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Cusanus, the Greeks, and IslamIn Gerald Christianson & Thomas M. Izbicki (eds.), Nicholas of Cusa and times of transition: essays in honor of Gerald Christianson, Brill. 2019.
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George of Trebizond (1396-1474/75) : Comparison of Plato and Aristotle : God as the absolutely firstIn Paul Richard Blum & James G. Snyder (eds.), Philosophy in the Renaissance: an anthology, The Catholic University of America Press. 2022.
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8Cardinal Bessarion’s Greek and Latin Sources in the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the 15th Century and Nicholas of Cusa’s Relation to the ControversyIn Andreas Speer & Philipp Steinkrüger (eds.), Knotenpunkt Byzanz: Wissensformen und kulturelle Wechselbeziehungen, De Gruyter. pp. 469-480. 2012.
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4George Gennadius II Scholarios and the West: Comments on Demetracopoulos, “George Scholarios’ Abridgment of the Parva naturalia”In Börje Bydén & Filip Radovic (eds.), The Parva Naturalia in Greek, Arabic and Latin Aristotelianism: Supplementing the Science of the Soul, Springer Verlag. pp. 317-323. 2018.The most striking aspect of Dr. Demetracopoulos’ contribution is the evidence for how unoriginal was Scholarios’ Aristotelian scholarship. The chief source of Scholarios’ commentary on the Parva naturalia was Theodore Metochites, whose ultimate source in turn was Michael of Ephesus. So once the Aldine Press had published the text of Michael of Ephesus’ commentary in 1527 and once Conrad Gesner’s Latin translation of Michael of Ephesus’s commentary was printed in 1541 and Gentian Hervet’s transla…Read more
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Humanism and the RenaissanceIn Anthony B. Pinn (ed.), The Oxford handbook of humanism, Oxford University Press. 2021.
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6Épicure aux Enfers: Hérésie, athéisme et hédonisme au Moyen Âge by Aurélien RobertJournal of the History of Philosophy 60 (4): 693-695. 2022.Always an essential component in histories of philosophy, Epicureanism has taken on a special importance of late because some scholars have seen its doctrines as triggering modernity. Certainly, Greenblatt can be accused of historical malpractice. Robert, in the book under review, calls Gleenblatt's work a "bon roman" ; see also my July 2012 review in Reviews in History, reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1283, and...
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10BessarioneaByzantinische Zeitschrift 113 (1): 81-92. 2020.1. Date of birth once again. 2. The name of Bessarion’s mother was Theodora. 3. A retraction: B. Venetus was not Bessarion Venetus.
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18Thomism in the Renaissance: Fifty Years after Kristeller. Divus Thomas 120 ed. by Alison FrazierJournal of the History of Philosophy 56 (4): 753-754. 2018.In his long scholarly career, Paul Oskar Kristeller produced an extraordinary number of seminal books and articles, one of which was the 1967 monograph Le Thomisme et la pensée italienne de la Renaissance, which presented the evidence for the intellectual vitality of Thomism in the Italian Renaissance. In 2017, on the fiftieth anniversary of Kristeller's book, the collection of articles under review was presented originally as papers at the Chicago meeting of the Renaissance Society of America a…Read more
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The Theology of Lorenzo VallaIn Jill Kraye & M. W. F. Stone (eds.), Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 1--23. 2000.
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3MR Dilts, ML Sosower, and A. Manfredi, eds., Librorum Graecorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae index a Nicolao de Maioranis compositus et Fausto Saboeo collatus anno 1533.(Studi e Testi, 384; Studi e Documenti sulla Formazione della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 3.) Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1998. Paper. Pp. xxxvi, 122; 1 table (review)Speculum 76 (1): 152-153. 2001.
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Collectanea Trapezuntiana. Texts, Documents, and Bibliographies of George of TrebizondTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 50 (1): 150-151. 1988.
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3Betr. den Drucker Michael Martinus Stella und seine Beziehung zu Basel, speziell zu Thomas und Felix Platter, Johannes Oporin, Andreas Vesalius.
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In Praise Of Ognibene And Blame Of Guarino: Andronicus Contoblacas's Invective Against Niccolò Botano And The Citizens Of BresciaBibliothèque d'Humanisme Et Renaissance 52 (2): 309-321. 1990.
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26A Note On George Amiroutzes And His Moral Argument Against The Transmigration Of SoulsBulletin de Philosophie Medievale 54 125-135. 2012.In a recently discovered set of philosophical fragments, the late Byzantine Aristotelian George Amiroutze argues against the transmigration of souls because of necessity metempsychosis would be grounded in moral evil. If souls were of the same nature , then metempsychosis entails like exploiting and killing like. If one attempts to escape the moral dilemma through vegetarianism, then one falls into another moral dilemma, namely, the view that nature and the author of nature are evil since the or…Read more
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15Was Lorenzo Valla an Ordinary Language Philosopher?Journal of the History of Ideas 50 (2): 309. 1989.
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7Fernando of Cordova: a biographical and intellectual profileAmerican Philosophical Society. 1992.Part charlatan, part wunderkind, and part learned scholastic, Fernando of Cordova burst upon the European scene in 1444-1446 when he traveled to different parts of Europe. He astounded audiences by his command of the subject matter in all univ. subjects, his mastery of oriental languages, his skill in painting, music, and instrument making, and his expertise in knightly warfare. After disappearing in 1446, he reappeared in 1466 as a Roman curialist active in several controversies. He died in 148…Read more
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10Supplementum festivum: studies in honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller (edited book)Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. 1987.
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29The cambridge companion to renaissance philosophy (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (1). 2008.This volume cannot but call to mind The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy published twenty years ago under the editorship of Charles B. Schmitt and Quentin Skinner. The Cambridge Companion fares well in the comparison. The Cambridge History contained some weak or irrelevant articles, as well as articles that flatly contradicted each other, but its largest flaw was its artificial division of Renaissance philosophy, in almost cookie-cutter fashion, into synthetic themes that tended to ob…Read more
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20Pletho's date of death and the burning of his LawsByzantinische Zeitschrift 98 (2): 459-463. 2005.I Pletho's Date of Death In 1976 I denied the correctness of the commonly held date of 1452 for Pletho's death. I argued instead for 1454. The difference of two years meant not only that Pletho lived to see the fall of Constantinople in 1453, but also that a whole series of works in the Plato-Aristotle controversy had to be redated. The basis for the 1452 date is a notice found amid other notes by an unknown hand on the last folio of the fifteenth-century manuscript M. 15 in the University Libra…Read more
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4Kristeller reconsidered: essays on his life and scholarship (edited book)Italica Press. 2006.[Fifteen scholars examine the life and thought of Paul Oskar Kristeller (1905-1999) to uncover the relationship between the man and his interpretation of Renaissance humanism and its relation to intellectual and cultural life]"--Provided by publisher.
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17Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asdepius in a New English Translation with Notes and Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. lxxxiii + 320. ISBN 0-521-36144-3. £45.00, $69.95 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 26 (4): 487-489. 1993.
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