RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY
Volume I: The Italian Philosophers (376.1)
Table of Contents
Preface by Arturo B. Fallico & Herman Shapiro
1. FRANCESCO PETRARCA
On the Remedies of Good and Bad Fortune (De remediis utriusque fortunae, Book I, selected dialogues)
2. LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI
Three Dialogues (Intercoenales, complete)
3. LORENZO VALLA
On Free Will (De libero arbitrio, complete)
4. GIANOZZO MANETTI
On the Dignity and Excellence of Man (De dignitate et excellentia hominis, Preface and Book IV, complete)
Suggested Readings
1. GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA
Letter to Ermolao Barbaro (Epistola, June 3, 1485, complete)
2. MARSILIO FICINO
Concerning the Sun (De sole, abridged)
3. GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA
Oration On the Dignity of Man (Oratio, complete)
4. LEONE EBREO
On Love and Desire
A Dialogue between Philo and Sophia (Dialoghi d'amore, The First Dialogue)
Suggested Readings
1. PIETRO POMPONAZZI
On God's Foreknowledge and Human Freedom (De fato, de libero arbitrio et de praedestinatione, Book IV, complete)
2. TORQUATO TASSO
On the Art of Poetry (Discorsi dell'arte poetica, First Discourse, complete)
Suggested Readings
IV. THE PHILOSOPHERS OF NATURE
1. BERNARDINO TELESIO
On the Nature of Things According to Their Own Proper Principles
(De rerum natura iuxta propria principia, Book I, Chapters I-XVI, complete)
2. TOMMASO CAMPANELLA
On the Sense and Feeling in All Things and on Magic (Del senso delle cose e dellamagia, Book I, complete, and Book V, Chapters I, V, VI, IX, complete)
3. GIORDANO BRUNO
On the Infinite, the Universe and Worlds (De l'infinito, universo e mondi, Argument of Dialogues I-IV, and Dialogue V, complete)
Suggested Readings
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Thanks to the contributor:
John Peterson |