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Alongside the relationship between philosophy and painting, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a speculative interest emerged in the concept of three dimensional vision in Cusa, Jan van Eyck, Marsilio Ficino, and Giorgione da Castelfranco.
Gianluca Cuozzo
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University Online Teaching in Italy: Diffusion and Characteristics of Students
ABSTRACT The paper deals with the complex theme of the online universities in Italy, starting from the phenomenon historical reconstruction and framing the universities on the basis of the main analysis metrics (property, training offer, organic, territorial dislocation).
Vito Di Santo +2 more
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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic
Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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Education towards a reasonable humanism
Abstract Education is twice over concerned with human nature, most extensively as it is presupposed in the pursuit of diverse aims, and more specifically, as understanding it and applying such understanding are themselves made objects of study and teaching. The latter was a principal concern of ancient, renaissance and enlightenment humanists.
John Haldane
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Representações do belo no Quattrocento florentino: Leon Battista Alberti e Marsilio Ficino
O ensaio analisa duas representações do belo do Renascimento Florentino, aquelas do humanista Leon Battista Alberti e do filósofo neoplatônico Marsilio Ficino.
Felipe Charbel Teixeira
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The Harmonious Soul and the Defence of Music in Sixteenth‐Century England
Abstract This article examines the history of the concept of the soul as a harmony—as opposed to merely being like a harmony—in sixteenth‐century England, demonstrating how debates over music's morality in sixteenth‐century England were a catalyst for theorising an increasing affinity between music and the soul.
Katherine Butler
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Hermetic Roots of Marsilio Ficino’s Anthropocentric Thought [PDF]
Marsilio Ficino’s relationship to the Hermetic literary tradition has long been a controversial issue in academic discussion. Although Ficino is commonly known as a translator and keen reader of the philosophical Hermetica, his allegiances to the ...
Lauri Ockenström
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆
Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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ABSTRACT This article deals with the use of language in historiography and with this usage's implications for the conception of history and the historiographical operation/practice. Whereas theorists of “presence” believe that “presence” and “reality” can be grasped in spoken language and written texts, thus generally considering them as a medium that ...
LUIGI ALONZI
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Ficino východní: zkušenost interpretace teologie a světelné metafyziky Marsilia Ficina
This article contains an analysis of the influence of the Corpus Areopagiticum on the thought of the Renaissance Platonist Marsilio Ficino, in the process of which the author thematizes especially Dionysius’ differentiation of two aspects of the Divine ...
Ivančenko, Georgij
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