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Jill Kraye, Professor Emerita of the Warburg Institute, is renowned internationally for her scholarship on Renaissance philosophy and humanism. This volume pays tribute to her achievements with essays by friends, colleagues, and doctoral students—all leading scholars—on subjects as diverse as her work. Articles on canonical figures such as Marsilio Ficino and Justus Lipsius mix with more quirky pieces on alphabetic play and the Hippocratic aphorisms. Many chapters seek to bridge the divide between humanism and philosophy, including David Lines's survey of the way fifteenth-century humanists actually defined philosophy and Brian Copenhaver's polemical essay against the concept of humanist philosophy. The volume includes a full bibliography of Professor Kraye's scholarly publications. Contributors are: Michael Allen, Daniel Andersson, Lilian Armstrong, Stefan Bauer, Dorigen Caldwell, Brian Copenhaver, Martin Davies, Germana Ernst, Guido Giglioni, Robert Goulding, Anthony Grafton, James Hankins, J. Cornelia Linde, David Lines, Margaret Meserve, John Monfasani, Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Jan Papy, Michael Reeve, Alessandro Scafi, and William Stenhouse.

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Author:   Anthony Ossa-Richardson ,  Margaret Meserve
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   273
Weight:   0.873kg
ISBN:  

9789004355019

ISBN 10:   9004355014
Pages:   460
Publication Date:   07 December 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Foreword List of Illustrations 1 Jill Kraye: The History of Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline  Anthony Grafton Humanism and its Reception 2 The Unpolitical Petrarch: Justifying the Life of Literary Retirement  James Hankins 3 Lauro Quirini and His Greek Manuscripts: Some Notes on His Culture  John Monfasani 4 Translating Aristotle in Fifteenth-Century Italy: George of Trebizond and Leonardo Bruni  J. Cornelia Linde 5 Illuminated Copies of Plutarchus, Vitae illustrium virorum, Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1478; New Attributions, New Patrons  Lilian Armstrong 6 A Roman Monster in the Humanist Imagination  Margaret Meserve 7 Tau’s Revenge  Anthony Ossa-Richardson 8 A Knowing Likeness: Artists and Letterati at the Farnese Court in mid Sixteenth-Century Rome  Dorigen Caldwell 9 Greek Antiquities and Greek Histories in the Late Renaissance  William Stenhouse 10 Against ‘Humanism’: Pico’s Job Description  Brian Copenhaver Renaissance Philosophy and its Antecedents 11 Acquiring Wings: Augustine’s Recurrent Tensions on Creation and the Body  Alessandro Scafi 12 The Florilegium Angelicum and ‘Seneca’, De moribus  Michael Reeve 13 Defining Philosophy in Fifteenth-Century Humanism: Four Case Studies  David A. Lines 14 Marsilio Ficino on Power, on Wisdom, and on Moses  Michael J. B. Allen 15 ‘If you Don’t Feel Pain, you Must Have Lost your Mind’: The Early Modern Fortunes of a Hippocratic Aphorism  Guido Giglioni 16 Life in Prison: Cardano, Tasso and Campanella  Germana Ernst 17 Five Versions of Ramus’s Geometry  Robert Goulding 18 Justus Lipsius as Historian of Philosophy: The Reception of the Manuductio ad stoicam philosophiam (1604) in the History of Philosophy  Jan Papy 19 Can History be Rational?  Stefan Bauer 20 A Crayon for Jill  Daniel Andersson The Publications of Jill Kraye, 1979–2017  Martin Davies

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important and timely [...] this is a very rich volume of contributions whose center is represented by a thorough reconsideration of the question of humanism in relation to philosophy. Massimo Lollini, University of Oregon. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Fall 2019), pp. 1113-1114.

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Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Ph.D. (2011), Warburg Institute, is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Southampton. His first monograph, based on his doctoral thesis, was The Devil's Tabernacle: The Pagan Oracles in Early Modern Thought (2013), and he has published a range of articles and book chapters on various aspects of early modern intellectual history. Margaret Meserve, Ph.D. (2001), Warburg Institute, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought (2008) and has published widely on Renaissance humanism, book history, and political communication.

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