Teaching Plato in Italian Renaissance Universities
Edited by Eva Del Soldato
A new chapter in the history of the Platonic tradition: the introduction of Platonic teaching in the Universities of the Italian Renaissance.
During the Renaissance, the Arts curriculum in universities was based almost exclusively on the teaching of Aristotle. With the revival of Plato, however, professors of philosophy started to deviate from the official syllabus and teach Plato’s dialogues. This collection of essays offers the first comprehensive overview of Platonic teaching in Italian Renaissance universities, from the establishment of a Platonic professorship at the university of Florence-Pisa in the late 15th century to the introduction of Platonic teaching in the schools and universities of Bologna, Padua, Venice, Pavia and Milan in the 16th and 17th centuries. The essays draw from new evidence found in manuscripts and archival material to explore how university professors adapted the format of Plato’s dialogues to suit their audience and defended the idea that Plato could be accommodated to university teaching. They provide significant and fundamental insight into how Platonism spread during the 16th and 17th centuries and how a new interpretation of Plato emerged, distinct from the Neoplatonic tradition revived by Marsilio Ficino.
- Edited by Eva Del Soldato
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Priscien lu par Guillaume de Champeaux et son ecole. Les Notae Dunelmenses (Durham, D.C.L., C.IV.29)
Volume 43
Radulphi Britonis Quaestiones super librum Divisionum Boethii
Radulphi Britonis Opera Philosophica, volume 1
Volume 50
Breve compendium in duo prima capita tertii De anima Aristotelis
A Critical Edition with Introduction and Indices
Volume 52
De la Lune a la Terre
Les debats sur le premier livre des Meteorologiques dAristote au Moyen Age latin (XIIe-XVe siecles)
Volume 53
Neoplatonism in the Middle Ages.
New Commentaries on 'Liber de Causis' and 'Elementatio Theologica'
Volume 42
Non est excellentior status
Vaquer a la philosophie medievale: Etudes offertes en hommage a Claude Lafleur
Volume 49
Hervaeus Natalis O.P. De quattuor materiis sive Determinationes contra magistrum Henricum de Gandavo
Vol. II: De esse et essentia. De materia et forma. A Critical Edition from Selected Manuscripts
Volume 35
Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia
Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge
Volume 48
Hervaeus Natalis O.P. De quattuor materiis sive Determinationes contra magistrum Henricum de Gandavo
Vol. I: De formis (together with his 'De unitate formae substantialis in eodem supposito'). A critical Edition from Selected Manuscripts
Volume 30
Memory and Recollection in the Aristotelian Tradition
Essays on the Reception of Aristotle's De memoria et reminiscentia
Volume 47
Glosa Victorina super partem Prisciani De Constructione (ms. Paris, Bibliotheque de l’Arsenal 910)
Volume 27
Mentale Satze und das Problem semantischer Antinomien
Die Insolubilia von Pierre d'Ailly: Historische Studie und textkritische Edition
Volume 46
Lectura Erfordiensis in I-VI Metaphysicam, together with the 15th-century Abbreviatio Caminensis
Introduction, Critical Edition and Indexes
Volume 16
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