Part III: Academies and Universities. Platonic science in the vernacular : Sebastiano Erizzo's Italian translation of Plato's Timaeus (1557) / Tommaso de Robertis. Reading the De Anima with Aristotle's Student : Marsilio Ficino on Theophrastus on the intellect / Anna Corrias -- Theory and theurgy, or how Ficino wished to dispatch the Averroist intellect through Platonic good works / Guido Giglioni -- The Paduan philosopher at prayer : the continuity of being in Niccolò Leonico Tomeo's Sadoleto / Allegra Baggio Corradi -- Part II: Enemies of Plato and Aristotle. Pletho and Scholarios on using and abusing Plato and Aristotle / George Karamanolis -- Samuel Parker's Free and Impartial Censure of the Platonick Philosophie / Douglas Hedley -- Part III: Academies and Universities. Interpreting Plato's geometrical elements in Renaissance Aristotle Commentaries / Craig Martin -- Between past and present : Paganino Gaudenzi (1595-1649) and the Comparatio Tradition / Eva del Soldato -- Platonic love and Aristotelian ethics in Alessandro Piccolomini's Institutione (1542) / Eleanor Webb -- Platonic science in the vernacular : Sebastiano Erizzo's Italian translation of Plato's Timaeus (1557) / Tommaso de Robertis.
Summary:
"Plato and Aristotle were very much alive between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The essays in this volume investigate the interaction, both in terms of harmony and contrast, between the two philosophers in early modernity, that is in a time when long-forgotten texts became available and a new philological awareness was on the rise. Dealing with famous and less famous early modern interpreters and philosophers, in a transnational and translinguistic perspective, this volume reveals the agendas behind the discussions on Plato's and Aristotle's philosophies. In studying these texts, it is hard to imagine a more significant collision of big names with big ideas. This project takes us to the centre of the intellectual life of the period and its most exciting debates"-- Provided by publisher.
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