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35The 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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32Michael J. B. Allen, "Icastes: Marsilio Ficino's Interpretation of Plato's "Sophist"" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (2): 284. 1993.
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27A 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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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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19Thomism 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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19The Commentary on the Sentences of Petrus Lombardus (review)Augustinian Studies 42 (1): 99-101. 2011.
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18Brian 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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17Paul Oskar Kristeller and PhilosophyBulletin de Philosophie Medievale 57 383-413. 2015.Trained by some of the most notable philosophers and scholars in Germany before World War II, Paul Oskar Kristeller was one of the great scholars of the twentieth century. He spent his whole career in America in the Philosophy Department of Columbia University, where he became the internationally recognized authority on Renaissance thought. Yet he failed to establish Renaissance philosophy as an ordinary subject of study in American philosophy departments. His publications in philosophy were wid…Read more
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16Was Lorenzo Valla an Ordinary Language Philosopher?Journal of the History of Ideas 50 (2): 309. 1989.
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16Aristotle as Scribe of Nature: The Title-Page of MS Vat. Lat. 2094Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 69 (1). 2006.
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14The twelve essays in this new collection by John Monfasani examine how, in particular cases, Greek émigrés, Italian humanists, and Latin scholastics reacted with each other in surprising and important ways. After an opening assessment of Greek migration to Renaissance Italy, the essays range from the Averroism of John Argyropoulos and the capacity of Nicholas of Cusa to translate Greek, to Marsilio Ficino's position in the Plato-Aristotle controversy and the absence of Ockhamists in Renaissance …Read more
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11BessarioneaByzantinische 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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10Supplementum festivum: studies in honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller (edited book)Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. 1987.
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9Épicure 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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9Cardinal 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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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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7Betr. den Drucker Michael Martinus Stella und seine Beziehung zu Basel, speziell zu Thomas und Felix Platter, Johannes Oporin, Andreas Vesalius.
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4Betr. den Drucker Michael Martinus Stella und seine Beziehung zu Basel, speziell zu Thomas und Felix Platter, Johannes Oporin, Andreas Vesalius.
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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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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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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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1Humanism and the RenaissanceIn Anthony B. Pinn (ed.), The Oxford handbook of humanism, Oxford University Press. 2021.
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