Thursday Seminar: Is the Wind a Thing? Fluid Ontologies from Heraclitus to Kristeller

Speaker: Shane Butler (I Tatti / Johns Hopkins University)

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Shane Butler is the Hall Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught since 2015. He is currently the Francesco De Dombrowski Visiting Professor at I Tatti, where he was a Fellow in 2003–4. He is also the new General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. Professor Butler writes on literature, philosophy, and art across a wide variety of periods. His most recent book is The Passions of John Addington Symonds (Oxford, 2022). He lives in New York City.

Image: Leonardo da Vinci, A Deluge, ca. 1517–18, Royal Collection, UK

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