Valery Rees

Valery Rees teaches in the School of Philosophy and Economic Science in London and has held guest lectureships in Cambridge, Warwick, Budapest, and Jerusalem. Her principal work over many years has been on The Letters of Marsilio Ficino (London: Shepheard Walwyn, 11 vols. in print, 1975-2020), Vol. 12 in preparation. Rees has co-edited and contributed to three essay collections: Platonism: Ficino to Foucault (Leiden: Brill, 2020), Laus Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and His Influence ...See more

Valery Rees teaches in the School of Philosophy and Economic Science in London and has held guest lectureships in Cambridge, Warwick, Budapest, and Jerusalem. Her principal work over many years has been on The Letters of Marsilio Ficino (London: Shepheard Walwyn, 11 vols. in print, 1975-2020), Vol. 12 in preparation. Rees has co-edited and contributed to three essay collections: Platonism: Ficino to Foucault (Leiden: Brill, 2020), Laus Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and His Influence (Leiden: Brill, 2011), and Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His Philosophy, His Legacy (Leiden: Brill, 2002). She has also contributed several articles to Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World (2014). Her monograph From Gabriel to Lucifer: A Cultural History of Angels is available in English and German (London: I B Tauris, 2012, repr. 2015; Lambert Schneider, 2017). She has published numerous articles on philosophy, literature, and religion in the Renaissance. Her most recent articles include: 'Philosophy on the Defensive: Marsilio Ficino's Response in a Time of Religious Turmoil', in Platonism: From Ficino to Foucault, eds. Valery Rees, Anna Corrias, Francesca Crasta, Laura Follesa, and Guido Giglioni (Leiden: Brill, 2021), pp. 16-31; 'Seeing and the Unseen: Marsilio Ficino and the Visual Arts', Proceedings of Conference Held at the University of Vienna, 15-17 September 2011, in Iconology: Neoplatonism and the Arts in the Renaissance, ed. by Berthold Hub and Sergius Kodera (Routledge, 2021), pp. 62-76; 'Translation, Absorption, Creation of Something New: Marsilio Ficino Reads Proclus', in Humanistica, Journal of Early Renaissance Studies, xiii (n. s. vii) 2, 2018; and Heredes et Scrutatores (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2020), pp. 67-73. See less