Bolzano and IMT-Lucca.

Giorgini is member of the scientific board of Il Pensiero Politico and a member of the board of directors of Filosofia Politica and “Etica & Politica”. Giorgini is the author of La città e il tiranno (Giuffre', 1993), Liberalismi eretici (Edizioni Goliardiche, 1999), I doni di Pandora (Bonomo, 2002), Introduzione al pensiero politico classico (Il Mulino, 2024) as well as of a translation of Plato’s Politicus (Rizzoli, 2005), numerous essays, translations and entries in encyclopedias. He has edited, with Elena Irrera, The Roots of Respect (De Gruyter, 2017) and God, Religion and Society in Ancient Thought (Nomos Verlag, 2023; with Dino Piovan he has edited The Brill Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy (Brill, 2020).