Harmony and Contrast

Anna Corrias is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the University of Toronto, Canada, where she works on the reception of late ancient philosophy in the early modern period, with a special focus on the Platonic tradition. She authored the monograph The Renaissance of Plotinus: The Soul and Human Nature in Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the "Enneads" (London, 2020), and several articles. Eva Del Soldato is Associate Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Executive Secretary of the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS). Her work focuses mainly on the reception of the Aristotelian and Platonic traditions in the early modern period. Her publications include the monographs Simone Porzio (Rome, 2010) and Early Modern Aristotle (Philadelphia, 2020).

List of Illustrations
ANNA CORRIAS AND EVA DEL SOLDATO: Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Ficino and Beyond: Philosophy and Religion
1: STEPHEN GERSH: Styles and Methods of Philosophical Interpretation in Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plotinus
2: ANNA CORRIAS: Reading the De Anima with Aristotle's Student: Marsilio Ficino on Theophrastus on the Intellect
3: GUIDO GIGLIONI: Theory and Theurgy, or How Ficino Wished to Dispatch the Averroist Intellect through Platonic Good Works
4: ALLEGRA BAGGIO-CORRADI: The Paduan Philosopher at Prayer: The Continuity of Being in Niccolò Leonico Tomeo's Sadoleto
Part II: Enemies of Plato and Aristotle
5: GEORGE KARAMANOLIS: Pletho and Scholarios on Using and Abusing Plato and Aristotle
6: DOUGLAS HEDLEY: Samuel Parker's Free and Impartial Censure of the Platonick Philosophie
Part III: Academies and Universities
7: CRAIG MARTIN: Interpreting Plato's Geometrical Elements in Renaissance Aristotle Commentaries
8: EVA DEL SOLDATO: Between Past and Present: Paganino Gaudenzi (1595-1649) and the Comparatio Tradition
9: ELEANOR WEBB: Platonic Love and Aristotelian Ethics in Alessandro Piccolomini's Institutione (1542)
10: TOMMASO DE ROBERTIS: Platonic Science in the Vernacular. Sebastiano Erizzo's Italian translation of Plato's Timaeus (1557)
Index