Classical Traditions in Renaissance Philosophy

Contents: Preface: Ancient Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance: Francesco Filelfo’s lost letter De ideis; Cicero, Stoicism and textual criticism: Poliziano on katorthoma; The transformation of Platonic love in the Italian Renaissance; Lorenzo and the philosophers; Classical Ethics in the Renaissance: Francesco Filelfo on emotions, virtues and vices: a re-examination of his sources; Renaissance commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics; Melanchthon’s ethics commentaries and textbooks; Ethnicorum omnium sanctissimus: Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations from Xylander to Diderot; The Aristotelian Canon: The Pseudo-Aristotelian Theology in 16th- and 17th-century Europe; Daniel Heinsius and the author of De mundo; Aristotle’s God and the authenticity of De mundo: an early modern controversy; Erasmus and the canonization of Aristotle: the letter to John More, with an appendix by M.C. Davies; Alexander of Aphrodisias, Gianfrancesco Beati and the problem of Metaphysics a; Like father, like son: Aristotle, Nicomachus and the Nicomachean Ethics; The printing history of Aristotle in the 15th century: a bibliographical approach to Renaissance philosophy; Index.