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Dr. Daniel Canaris is an ARC DECRA Research Fellow and Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Sydney. He specializes in Sino-Western intellectual exchange, the Italian Enlightenment, and Renaissance philosophy. His research bridges early modern European and Chinese intellectual traditions, focusing on figures like Giambattista Vico and Jesuit missionaries such as Michele Ruggieri. Canaris holds a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Sydney (2017) and has held fellowships at prestigious institutions including the Warburg Institute and Harvard’s Villa I Tatti (declined due to travel restrictions).
His work includes a monograph on Vico and China (2020), co-edited critical editions of Longobardo’s Resposta breve (2021) and Ruggieri’s Tianzhu shilu (2023), and ongoing projects on the reception of Aristotelian thought in Ming-Qing China. Current research explores Francesco Sambiasi and Xu Guangqi’s Lingyan lishao and François Noël’s Philosophia Sinica.
Canaris’s recent articles address topics such as cultural translatability in Jesuit missions, the interplay between Neapolitan medical practices and Chinese medicine, and the theological mediation of Christian and Confucian concepts of human excellence. He teaches ITLN3662: Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy and supervises students like Rose in projects examining cross-cultural religious adaptation.
Awarded the ARC DECRA Fellowship (2022), Canaris has also been granted fellowships by the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Sun Yat-sen University, and the Ricci Institute. He contributes actively to the Vere Gordon Childe Centre at the University of Sydney and collaborates on projects like Transforming the East, analyzing Jesuit translations of Confucian texts.