Vittorio Morfino is a Senior Researcher in the History of Philosophy at the Università di Milano-Bicocca. He has been a visiting professor at the Universidade de São Paulo and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of Il tempo e l’occasione. L’incontro Spinoza Machiavelli (Milano 2002, Paris 2012), Incursioni spinoziste (Milano 2002), Il tempo della moltitudine (Roma 2005, Paris 2010) and Spinoza e il non contemporaneo (Verona 2009). He is an editor of Quaderni materialisti and of Décalages.