Herman Shapiro and Arturo B. Fallico, Eds.

 

Preface by Herman Shapiro and Arturo B. Fallico

 

I. GERMANY AND THE LOW COUNTRIES

·      NICOLAUS OF CUSA (CUSANUS)

On Learned Ignorance (De docta ignorantia, Book I, Chapters I-XII)

·      JOHANNES REUCHLIN

On the Cabalistic Art (De arte cabalistica, Book I, selection )

·      ULRICH VON HUTTEN

Eight Letters of Obscure Men (Epistolae obscurorum virorum, Letters II, IX,

XII, XV, XXIII. XXXV, XXXVII, XLII)

·      HENRICUS CORNELIUS AGRIPPA VON NETTESHEIM

On the Uncertainty of Our Knowledge (De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et

artum, Chapters I, V, VII, XI, XII, XVI, XXII, XLIX, L, XCVII and Conclusion of the Work)

·      JUSTUS LIPSIUS

On Constancy (De constantia. Book I, abridged)

·      DESIDERIUS ERASMUS

On the Philosophy of Christ (Paraclesis, complete)

Suggested Readings

 

II. FRANCE

·      JACQUES LEFEVRE, D'ETAPLES
On Translating the Gospels into French (Epitre exhortatoire, complete)

·      PETRUS RAMUS

Thoughts about Aristotle (Aristotelicae animadversiones, opening remarks)

·      MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Of Experience (Essais, III, 13: De l'experience, abridged)

·      PIERRE CHARRON

Concerning Wisdom (De la sagesse, Book II, Chapters I, II, III)

·      GUILLAUME DU VAIR

The Moral Philosophy of the Stoics (La philosophie morale des Stoiques. abridged)

Suggested Readings

 

 

III. ENGLAND

·      JOHN COLET

On Pagan Philosophy and the Ninefold Order of Being (Ennaratio in Epistolam primam S. Pauli ad Corinthios, Chapter X abridged; Chapter XII, complete)

·      SIR THOMAS MORE

On the Moral Temper of Utopia (Utopia, selections)

·      ROGER ASCHAM

The Italianated Englishman (The Scholemaster, Book I, selection)

Suggested Readings

 

IV. SPAIN

·      JUAN LUIS VIVES

Two Dialogues on Education (Exercitatis linguae latinae. Dialogues XXIII, XXIV)

·      ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Concerning the Direction of Contemplative Souls (Llama de amor viva. Stanza III, 17-60)

·      FRANCISCO SUAREZ

Man Acts Freely (Disputationes metaphysicae, Disp. XIX, Sections 2-6, abridged)

Suggested Readings