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45Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe, edited by Stephen Pender and Nancy S. Struever, 2012Early Science and Medicine 21 (1): 97-99. 2016.
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13Medicina e filosofia in Marsilio Ficino. Il Consilio contro la pestilentiaEdizioni di storia e letteratura. 2007.This is a study on the relationship between medicine and philosophy in the 14th and 15th century with a focus on the humanist and philosopher Marsilio Ficino and his advice against the plague. The volume also offers a new edition of his "Consilio contra la pestilentia".
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7The first study of the rebirth of ancient sophists in Speroni (1500-1588) and the early-modern Italian literature, from Leonardo Bruni to Jacopo Mazzoni.
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1A Humanist confronts the Plague: Ficino’s 'Consilio contro la Pestilentia'Modern Language Notes 125 72-83. 2010.This paper wants to make a contribution to the study of the sources of Marsilio Ficino's Consilio contro la Pestilentia, composed in the Florentine tongue between 1478 and 1479 and published in 1481.
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1Il platonismo politico nell’età della Controriforma: Ciro Spontoni dalla 'Corona del principe' ai 'Dodici libri del governo di Stato'Storia Del Pensiero Politico 4 (2): 227-250. 2015.This essay explores the legacy of the Platonic philosophy at the end of the sixteenth century, when the Catholic Church switched from a tolerant approach to a rejection of the heterodox elements of the prisca theologia, and provides an analysis of Ciro Spontoni’s Corona del principe (1590) and Dodici libri del governo di Stato (1599). This two works clearly witnessed this change in the contemporary cultural climate, as Katinis shows highlighting the contrast between the massive presence of Plat…Read more
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Praise and Practice of Medicine in Marsilio FicinoIn M. Gadebusch Bondio (ed.), Medical Ethics and Humanism. Premodern Negotiations between Medicine and Philosophy, Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 109-115. 2014.This contribution focuses on Ficino's letters and woks in which he defends the art of medicine and its value for the human beings
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Praising Discord: Speroni’s 'Dialogo della Discordia' and Erasmus’ InfluenceErasmus Studies 35 (2): 137-153. 2015.This paper aims to explore the variety of sophistic argumentations that the Paduan philosopher and writer Sperone Speroni (1500-1588) applies in the so-called paradoxical work Dialogo della Discordia (1542), in which style as well as content factor into the author’s interest in ancient sophistic rhetoric. In analyzing the subject, the paper focuses on the influence of Erasmus’ Praise of Folly (1511) in Speroni’s dialogue. In so doing, the paper also intends to contribute to a deeper understandin…Read more
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Bibliografia ficiniana: Studi ed edizioni delle opere di Marsilio Ficino dal 1986Accademia 2 101-36. 2000.This is the first complete bibliography on Marsilio Ficino and his work, including primary and secondary sources, since 1986.
Areas of Specialization
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
European Philosophy |