RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY

Volume I: The Italian Philosophers (376.1)

Table of Contents

Edited & Translated by Arturo B. Fallico & Herman Shapiro

Preface by Arturo B. Fallico & Herman Shapiro

I. RENAISSANCE HUMANISM

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

II. RENAISSANCE PLATONISM

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

III. RENAISSANCE ARISTOTELIANISM

  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

Thanks to the contributor:
John Peterson

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