Late Ancient Greek Thinkers and Their Renaissance Readers
Philosophy, Mathematics and Medicine in Europe, ca. 1450–1600
Late Ancient Greek Thinkers and Their Renaissance Readers
Philosophy, Mathematics and Medicine in Europe, ca. 1450–1600
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This volume provides the first assessment of the powerful, yet largely understudied, influence of late ancient philosophy, mathematics, and medicine in early modern Europe (ca. 1450-1600).
The 15th and 16th centuries are rightfully regarded as the period in which classical texts were rediscovered, interrogated, edited, and translated for the contemporary Latin world through the
philological and exegetical work of the humanists. However, this new and intensive dialogue with the ancient past was far more complex than scholars have so far imagined. This book breaks new ground in its exploration of the connection between late antiquity and the Renaissance, both materially and intellectually: it provides precise accounts of the transmission of texts and examines how late antiquity was reframed through the Renaissance tradition.
Assuming a transnational perspective, 11 contributions discuss the complex ways in which late ancient commentators on Plato and Aristotle, Euclid and Hippocrates, informed the early modern reception of the texts they commented on. The authors discussed here include renowned authors such as Proclus and John Philoponus and lesser-known – yet no less important – names such as Damascius and Paul of Aegina. The chapters focus on long- debated topics such as the immortality of the soul, the knowledge of universals, the structure of the cosmos, the relationship between health and disease, and the use of authority in both philosophical inquiry and medical theory.
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Table of Contents
Anna Corrias and Tommaso De Robertis
Part I.Translations and Transmission
1. Recovering and Translating Philoponus's Physics in Renaissance Italy
Tommaso De Robertis
2. Species, Idea, Forma: Ficino's Translation of the Platonic Theory of Ideas
Stephen Gersh
3. Margins of Neoplatonism: The Book of Causes and the Elements of Theology in the Fifteenth Century
Dragos Calma
Part II. Pedagogy
4. Neoplatonic Pedagogy and Proclus's Republic Commentary in the Renaissance
Maude Vanhaelen
5. Alcinous in Paris: Pedagogy, Philology, and Rivalries
Eva Del Soldato
Part III. Soul and Theurgy
6. Marsilio Ficino's Reception of Iamblichus
Merlin Cox
7. Ficino and Olympiodorus on Plato's Phaedo: Daemons, Souls, and Calypso's Veil
Anna Corrias
Part IV. Metaphysics and Mathematics
8. The Renaissance of Proclus: 15th- to the 17th-century Rediscoveries and Dasypodius's Retrieval of Common Mathematics
Álvaro José Campillo Bo
9. Damascius's Ineffable Metaphysics in Patrizi's Nova de Universis Philosophia
Sara Ahbel Rappe
Part V. Medicine
10. Late Antique Plague in Renaissance Medical Writings
Craig Martin
11. Bridging Greek and Arabic Medicine: The Fortunes of Paul of Aegina in Sixteenth-Century Medical Writing
Silvia Marchiori
Product details
| Published | 26 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 344 |
| ISBN | 9781350530027 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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