Et Amicorum: Essays on Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy

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.

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