Harmony and Contrast Plato and Aristotle in the Early Modern Period

by Corrias, Anna; Del Soldato, Eva

• ISBN13: 9780197267295
• ISBN10: 0197267297
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-04-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Anna Corrias, University of Cambridge,Eva Del Soldato, University of Pennsylvania

Anna Corrias is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the University of Toronto, Canada, where she works on the reception of late ancient philosophy in the early modern period, with a special focus on the Platonic tradition. She authored the monograph
The Renaissance of Plotinus: The Soul and Human Nature in Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the "Enneads" (London, 2020), and several articles.


Eva Del Soldato is Associate Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Executive Secretary of the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS). Her work focuses mainly on the reception of the Aristotelian and Platonic traditions in the early modern period. Her
publications include the monographs Simone Porzio (Rome, 2010) and Early Modern Aristotle (Philadelphia, 2020).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors, ANNA CORRIAS AND EVA DEL SOLDATO
Introduction
Part I: Ficino and Beyond: Philosophy and Religion
1. Styles and Methods of Philosophical Interpretation in Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plotinus, STEPHEN GERSH
2. Reading the De Anima with Aristotle's Student: Marsilio Ficino on Theophrastus on the Intellect, ANNA CORRIAS
3. Theory and Theurgy, or How Ficino Wished to Dispatch the Averroist Intellect through Platonic Good Works, GUIDO GIGLIONI
4. 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
5. Pletho and Scholarios on Using and Abusing Plato and Aristotle, GEORGE KARAMANOLIS
6. Samuel Parker's Free and Impartial Censure of the Platonick Philosophie, DOUGLAS HEDLEY
Part III: Academies and Universities
7. Interpreting Plato's Geometrical Elements in Renaissance Aristotle Commentaries, CRAIG MARTIN
8. Between Past and Present: Paganino Gaudenzi (1595-1649) and the Comparatio Tradition, EVA DEL SOLDATO
9. Platonic Love and Aristotelian Ethics in Alessandro Piccolomini's Institutione (1542), ELEANOR WEBB
10. Platonic Science in the Vernacular. Sebastiano Erizzo's Italian translation of Plato's Timaeus (1557), TOMMASO DE ROBERTIS
Index