Harmony and contrast : Plato and Aristotle in the early modern period / edited by Anna Corrias and Eva Del Soldato.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corrias, Anna, editor.

Del Soldato, Eva, editor.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 242.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 242

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Aristotle.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

ix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Harmony & contrast

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

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.

Contents:

Part I: Ficino and beyond : philosophy and religion. Styles and methods of philosophical interpretation in Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plotinus / Stephen Gersh

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0197267297

9780197267295

OCLC:

1264721272