Nuccio Ordine


Nuccio Ordine is an Italian author and philosopher, professor of literature at the University of Calabria. He is one of the world's top experts on Renaissance and the philosopher Giordano Bruno.

Activities

Ordine is a fellow of the Harvard University Center for Studies of the Italian Renaissance and of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. He has taught at the American universities of Yale and New York, and at the European universities EHESS, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Paris-IV Sorbonne, Paris-III Sorbonne-Nouvelle, CESR of Tours, Institut Universitaire de France, Paris-VIII Vincennes, Institut des Études Avancées de Paris, Warburg Institute and Eichstätt University.
His books have been translated in many languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Russian.
In France he is a general editor of two series at Les Belles Lettres Publishing House: the complete works of Giordano Bruno and the “Bibliotheque Italienne”.
In Italy, he is the general editor of the “Sileni” series at Liguori Publishing House, the “Classics of European thinking” series at Nino Aragno Publishing House, and the “Classics of European literature” series at Bompiani Publishing House. Nuccio Ordine also writes for the "Corriere della Sera" newspaper.

Honours

Knight of the French Legion of Honour, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, December 2012
Commander of the Ordine al Merito della Republica Italiana, 2010
Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques, 2009
Honorary Member of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2010
Laurea Honoris Causa of the Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul, 2011
Doctor Honoris Causa of the Catholic University of Louvain, 2020

Books

Non Fiction