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Augustine and the Humanists
Augustine and the Humanists investigates the reception of Augustine’s De civitate Dei in Italian humanism during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Augustine and the Humanists fills a persistent lacuna by investigating the reception of Augustine’s oeuvre in Italian humanism during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In response to the urgent call for a more extensive and detailed investigation of the reception of Augustine’s works and thought in the Western world, numerous scholars have addressed the topic over the last decades. However, one of Augustine’s major works, the De civitate Dei, has received remarkably little attention. In a series of case studies by renowned spec...
The European Image of God and Man
The present volumes unites papers which explore the European image of god in an intercultural context. They range from classical antiquity to contemporary philosophy and science.
Art, Intellect and Politics
The volume explores the relationship of artists and intellectuals from ancient Greece to modern times.
Dalla prima alla seconda scolastica
Il presente volume corrisponde alla rivista Divus Thomas 27, 2000/03 e comprende i seguenti contributi: Andrea Robiglio, La nozione di velleitas in Tommaso d’Aquino, pp. 15-75; Antonio Petagine, L’intelletto e il corpo: il confronto tra Tommaso d’Aquino e Sigeri di Brabante, pp. 76-119; Alessandro Ghisalberti, Fine ultimo e conoscenza intellettiva, pp. 120-142; Paola Mueller, La fallaciae in dictione in Guglielmo di Ockham, pp. 143-166; Marco Laffranchi, L’interpretazione retorica del linguaggio dei trascendentali in Lorenzo Valla, pp. 167-199; Paola Negro, Intorno alle fonti scolastiche in Hugo Grotius, pp. 200-251; Marco Forlivesi, Materiali per una descrizione della disputa e dell’esame di laurea in età moderna, pp. 252-279.
Alexander of Aphrodisias in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
The greatest ancient interpreter of Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. 200 AD) exerted a profound and enduring influence upon philosophy that extended from Boethius until the modern era. Alexander's interpretations laid the foundation for multiple philosophical views which were promoted as quintessentially Aristotelian by both Islamic and Latin thinkers throughout the Middle Ages. In the Renaissance, the University of Padua, a leading center of philosophical education and thought, established a scholarly tradition named "Alexandrinism" after him.
Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante
This volume explores poetic dialogue and dialogic patterns in medieval vernacular Italian poetry. It focuses on representations of conversion narratives and poetic subjectivity in the writings of Guittone d'Arezzo, Guido Guinizzelli, and Guido Cavalcanti, and Dante.
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Authority Revisited
In-depth essays on Desiderius Erasmus's Novum Instrumentum and Thomas More's Utopia, which were both published for the first time in 1516 in Basel and Leuven respectively, and which have contributed dramatically to the rise of (early) modern Western thought and thoroughly influenced subsequent generations in their literary, philosophical and theological works In the year 1516, two crucial texts for the cultural history of the West saw the light: Desiderius Erasmus' Nouum Instrumentum and Thomas More's Utopia. Both of these works dealt freely with authoritative sources of Western civilization and opened new pathways of thought on the eve of far-reaching religious and political changes. This b...
