Renaissance Platonism
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Art and Ideas Francisco de Hollanda and Sixteenth-Century Aesthetics The historians of aesthetics who have studied the problem of ideas in art theory (from Panofsky to Baeumler and Tatarkiewicz) have overlooked Da pintura antiga, by... more
Revisiting La città del sole in light of recent scholarship on Campanella’s naturalism and with recourse to key works of his philosophy, I examine how his utopia systematically re-writes Plato’s ideal city from the Republic by... more
The reception of Plato’s Timaeus during the Early Renaissance coincided with ground-breaking developments in the conceptualisation of architectural space and the ‘invention’ of perspective. This gave rise to fertile areas of influence of... more
Full article (open access) published in «Filosofia Italiana», XV (2020), n. 1: "Filosofia ebraica in Italia (XV-XIX secolo)", a cura di Guido Bartolucci, Libera Pisano e Michela Torbidoni, pp. 53-72
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 53 (1990): 144 162. Argues that Cosimo de'Medici did not found a Platonic academy in Florence
This article studies the discussion on Creation and the Trinity by a major seventeenth-century Aristotelian Julius Caesar Scaliger, thereby aiming to shed a new light on the hitherto neglected aspect of Renaissance Aristotelianism. Since... more
This article analyzes two chapters of Francesco Patrizi’s Nova de universis philosophia that deal with a topic widely debated in European intellectual circles at the time—the origin of tides. By deconstructing Patrizi’s views on the... more
Landino's Renaissance dialogue on Aen. 1-6 in the Disputationes Camaldulenses of 1474 may have stumbled upon two very important principles of the epic's organization: Vergil's use of Plato's two doctrines of forms (the eidetic progress in... more
Il volume ripercorre lo sviluppo del pensiero del giovane Nicola Cusano dalla frequentazione del maestro albertista Eimerico da Campo presso l’Università di Colonia (1425) e dal confronto con le posizioni filosofiche dei domenicani dello... more
This paper examines the musical chapters in the Hebdomades (1589), an encyclopedic commentary by the humanist Fabio Paolini on a single line of Vergil (Aeneid VI.646: ‘Obloquitur numeris septem discrimina vocum’). This book, originally... more
This study is devoted to the emotional experience of the famous Renaissance sculptor, goldsmith, and writer, Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571), as it is portrayed in his life writing, the Vita. Providing the variety of arguments on the... more
I show how the English authors of the 16th and 17th centuries consistently adapted and transformed Classical conceptions of the nature and purpose of poetry and literature. A collection of the most important source texts follows the... more
This article analyzes new evidence from the marginalia to Ficino’s Plotinus manuscripts and offers a novel reading of Ficino’s “De Vita” 3. It settles scholarly disagreements concerning Paul O. Kristeller’s manuscript research and Frances... more
The Portrait of Elderly Man, painted by Luca Signorelli, is one of the masterpieces of the portraiture of the Italian Renaissance (Berlin, Staatliche Museen). In the essay, it is proposed the identification of the man in red with... more
The aim of this paper is to provide some acquaintance with the exegetical history of ἐξαίφνης inside the Platonic Tradition, from Plato to Marsilio Ficino, by way of Middle Platonism and Greek Neoplatonism. (Since this is only a draft,... more
Robert Fludd (1574-1637) was a physician from England who wrote expansive books on nearly every subject of human inquiry. In these works are beautiful copperplate engravings that are easily recognized as the hieroglyphic illustrations of... more
... James Hankins and Fabrizio Meroi. ... Campbell and others, moreover, have signalled the influence of Lucretius on Renaissance art, including works by Botticelli, Piero di Cosimo, the sculptor Giovanni di Bertoldo... more
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 53 (1990): 144-62.
Starting with the world famous Ambassadors by Hans Holbein, where a lute with a broken string features mysteriously and prominently, this article aims to explore the origins of the symbolism of the lute with a broken string from the... more
Along with the revival of Platonism, Renaissance Europe saw a surprising proliferation of writings on the world soul, shaping one of the most impressive eras in the history of this perennial theme. The current chapter focuses on key... more
... Alii autem, praeter haec, quae dixi, nos quandoque legentes et quasi docentes audiverunt, etsi ipsi quidem quasi discipuli; non tamen revera discipuli; non enim tantum mihi adrogo, ut docuerim 442 Page 15. THE MYTH OF THE PLATONIC... more
Eine ganze Menge der aus der Bibliotheca Corviniana bekannten Werke waren bis zum Tod Matthias’ nicht im Druck erschienen. In der Mehrzahl beinhalten die Corvinen nicht die uns heute bekannten, vollständigen Texte. Unsere Aufgabe ist es,... more
This inquiry researches the until this day unexplored subject of Western esoteric scrying practices within the context of Media Studies. This study is the first of its kind; an exciting combination of the highly neglected field of Western... more
Through an analysis of his commentary to Song of Songs, Johanan Alemanno emerges as a Hebrew representative of Renaissance Florentine neo-Platonism. His Hesheq Shelomo is a Platonic interpretation of Solomon's desire (Hebrew: hesheq) that... more
The aim of this essay, divided into two parts, is to investigate the relations between musical theory and practice in Marsilio Ficino’s philosophy. The principles of music in the Commentarium in Timaeum and the epistle De rationibus... more
HAY que anotar que la historia de la trasmisión física del Corpus platónico (tradición), durante los períodos Helenístico, Imperial y Bizantino, queda determinada por la recepción de su contenido ideológico en dichos períodos... more
The aim of the article is to take part in the discussion on Plethon's interest in Averroes, a topic that is important for our understanding of the intellectual interactions between and climate in the Latin West and the Byzantine East. The... more
Il concetto di genio si forma nella temperie romantica, ma in realtà nella pratica artistica si annoverano figure geniali anche prima del Settecento. Un caso esemplare è Michelangelo. Il divino, però, oltre le lettere e le Rime, non ha... more
Renaissance Quarterly 44.3 (1991): 429 475. Argues that Ficino's 'academy' was not a philosophical school of the ancient type but a gymnasium for private tuition of arts students, almost all concurrently enrolled at the Florentine Studio,... more
N. Siniossoglou, Radical Platonism in Byzantium: Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Journal of Hellenic Studies 133 (2013) 306-307. Στον περιορισμένο χώρο του JHS επισημαίνονται οι... more