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- Philosophy, Classics, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Greek Religion, History of Philosophy, and 54 moreRenaissance Philosophy, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, Philology, Neoplatonism, Plato, History Of Platonic Tradition, History of philology, Intellectual History, Italian Studies, Latin Literature, History, Medieval Philosophy, Renaissance Platonism, Paleography, Medieval and Neolatin Texts, Proclus, Iamblichus, Plotinus, Bessarion, Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Hermeneutics, Porphyry, Manuscript Studies, Rare Books and Manuscripts, History of Atheism, Rhetoric, Classical Reception Studies, Humanistic philology, Medieval And Humanistic Philology, Pythagoreanism, History of Religion, Philosophy Of Religion, History of theology, Translation Studies, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Erasmus, Lorenzo Valla, Schleiermacher, Mythology, Ancient Greek Mythology, Dimitri Gutas, Arabic Philosophy, Islamic Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Islamic education, Friedrich Creuzer, Al Kindi (Philosophy), Avicenna, Ibn Sina, Philosophy of Religion, and Continental Philosophy of Religion (Philosophy)edit
Research Interests: Philosophy Of Religion, Plato, Neoplatonism and late antique philosophy, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, and 15 moreRenaissance Philosophy, Renaissance Platonism, Italian Humanism, Proclus, Pythagoreanism, Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha, Neoplatonism, Platonism, Neoplatonism and Pythagoreanism, Iamblichus, Christian Neoplatonism, Marsilio Ficino, Pythagoras, Plato's Republic, and History of Philosophy
This article analyzes new evidence from the marginalia to Ficino’s Plotinus manuscripts and offers a novel reading of Ficino’s “De Vita” 3. It settles scholarly disagreements concerning Paul O. Kristeller’s manuscript research and Frances... more
This article analyzes new evidence from the marginalia to Ficino’s Plotinus manuscripts and offers a novel reading of Ficino’s “De Vita” 3. It settles scholarly disagreements concerning Paul O. Kristeller’s manuscript research and Frances Yates’s Hermetic thesis about “De Vita” 3, and reconsiders accepted conclusions regarding the centrality of Hermetic magic in Ficino’s philosophy. It demonstrates the origins and sources for “De Vita” 3 in Ficino’s reading of Plotinus’s explanations of prayer, and also reveals Iamblichus’s overlooked influence on Ficino: on the performative nature of philosophy in “De Vita” 3, and even on Ficino’s acknowledgment of the pseudonymity of the Hermetica.
Research Interests: Translation Studies, Plato, Neoplatonism and late antique philosophy, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance Philosophy, and 42 moreRenaissance Platonism, Magic, Manuscript Studies, Hermes Trismegistus and Hermetica, Augustine, Theurgy, Plotinus, Proclus, Pythagoreanism, Magic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion), Plato and Platonism, Medieval And Humanistic Philology, Neoplatonism, Occultism, Archaeology of Ritual and Magic, Hermetism, History of Hermetic Philosophy, Neoplatonism and Pythagoreanism, Al Kindi (Philosophy), Iamblichus, Christian Neoplatonism, Porphyry, Picatrix, Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance magic and astrology, Michael Psellos, Chaldean Oracles, Hermeticism, Marginalia, Ralph Cudworth, Synesius of Cyrene, The Orphic Hymns, eusebius of Caesarea, Isaac Casaubon, Renaissance Quarterly, Corpus Hermeticum, Frances A. Yates, Roger Bacon, Blasius of Parma, Hermetic Corpus, Religious and Magical Practices, and Paul Oskar Kristeller
In most Western European languages, conversion is etymologically linked to the Latin word conversio. In Latin, however, conversio is used to translate two rather different, and in certain contexts even incompatible, Greek terms indicating... more
In most Western European languages, conversion is etymologically linked to the Latin word conversio. In Latin, however, conversio is used to translate two rather different, and in certain contexts even incompatible, Greek terms indicating spiritual change: epistrophê and metanoia. At the time of the great Hellenistic revival that marked the fifteenth century, how did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) translate epistrophê when venturing into the first Latin translation of Plotinus's (204/5-270) Enneads? Was Ficino aware of the hermeneutic distance that divides Plotinus's world and Early Modern Christianity? And if so, how did he manage to make Plotinus's thinking on spiritual change acceptable for a Western Christian audience? By looking closely at how Ficino translated Plotinus's language of spiritual transformation, this essay will illustrate the enduring influence of the Florentine philosopher on Early Modern conceptions of conversion, while also contributing to current debates on this problematic concept from a linguistic angle.
Research Interests: Philosophy, Translation Studies, Neoplatonism and late antique philosophy, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, and 19 moreRenaissance Philosophy, Early Christianity, Religious Conversion, Plotinus, Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Medieval And Humanistic Philology, Neoplatonism, Biomass to fuel conversion, Iamblichus, Marsilio Ficino, Christian Theology, Pierre Hadot, Italian Renaissance, Edgar Wind, Metanoia, A. D. Nock, epistrophe, and conversio
The present paper discusses the question of Marsilio Ficino's lost translations of Proclus' Elements of Physics and Elements of Theology. It reviews all known evidence for Ficino's work on the Elements of Physics and Elements of Theology,... more
The present paper discusses the question of Marsilio Ficino's lost translations of Proclus' Elements of Physics and Elements of Theology. It reviews all known evidence for Ficino's work on the Elements of Physics and Elements of Theology, examines new references and fragments of these texts in Ficino's manuscripts, especially in his personal manuscript of Plotinus' Enneads, and studies how they fit within the Florentine's philosophical oeuvre. The present case studies of manuscript evidence demonstrate how Proclus accompanied Ficino from his early 'scholastic background' through to his mastery of the Platonic tradition late in his career, especially, as is shown, in his study of Pseudo-Dionysius and Plotinus. Despite the fact that scholarship at times pits scholasticism and Renaissance Platonism against each other, in this sense Proclus—largely due to the Elements—bridges the two cultures.
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Research Interests: Intellectual History, Plato, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance Philosophy, History Of Platonic Tradition, and 8 moreAugustine, Plato and Platonism, Humanistic philology, Medieval And Humanistic Philology, Neoplatonism, Marsilio Ficino, Plato Manuscripts; Platonism and Neoplatonism in Byzantium and from Byzantium to Italy;, and History of Philosophy
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An international academic conference highlighting the holdings of the Vatican Library and opportunities for future research.
May 8-10, 2016
University of Notre Dame
For further details: vaticanlibrary.nd.edu
May 8-10, 2016
University of Notre Dame
For further details: vaticanlibrary.nd.edu
Research Interests: Medieval Philosophy, Art History, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, and 14 moreHistory of Science, Medieval Theology, Renaissance Philosophy, Manuscript Studies, Eastern Christianity, Numismatics, Paleography, History of music, Vatican library, Greek manuscripts, Latin manuscripts, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Topography and Urban History of Rome, and History of Philosophy
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Research Interests: Intellectual History, Philosophy, Rhetoric, Plato, Aristotle, and 45 moreRenaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, Renaissance Philosophy, Ficino, Renaissance Platonism, Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian Humanism, Socrates, Augustine, Plotinus, The Classical Tradition, Proclus, Augustine of Hippo, Pythagoreanism, Pseudo-Dionysius, Plato and Platonism, Humanistic philology, Neoplatonism, "Middle" Platonism, Diogenes Laertius, Neopythagoreanism, Platonism, Iamblichus, Damascius, Olympiodorus, Dionysius the Areopagite, Angelo Poliziano, Porphyry, Marsilio Ficino, Pythagoras, Archytas, Orpheus, Philolaus of Croton, Cardinal Pietro Bembo, Marsilio Ficino and Renaissance revival of Plato, Ciceronianism, Alcinous, Neolatin Studies, History of Classical Philology, Numenius of Apamea, History of Philosophy, Hermetic Corpus, Medieval and Neolatin Texts, and Gianfrancesco Pico Della Mirandola
The change in worship of polytheistic societies or the change of faith in the monotheistic ones, is a phenomenon studied by specialists of different historical, archaeological, anthropological or historical-religious disciplines, but... more
The change in worship of polytheistic societies or the change of faith in the monotheistic ones, is a phenomenon studied by specialists of different historical, archaeological, anthropological or historical-religious disciplines, but never seen in a multidisciplinary perspective as a unitary phenomenon. By studying the interactions between people and trying to identify and describe the elements of exchange and knowledge of the Other, Alteritas now wants – with this miscellanea – to deal with a religious phenomenon that involves both people and places, both the modern and the ancient world. Contributions of approaches from archaeology, social sciences, history, anthropology, religious studies of different historical periods demonstrate reflection and various disciplinary approach on the subject.