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Plato in the Italian Renaissance, Vol. 1

James Hankins 1990 © Brill Academic Publishers Inc.
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  • 9789004095526 (paper)
  • 9789004091610 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: 400-1400
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  • Frontmatter
  • VOLUME I
  • Preface (page xv)
  • Abbreviations (page xxv)
  • Introduction: The Revival of Plato (page 3)
  • Part I: Florence (page 27)
    • 1. Plato and the Defense of the Humanities (page 29)
    • 2. Plato as Civic Humanist (page 58)
    • 3. Minor Translators in Florence and the Papal Court (page 81)
    • Diffusion and influence of the new translations-Conclusions: Elective affinities between Plato and the early Florentino-Roman school of humanism? (page 95)
  • Part II: Milan (page 103)
    • 1. Uberto Decembrio: Renaissance Signory and the Republic (page 105)
    • 2. Pier Candido Decembrio's Celestial Polity (page 117)
    • 3. The Platonic Translations of Antonio Cassarino (page 154)
  • Part III: Rome (page 161)
    • Summary of the achievements of early Quattrocento Platonic scholarship-Cultural changes in the mid-Quattrocento: the new interest in philosophy among humanists, the rise of philological criticism.
    • 1. George of Trebizond and Plato (page 165)
    • 2. Trebizond's Translations of the Laws and the Parmenides (page 180)
    • 3. Pletho and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy (page 193)
    • 4. Cardinal Bessarion and Plato (page 217)
    • 5. Bessarion vs. Trebizond (page 236)
  • Part IV: Florence (page 265)
    • 1. Marsilio Ficino, Doctor of Souls (page 267)
    • 2. Ficino and the Platonis opera omnia (page 300)
    • 3. Ficino on Socrates, Plato, and the Platonic Corpus (page 318)
    • 4. The Commentaria in Platonem: Exegesis as Apologetic (page 341)
    • Conclusion (page 360)
  • VOLUME II
  • Preface to Volume II
  • Part I: Appendices
    • 1. The Dates of Ep. I.1 [I.8], the Latin Phaedo, the Dialogi ad Petrum Histrum and Some Other Early works of Leonardo Bruni (page 367)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SP 67.3 (Jul. 1992): 680-682 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2863691
SCJ 23.1 (Spring. 1992): 186-188 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2542104
ITAL 69.4 (Winter. 1992): 535-537 http://www.jstor.org/stable/479702
RQ 45.3 (Autumn. 1992): 549-553 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2862677
AHR 97.5 (Dec. 1992): 1559-1560 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2166045
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