Results 31 to 40 of about 162 (131)
The Harmonious Soul and the Defence of Music in Sixteenth‐Century England
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 201-215, April 2025.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
wiley +1 more source
Ghirlandaio, Ficino and Hermes Trismegistus: the Prisca Theologia in the Tornabuoni Frescoes [PDF]
Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2016 The study offers a Neoplatonic reading of certain iconographic elements of Domenico Ghirlandaio’s frescoes in the Tornabuoni Chapel in Florence. It focuses on the nude figure sitting on the steps in the “Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple” as well ...
Agata Anna Chrzanowska
doaj +1 more source
History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 366-383, September 2024.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
wiley +1 more source
Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 2020 La Favola d’ Orfeo (1480) de Ángelo Poliziano es uno de los escritos literarios más ricos y enigmáticos del Renacimiento, especialmente en lo que respecta al debate que ha suscitado entre los especialistas a la hora de discernir su trasfondo alegórico ...
Daniel Ortiz Pereira
doaj +1 more source
Musicianship and the masteries of the stars: music and musicians in the Liber Nativitatum
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 494-518, September 2024.Abstract This article shines a light on the musical contents of a “book of births”, the Liber Nativitatum or Albubather, written by the Persian Astrologer Abu Bakr al‐Hassan ibn al‐Khasib in the ninth century, translated into Latin at the beginning of the thirteenth century, and published in Venice in 1501.
Oliver Doyle
wiley +1 more source
Early modern women philosophers and politics: Accommodating sphere restrictions
Philosophy Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, June 2024.Abstract In his Politics, Aristotle decreed that human beings needed to take part in politics to flourish, but that women, despite being human, needed to stay at home and away from politics. This paper offers an overview of how early modern women philosophers worked to makes their lives more political despite being constricted to the domestic sphere ...
Sandrine Bergès
wiley +1 more source
Hermetic Roots of Marsilio Ficino’s Anthropocentric Thought [PDF]
J@rgonia, 2013 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
doaj
Ficino východní: zkušenost interpretace teologie a světelné metafyziky Marsilia Ficina
Filosofický časopis, 2023 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
doaj +1 more source
The role of the Praenotamenta of Jodocus Badius Ascensius in shaping early modern dramatic criticism
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 416-434, June 2024.Abstract This article examines the profound and enduring legacy of the treatise on classical drama known as Praenotamenta ascensiana in shaping early modern dramatic poetics. Written by Flemish scholar Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462–1535) as a preface to his 1502 edition of the Classical plays of Terence, this work has been unjustly overlooked by the ...
Giulia Torello‐Hill
wiley +1 more source
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 21-45, January 2024.Abstract In this essay, I argue that ‘poetics’—defined as ‘poet‐criticism’, a practitioner’s firsthand reflection on poetic composition (poiēsis) and verse technique (technē)—makes possible for philosophical theology something that has heretofore been overlooked.
Steven Toussaint
wiley +1 more source