Harald Hendrix
Department of Languages, Literature and Communication - Ital
Utrecht University
Italy
Biography
Harald Hendrix (1958) is director of the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome, as well as full professor of Italian Studies at Utrecht University. With a combined background in Cultural History, Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, he has published widely on the European reception of Italian Renaissance and Baroque culture (Traiano Boccalini fra erudizione e polemica, Olschki, 1995), on the early-modern aesthetics of the non-beautiful as well as on literary culture and memory. He is currently preparing a book on the cultural history of writers' houses in Italy, from Petrarch to the present day.
Research Interest
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Publications
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Hendrix, H.A. (2013). Imagining the Other. On Xenophobia and Xenophilia in Early Modern Europe. Leidschrift, 28 (1), (pp. 7-20) (14 p.).
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Hendrix, H.A., Arbel, B. & Chayes, E. (2013). Cyprus and the Renaissance (1450-1650). (470 p.). Turnhout: Brepols.
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H.A. Hendrix (28.03.2014) Domestic antiquarianism and literary self-fashioning
