Early Modern Philosophers and the Renaissance Legacy (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 220)

Gianni Paganini is Full Professor of History of Philosophy at the Università del Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro". He has won the prestigious Prize of the Accademia dei Lincei for Philosophy (awarded every ten years for the whole of the scholarly production over the past decade). For his most recent monograph, entitled Skepsis. ‘Le débat des modernes sur le scepticisme’, he was awarded the PRIX La Bruyère 2009 pour la littérature et la philosophie, médaille d’argent, de l’Académie Française. His monographs and studies in the history of modern philosophy, with particular focus on the sceptical tradition and libertine culture, have been accompanied by the publication of several editions of texts (notably of the anonymous Theophrastus redivivus, of Hobbes' ‘De motu, loco et tempore’, and of Hume's ‘Dialogues’, with Italian translation). He is a member of international advisory boards (such as “International Archives of the History of Ideas”, "Bruniana&Campanelliana" and "La Lettre Clandestine").