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Religion and the Modernity of Renaissance Humanism
Argues that the theology of the Italian Renaissance looks forward in certain key respects to the theologies of the Enlightenment and to modern ecumenism; discusses Nicolaus Cusanus, Marsilio Ficino. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Thomas More and others.Histor
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Marsilio Ficino and the Religion of the Philosophers
This essay seeks to characterize the way Marsilio Ficino thought about the relationship of philosophical reason and religious belief. It argues that Ficino is conservative in his theological method but that his theory of the sources of religious knowledge and his views on the place of Christianity in the family of world religions are much more innovative and point forward to Rousseau and theologians of the Romantic period such as Schleiermacher.Histor
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Manetti's Socrates and the Socrateses of Antiquity
This article argues that Giannozzo Manetti's Life of Socrates (c. 1440), seemingly a random pastiche of ancient sources, is in fact carefully constructed to present a particular image of Socrates, a Socrates who can serve as a model for the humanistic movement of the early fifteenth century.Histor
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Civic Knighthood in the Early Renaissance: Leonardo Bruni's De militia (ca. 1420)
Leonardo Bruni's aim in the De militia (ca. 1420) was to co-opt the most glamorous of medieval ideals, the ideal of chivalry, and to reinterpret it in terms of Greco-Roman ideals of military service. In so doing he aimed to make the reform of knighthood in Renaissance Florence into an aspect of the revival of antiquity.Histor
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Petrarch and the Canon of Neo-Latin Literature
An analysis of the reception of Petrarch in Italy and Europe from the late fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries, based on the circulation of his texts in manuscript and printed editions. Also contains a discussion of Petrarch's failed attempt to gain access to the canon of Latin literature.Histor
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Plato’s Psychogony in the Later Renaissance: Changing Attitudes to the Christianization of Pagan Philosophy
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Ficino, Avicenna and the Occult Powers of the Rational Soul
Argues that the received account of Ficino's magic, that it is a gentle, natural or spiritus-based magic, are inadequate and that in some little-read passages of his Platonic Theology Ficino revealed his belief in the possibility of a higher and more powerful "angelic" magic based in the rational soul.Histor
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