Publications
2025
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. (2025). Vincenzo Galilei on Music’s Ethical Power and Marin Mersenne’s Reception of His Ideas. In Vincenzo Galilei : The Renaissance Dialogue between Music and Science (pp. 227-250)
Prins, J. (2025). Bettina Varwig, Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology. Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, 31(1). [Portal]
Professional publications
Prins, J. (2025). Gendered Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony and the Power of Music in Niẓāmī’s Haft Paykar. Web publication/site, Journal of the History of Ideas Blog. https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/04/16/gendered-conceptions-of-cosmic-harmony-and-the-power-of-music-in-ni%e1%ba%93amis-haft-paykar/
2024
Scholarly publications
Prins, J., & Thomas, E. (Eds.) (2024). The Legacy of Plato's Timaeus: Cosmology, Music, Medicine, and Architecture from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; Vol. 353). Brill. [DOI]
2023
Scholarly publications
Professional publications
Prins, J. (2023). Marin Mersenne on the Uplifting Effect of Sad Music. Web publication/site, Journal of the History of Ideas Blog. https://www.jhiblog.org/2023/09/06/marin-mersenne-on-the-consolation-of-sad-music/
Prins, J. (2023). Muziek en Liefde in de Renaissance. In Muziek zit tussen je oren: Muziekfilosofische beschouwingen (pp. 144-158). Damon. [Portal]
2022
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. (2022). Cardano and Scaliger in Debate on the Revival of Ancient Music. Journal of Musicology, 39(1), 109-132. [DOI]
Prins, J. (2022). The influence of Francesco Patrizi’s collection of Greek manuscripts on his music theory. In Venice, Schiavoni and the Dissemination of Early Modern Music: A Companion to Ivan Lukačić (pp. 203-217). Brepols. [DOI]
2021
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. (2021). Patrizi’s and Mersenne’s Criticism of Ficino’s Interpretation of the Harmony of the Spheres. In Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains: Transformations of Music in Early Modern Culture between Sensibility and Abstraction (pp. 59-80). De Gruyter. [Portal]
Prins, J. (2021). Ovanes Akopyan (ed.), Francesco Patrizi da Cherso: Ancient Wisdom, Natural Philosophy and Poetics in the Late Renaissance. Bruniana e Campanelliana, 2020/2, 622-625.
Popularising publications
Prins, J. (2021). Venetië blijft voor mij een soort sprookjesstad. de Volkskrant.
2020
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. (2020). Music as a Remedy for Lovesickness in Francesco Cavalli’s Artemisia. The Opera Journal, 53(2), 29-56.
Prins, J. (2020). Sympathy in Early Modern Thought. In Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences Springer Nature. [DOI]
Prins, J. (2020). Competing Views on Music’s Power to Stir the Emotions: Girolamo Cardano and Julius Caesar Scaliger. In Spheres of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe (pp. 177-198). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Prins, J. (2020). Tempering the mind: humanist conceptions of music and mental health. Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 132, S29-S32. [DOI]
Prins, J. (2020). Girolamo Cardamo y Julio César Scaliger: el debate sobre los secretos musicales de la naturaleza. In ¿Metodología o metodologías para la historia de la filosofía? (pp. 97-121) [Portal]
Prins, J. (2020). Heavenly Journeys: Marsilio Ficino and Girolamo Cardano on Scipio’s Dream. Aither, 7/2020, 18. [DOI]
2019
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. (2019). Marsilio Ficino and Girolamo Cardano under Orpheus's Spell. In K. Butler, & S. Bassler (Eds.), Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (pp. 107-123). Boydell & Brewer. [DOI]
Prins, J. (2019). Andrew Hicks, Composing the World. Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos. Isis, 110(1), 159-160. [DOI]
Prins, J. (2019). Karsten Mackensen, Musik Und Die Ordnung der Dinge. British Journal for the History of Science, 52(2), 361-363.
Prins, J. (2019). Aviva Rothman, The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community. Early Science and Medicine, 24, 299-303. [DOI]
Prins, J. (2019). Music, Science, and Philosophy. In The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music (pp. 439-471). Cambridge University Press. [DOI]
2018
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. (2018). Girolamo Cardano on music as a remedy “for the troubles that result from the misery of human misfortune”. In The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-being (pp. 47-62). Taylor & Francis. [DOI]
Prins, J. (2018). Джироламо Кардано о музыке для излечения души’ (‘Girolamo Cardano on the Musical Care for the Soul’). In Conceptualization of Music in the Abrahamic Traditions – 2018: collective monograph (pp. 180-199). SIAS.
Gouk, P., Kennaway, J., Prins, J., & Thormählen, W. (2018). The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-being. Taylor & Francis. [DOI]
2017
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. (2017). Girolamo Cardano and Julius Caesar Scaliger in debate about nature’s musical secrets. Journal of the History of Ideas, 78(2), 169-189. [DOI]
Prins, J. (2017). Francesco Patrizi and the ‘Weakest Echo of the Harmony of the Spheres’. In Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres (pp. 139-159). Routledge. [Portal]
Prins, J. (2017). Gioseffo Zarlino, Human Nature and the Power of Music. In J. Pradella (Ed.), Musico perfetto, Gioseffo Zarlino : His time, his work, his influence (pp. 311-335). Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation. [Portal]
Prins, J. (2017). Harmony. In M. Sgarbi (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy Springer. [DOI]
Prins, J., & Vanhaelen, M. (2017). Sing aloud harmonious spheres: Renaissance conceptions of cosmic harmony. Taylor & Francis. [DOI]
Professional publications
Prins, J. (2017). Gelijkgestemde Zielen. Notiziario, 27(3), 13-14.
2016
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. (2016). Marsilio Ficino, Francesco Cavalli e a música como remédio para o desgosto amoroso. Revista Música, 16(1), 115-137. [DOI]
Prins, J. (2016). Marsilio Ficino, Francesco Cavalli en muziek als remedie voor liefdesverdriet. Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, 31(1), 18-34. [DOI]
2014
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. (2014). Echoes of an Invisible World: Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on Cosmic Order and Music Theory . (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; Vol. 234). Brill.
Prins, J. (2014). La quête musicale de Charles Burney: Des trésors cachés qui « badinent avec grâce». In De la conversation au conservatoire: Scénographies des genres mineurs (1680-1780) (pp. 321-346). Hermann.
Prins, J. (2014). Francesco Patrizi, Unrequited Love, and the Power of Music. In Francesco Patrizi: Philosopher of the Renaissance: Proceedings from The Centre for Renaissance Texts Conference (pp. 232-259). Centre for Renaissance Texts.
Prins, J. (2014). Imaginação Musical, Melancolia e Gota na Filosofia de Girolamo Cardano. Revista Música, 14(1), 41-59. [DOI]
Professional publications
Prins, J. (2014). Muzikale verbeeldingskracht, melancholie en jicht in Girolamo Cardano’s filosofie. In Muziek ervaren: Essays over muziek en filosofie (pp. 189-205). Damon. [Portal]
2013
Popularising publications
Prins, J. (2013). In memoriam Dorothea Winter (1949 - 2012). Web publication/site, Koninklijk Conservatorium. http://www.koncon.nl/en/news-and-concerts/news/news-archive/2013-2014/5095/in-memoriam-dorothea-winter-1949-2012.html [Portal]
2012
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. (2012). Cornelia Sorabji: de tragische ondergang van een groot talent. Tijdschrift voor Biografie, 1(2), 91-94. [Portal]
Prins, J. (2012). The music of the pulse in Marsilio Ficino's Timaeus commentary. In M. Horstmanshoff, H. King, & C. Zittel (Eds.), Blood, Sweat and Tears - The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe (pp. 393-413). (Intersections; Vol. 25). Brill Academic Publishers. [DOI]
Prins, J. (2012). Humours, Health and Harmony in Ficino’s Compendium in Timaeum. In Blood, symbol, liquid (pp. 61-81). (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change; Vol. 44). Peeters Publishing.
Prins, J. (2012). Marsilio Ficino’s visie op Plato's sferenharmonie. Hermeneus, 84(1), 4-9.
2011
Popularising publications
Prins, J. (2011). Iphigénie. In Programmaboek Iphigénie en Tauride (pp. 42-45). De Nederlandse Opera. [Portal]
2010
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. (2010). ‘Een zoektocht naar de relatie tussen de Codex Faenza 117 en de laatmiddeleeuwse instrumentale uitvoeringspraktijk van Noord-Italië'. Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, 2010(2), 192-194. [Portal]
Prins, J. (2010). Hoge bomen of vreemde vogels? Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 13(3), 48-52. [Portal]
Prins, J. (2010). EARLY MODERN ANGELIC SONG in FRANCESCO PATRIZI'S L'AMOROSA FILOSOFIA (1577). In A. C. Montoya, S. van Romburgh, & W. van Anrooij (Eds.), Early Modern Medievalisms: The Interplay between Scholarly Reflection and Artistic Production (pp. 111-135). (Intersections; Vol. 15). Brill Academic Publishers. [DOI]
2009
Scholarly publications
Sieber, A., & Prins, J. (2009). A Philosophic Music Therapy for Melancholy in Marsilio Ficino’s Timaeus Commentary. In Konzeptionen in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (pp. 119-143)
Prins, J. (2009). Marsilio Ficino, het oog der verbeelding en de verborgen betekenis van Renaissanceschilderijen. Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, 149-151. [Portal]
Prins, J. W. (2009). Echoes of an Invisible World: Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on Cosmic Order and Music Theory. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Utrecht University]. Utrecht University. [Portal]
2008
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. (2008). Mirrors as Transmitters of Divine Harmony in Marsilio Ficino’s Compendium in Timaeum. In M. Anderson (Ed.), The Book of the Mirror: An Interdisciplinary Collection Exploring the Cultural Story of the Mirror (pp. 80-91). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2007
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. (2007). Marsilio Ficino: hemelreiziger en geneesheer. In Harmonisch labyrint: de muziek van de kosmos in de westerse wereld (pp. 77-94). Uitgeverij Verloren. [Portal]
Professional publications
Prins, J. W., & Teeuwen, M. J. (2007). Harmonisch labyrint: De muziek van de kosmos in de westerse wereld. Uitgeverij Verloren.
2006
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. W. (2006). Muziektherapie in Marsilio Ficino's "Compendium in Timaeum". Gewina, 29, 41-52. [Portal]
Prins, J. (2006). Francesco Patrizi’s L’amorosa filosofia: een dialoog over harmonieuze schoonheid en ware liefde. Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, 22(2), 175-189.
Popularising publications
Prins, J. W. (2006). In de keuken. U-blad, 12.
2005
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. W. (2005). The reception and transmission of ideas about astronomy and cosmic harmony of two Islamic scholars in Marsilio Ficino's Compendium
in Timaeum. SASMARS Journal, ?.
Popularising publications
Prins, J. W. (2005). De rol van de Orfische hymnen in de traditie van de harmonie der sferen in de Italiaanse Renaissance. De rode leeuw, 175, ?.
2004
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. (2004). The Reception and Transmission of Ideas about Astronomy and Cosmic Harmony of Two Islamic Scholars in Marsilio Ficino’s Compendium in Timaeum. Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 14, 51-74. [Portal]
Prins, J. W. (2004). "L'Amorosa filosofia": dialoog over de ware aard van de liefde. Kunst en Wetenschap, 13e jaarga(nr.4), 13.
Prins, J. W. (2004). Francesco Patrizi's "L'amorosa filosofia". De rode leeuw, 165.
2003
Scholarly publications
Prins, J. W. (2003). Olga Averino's De kunst van het zingen. De rode leeuw.
Prins, J. W. (2003). Ficino op reis door hemelse sferen: een innerlijke zoektocht naar harmonie. Kunst en Wetenschap.
Prins, J. W., Averino, O., & Taylor, C. (2003). De kunst van het zingen. Vereniging Averino.
Prins, J. W. (2003). Denis Diderot: De neef van Rameau. De rode leeuw.