Intellectual History of the Renaissance

Giordano Bruno e il problema della modernità - Da <<Cosmos & History>>

by Stefano Ulliana

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World without end. Nicholas of Cusa’s view on time and eternity

by Matthieu van der Meer

Published in: Zweder von Martels, Alasdair A. Macdonald and Jan Veenstra (eds.), Christian Humanism. Essays in Honor of Arjo Vanderjagt, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, vol.142, Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2009, pp. 317-337.

Discusses the relationship between Nicholas of Cusa's Neoplatonic concepts of time/eternity and his speculations on... more Discusses the relationship between Nicholas of Cusa's Neoplatonic concepts of time/eternity and his speculations on the Last Day.

Intellige semper spiritaliter. The role of the Bible in the philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa.

by Matthieu van der Meer

Published in Mediaevalia. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Mediaeval Studies Worldwide, vol. 31 (2010)

Dicusses the relationship of faith and reason in the works of Nicholas of Cusa, arguing that the Scriptures have a... more Dicusses the relationship of faith and reason in the works of Nicholas of Cusa, arguing that the Scriptures have a propaedeutical function in the quest for truth. 

Der Λόγος παραινετικός des Michaelos Apostoles. Edition und Übersetzung

by Alexander Riehle

in: Buζαντινά 31, 2011, 45-82

Composed around 1473, Michael Apostoles’ Admonitory oration puts forward arguments for the reformation of the study of... more Composed around 1473, Michael Apostoles’ Admonitory oration puts forward arguments for the reformation of the study of Greek in contemporary schools in Italy. This article provides a new, significantly improved edition and German translation of the text.

Del Tao a Juan Luis Vives: el extraordinario tránsito de los relatos de la vida soñada

by antonio dominguez leiva

Les motifs de la décapitation dans l'art et la littérature d'Occident

by antonio dominguez leiva

La vie comme songe?: une tentation de l'Occident

by antonio dominguez leiva

Les motifs de la décapitation dans l'art et la littérature d'Occident: du legs médiéval à la post-modernité:(une archéologie du supplice et du macabre), 1450 …

by antonio dominguez leiva

Una interpretazione della Novella del Grasso legnaiuolo

by Giulio Savelli

Published in "Strumenti critici" 74, n.s., IX, 1994, 1, pp. 21-47.

Thomas More's Richard III: probing the limits of humanism

by Hanan Yoran

Francis Bacon and Atomism: A Reappraisal

by Silvia Manzo

“Circularity, the Soul-Vehicle, and the Renaissance Rebirth of Reincarnation: Marsilio Ficino and Isaac Abarbanel on the Possibility of Transmigration,” Accademia: Revue de la Societe Marsile Ficin, vol. VI (2004), pp. 63-94.

by Brian Ogren

"The Forty-Nine Gates of Wisdom as Forty-Nine Ways to Christ: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Heptaplus and Nahmanidean Kabbalah," Rinascimento: Journal of the National Institute for Renaissance Studies, vol. xlix (2009), pp. 27-43.

by Brian Ogren

Gentili, the Poets, and the Laws of War

by Christopher Warren

“Gentili, the Poets, and the Laws of War” in The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations: Alberico Gentili and the Justice of Empire, eds. Benedict Kingsbury and Benjamin Straumann (Oxford: OUP, 2011). 146-162.

"Who does it, then?": _Hamlet_ and Early Modern Conceptions of Culpability

by Jonathan Muggleston

draft 2010

The paper draws attention to the parallels between Hamlet's madness defense against the accusations of Laertes and... more The paper draws attention to the parallels between Hamlet's madness defense against the accusations of Laertes and John Locke's definition of personhood.  The similarities are so striking that I look for a common legal framework within both of these texts work, and put forth the jurisprudence of Henry de Bracton as a possibility.  I do not assert that Locke was writing in response to _Hamlet_ or that Shakespeare and Locke were writing in response to de Bracton; rather that de Bracton codified a social consensus within which both later writers worked.

Piccola bibliografia bruniana

by Stefano Ulliana