Harald Hendrix (1958) is professor emeritus of at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, where he was chair of Italian Studies from 2001 through 2025. Previously he has worked as an associate professor Renaissance Studies in the Comparative Literature Department (1994-2001). He also served as director of (2002-2006), as head of the department of Modern Languages (2007-2012) and as director of the (2014-2019). 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 (, 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.
Recent publications include (Routledge, 2008; paperback 2012), (with Antonello Corsaro and Paolo Procaccioli; Vecchiarelli, 2007), (with Paolo Procaccioli; Vecchiarelli, 2008), (with Philiep Bossier and Paolo Procaccioli; Vecchiarelli, 2011), (with Lieke Stelling and Todd Richardson; Brill, 2011), (with Geert Buelens en Monica Jansen; Lexington Books, 2012), (with Benjamin Arbel en Evelien Chayes; Brepols, 2013), The Idea of Beauty in Italian Literature and Language (met Claudio Di Felice en Philiep Bossier; Brill 2019), and (with Giuseppe Crimi and Anna Esposito: Roma nel Rinascimento, 2024).
Il papato breve di Adriano VI. Storia, religione, arte, cultura (Roma nel Rinascimento, 2024)
Idea of Beauty in Italian Literature and Language (Brill, 2019)
The History of Futurism (Lexington Books, 2012)
Cyprus and the Renaissance, 1450-1650 (Brepols, 2013)
Writers Houses and the Making of Memory (Routledge, 2008; reprint 2012)
The Turn of the Soul (Brill, 2012)
Dynamic Translations in the European Renaissance (Vecchiarelli, 2011)
Officine del nuovo (Vecchiarelli, 2008)
Autorita, modelli e antimodelli (Vecchiarelli, 2007)
Beschaafde burgers (Amsterdam UP, 2001)
De grenzen van het lichaam (Amsterdam UP, 1999)
Vreemd volk (Amsterdam UP, 1998)
Oud en lelijk (Amsterdam UP, 1996)
Kunstenaars en opdrachtgevers (Amsterdam UP, 1996)
The Search for a New Alphabet (Benjamins, 1996)
Traiano Boccalini fra erudizione e polemica (Olschki, 1995)
De vrouw in de Renaissance (Amsterdam UP, 1994)
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Chair
Italian Studies
Inaugural lecture date
22.11.2002