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32Ficino's hymns and the renaissance platonic academyIn Stephen Clucas, Peter J. Forshaw & Valery Rees (eds.), Laus Platonici philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and his influence, Brill. pp. 133. 2011.
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10Editorial. Aristotle across BoundariesAristotelica 4 (4): 1-2. 2023.In June 2023, a group of ‘Aristotelians without Borders’ met in the splendid Villa San Remigio in Verbania, one of the beautiful premises of the University of Eastern Piedmont. Following in the footsteps of Aristotelians over the centuries, the participants were committed to the belief that engaging in dialogue has a value in itself. Our Aristotelian predecessors have collectively bequeathed to us a common language, a shared form of rationality and a grammar of thought which allow us to engage i…Read more
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5Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2009.Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus Gale, Ralph Cudworth and Nicholas Malebranche--of the philosocial canon, and the ways in which reputations are created and confirmed. In their own day, these ten figures were all considered to be thinkers of substantial repute, and it took some time for the Insiders to come to be regarded as major an…Read more
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4British Philosophy Before LockeIn Steven Nadler (ed.), A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.This chapter contains section titled: Philosophy Ancient and Modern New Science and Old Philosophy Reason and Religion Between Dogmatism and Skepticism.
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79The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1988.The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, published in 1988, offers a balanced and comprehensive account of philosophical thought from the middle of the fourteenth century to the emergence of modern philosophy. This was the first volume in English to synthesise for a wider audience the substantial and sophisticated research now available. The volume is organised by branch of philosophy rather than by individual philosopher or school, and the intention has been to present the internal deve…Read more
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6Et Amicorum: essays on Renaissance humanism and philosophy in honour of Jill Kraye (edited book)Brill. 2017.Inspired by Jill Kraye's many contributions to European intellectual history, this volume presents a diverse collection of studies in Renaissance philosophy and humanism by leading experts in the field.
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6From Greek into Italian: Giulio Ballino's Translation of the Pseudo-Aristotelian On the Virtues and VicesRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 2 361-376. 2019.
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41Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine, "From Humanism to the Humanities" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 27 (1): 150. 1989.
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23The Political Philosophy of Montaigne (review)Review of Metaphysics 46 (3): 640-642. 1993.The author regards Montaigne as one of the architects of modern political thought, a precursor of Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, and the American Founding Fathers. The Essais, for Schaefer, are notable primarily on account of their formulation of a primitive version of bourgeois liberalism: the doctrine that society functions best when individuals pursue their own self-interest with a minimum of governmental interference. Montaigne, in other words, was an early Modern apostle of the gos…Read more
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12Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 1300-1600 by Paul F. Grendler (review)Isis 82 127-128. 1991.
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32Hermetica: The Greek "Corpus Hermeticum" and the Latin "Asclepius"Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (4): 608-610. 1996.
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11Classical Traditions in Renaissance PhilosophyRoutledge. 2002.The impact of classical thought on Renaissance philosophy is the subject of this volume. In the first part Dr Kraye deals with the interpretations of ancient philosophy put forward by various thinkers of the Italian Renaissance, including the humanist Angelo Poliziano and the Platonist Marsilio Ficino; in the second, she examines the central role of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics within Renaissance moral philosophy and considers the influence of other classical treatises on ethics, especially th…Read more
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29Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern AgeCommon Knowledge 19 (3): 574-574. 2013.
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Pico on the relationship of rhetoric and philosophyIn M. V. Dougherty (ed.), Pico Della Mirandola: New Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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24Francesco filelfo's lost letter de ideisJournal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 42 (1): 236-249. 1979.
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7The revival of Hellenistic philosophiesIn James Hankins (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 97--112. 2007.
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4Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 1300-1600Paul F. GrendlerIsis 82 (1): 127-128. 1991.
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Marsilio Ficino: The Letters, vol. 6; Edward P. Mahoney: Two Aristotelians of the Italian Renaissance: Nicoletto Vernia and Agostino Nifo (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2): 331-335. 2003.
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43Cambridge translations of Renaissance philosophical texts (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1997.The Renaissance, known primarily for the art and literature that it produced, was also a period in which philosophical thought flourished. This two-volume anthology contains 40 new translations of important works on moral and political philosophy written during the Renaissance and hitherto unavailable in English. The anthology is designed to be used in conjunction with The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, in which all of these texts are discussed. The works, originally written in Lat…Read more
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9Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age by Ann Blair (review)Common Knowledge 19 (3): 574-574. 2013.
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Pietro pomponazzi (1462-1525) : Secular aristotelianism in the renaissanceIn Paul Richard Blum (ed.), Philosophers of the Renaissance, Catholic University of America Press. 2010.
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29Aristotle's God and the authenticity ofJournal of the History of Philosophy 28 (3): 339-358. 1990.
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46Unpacking the warburg libraryCommon Knowledge 18 (1): 117-127. 2012.Against the backdrop of Walter Benjamin's famous essay, “Unpacking My Library”, this article, by the Librarian of the Warburg Institute, tells the story of the many times that the Warburg Library has been packed and unpacked. First it was the private collection of Aby Warburg, later a public institution, originally in Hamburg and then in London from 1933 to the present. This essay also explores the various ways in which books have been — and continue to be — acquired by the Warburg Library, incl…Read more