Programme Venue: Academy Building (Broerstraat 5)

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1 Programme Venue: Academy Building (Broerstraat 5) Thursday, 13 June Registration, Academy Building Welcome Address Plenary session Chair: Lodi Nauta Jill Kraye, Beyond Moral Philosophy: Renaissance Humanism and the Philosophical Canon David A. Lines, Sources, Authorities and Books in Renaissance Philosophy: The Case of Ulisse Aldrovandi Brian Copenhaver, I have never philosophized for any other reason but to do philosophy : Pico's Job Description SESSION 1: Rome and the Philosophy of History Chair: James Hankins - S. de Beer, Competing Philosophies of History in Humanist Visions of Rome - A. Weststeijn, How Empires Rise and Fall: Visions of Rome in Dutch Humanism - J. Nieuwstraten, Humanist Scholarship between the Late Renaissance and the Early Enlightenment: A Seventeenth-Century Dutch Case-Study SESSION 2: Marsilio Ficino Chair: Valery Rees - A. Corrias, Marsilio Ficino and the Philosophical Vocabulary of Plotinus - Z. Radeva, Marsilio Ficino on Heavenly Souls and Bodies - V. Sanzotta, Marsilio Ficino and his Sources: Some Remarks on an Unpublished Epitome of Plato's Parmenides SESSION 3: Renaissance Psychology I Chair: Per Landgren - T. Jeschke, Renaissance Philosophical Psychology as a Transitional Concept

2 - E. del Soldato, The Physician is a Philologist: Pompeo della Barba and the Accademia Fiorentina on the translation of scientific texts between Latin and vernacular - S. de Boer, The Resilience of Faculty Psychology SESSION 4: Reading, Teaching, and Commentaries Chair: Peter Mack - N. Boef, Plato in the Renaissance: the case of Jacques Lefèvre d Étaples Hecatonomiae - R. Oosterhoff, Reading Themistius in a Renaissance Classroom - Z. von Martels, Humanist Use of Apophthegms as the Essence of Practical Wisdom SESSION 5: Nicholas of Cusa Chair: John Monfasani - J. Aleksander, Nicholas of Cusa s Humanist Philosophy of History - M. H. van der Meer, Lays and Prophets: Exoteric and Esoteric Aspects of the Philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa - C. Catà, Literature and the Pursuit of Happiness. Studia Humanitatis and Beatificatio Hominis in Marsilio Ficino, Nicholas of Cusa, and Charles de Bovelles Conference Reception at the Hall of the Province of Groningen (Martinikerkhof 12) Friday, 14 June Plenary session Chair: Brian P. Copenhaver Chris Celenza, The Philological Dimensions of Renaissance Philosophy Jan Papy, Lipsius' Humanist Investigations into the Stoic School and its Traces in the History of Philosophy (17th-20th c.) Peter Mack, Language and Thought in Agricola and Erasmus John Monfasani, Humanism and Humanists in the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Fifteenth Century

3 SESSION 6: Renaissance Psychology II Chair: Sander de Boer - D. Cellamare, Whether the Soul is ἐντελέχεια or ἐνδελέχεια. Humanist Psychology at Renaissance Universities in Germany and the Low Countries - G. Steiris, The Study of the Soul in Renaissance Utopian literature - H. Hirai, Humanism, Philosophy and Medicine: Renaissance Debates on Galen s Theory of the Soul SESSION 7: Humanist Views of Life; Anthropology Chair: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer - U. Falkeid, The Perspective of the Guest: Petrarch s De vita solitaria and De otio religioso - D. Verardi, Coluccio Salutati Philosopher: The De Nobilitate Legum et Medicinae - J. Vance, Between Origen and Erasmus: Early Humanist Exegesis, Philosophy and Anthropology SESSION 8: Italian Humanism Chair: David Lines - J. De Keyser, "Philosophy and philosophers in the writings of Francesco Filelfo." - M. Sgarbi, Sperone Speroni and Vernacular Humanism - E. Saltetto, The Scholastic Humanism of Angelo Poliziano: two examples from the Miscellaneorum Centuria II SESSION 9: Moral Philosophy Chair: Lodi Nauta - S. Ebbersmeyer, Humanism as a Thought style: The case of moral philosophy - M. Roick, The Ways of Fortune. The Liber de bona fortuna between scholastic and humanist modes of writing - P. Gray, Seneca s Double-Edged Sword: Roman Pragmatism in Erasmus Praise of Folly and Montaigne s Essays SESSION 10: Scripture, Philology, and Humanist Reading Chair: Chris Celenza - A. den Haan, Biblical Scholarship at the Vatican Court: Giannozzo Manetti s New Testament - C. Kaiser, Assimilating new ancestry: Patristic Greek philosophy in humanist texts - J. Fujitani, From Philology to Philosophy: Johannes Reuchlin s De arte cabalistica SESSION 11: Logic, Music, Mathematics

4 Chair: Brian Copenhaver - G. Claessens, The Drawing Board of Imagination: Federico Commandino and John Philoponus - H. A. Kim, The Place of Renaissance Humanism in the History of Musical Thought: The Humanists Contribution to the Development of Musical Ethics, c.1480 c M. Hanke, Syncretic approaches to semantic antinomies in the postmedieval period: case studies on Ormazius, Stengel and Caramuel A Festschrift for Michael J. B. Allen (in the Faculty of Philosophy, Oude Boteringestraat 52) with drinks Everybody is cordially invited to attend the presentation of The Rebirth of Platonic Theology, a Festschrift for Michael J. B. Allen, edited by James Hankins and Fabrizio Meroi (Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2013) Saturday, 15 June Plenary session Chair: Jill Kraye James Hankins, The Political Thought of Renaissance Humanism Luca Bianchi, Humanism and the best method of interpreting Aristotle Michael Allen: Prisci Philologi: The Humanists as Pythagoreans Andrea A. Robiglio, Nobility and Testimony: The Coalescence of two Scholastic Questions in the Age of Humanism SESSION 12: Humanism and the Low Countries/Germany Chair: Jan Papy - L. Panizza, Ulrich von Hutten s aggiornamento of Lorenzo Valla s On the False Donation of Constantine in Reformation Northern Europe - M. Hoeckx, The distinction between external discipline and internal obedience as the key feature of Melanchthon s moral philosophy - P. Osorio, Justus Lipsius on Chrysippus Distinction of Causes in Physiologia 1.14: Philosophical Ignorance or Humanist Project? SESSION 13: Renaissance Aristotelianism; Early Modern Science Chair: Luca Bianchi

5 - L. Nauta, Juan Luis Vives as a moderate critic of Aristotelianism - P. Landgren, Humanistic traits in the works of Jacobus Zabarella: Renaissance humanism in Aristotelianism - B. Goldberg, On the Origins of Empirical Philosophy: From Humanism to Harvey SESSION 14: Giovanni Pico and Marsilio Ficino Chair: Michael Allen - E. M. Lingaas, Pico della Mirandola Between Humanism and Scholasticism - V. Salas, Pico Della Mirandola on Being and Unity: A Thomistic Solution to an Ancient Quarrel - V. Rees, Philosophical approaches in Marsilio Ficino s St Paul commentary SESSION 15: Natural Philosophy Chair: Andrea A. Robiglio - B. Bartocci, The influence of classical tradition on the scientific revolution: Paolo Beni and Galileo Galilei - A. Bönker-Vallon,... in order to satisfy the importunity of some impatient and rigorous rabbi.... Anti-humanistic and humanistic argumentation in Giordano Bruno s natural philosophy - B. Garcia, On The Integrity Of Natural Science. Between Scholasticism and Humanism: The Case Of Dominic Of Flanders, O. P. ( 1479) SESSION 16: Political Philosophy Chair: Arthur Weststeijn - E. De Bom, Nicolaus Vernulaeus as a Political Philosopher - M. Muccillo, Humanistic erudition and military art: Francesco Patrizi, the rediscovery of Polybius and the platonic foundation of the science of the war - N. Stone Villani, Agostino Nifo And The Rise Of Modern Aristotelian Political Theory SESSION 17: From the Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment Chair: Willem Verhoeven - F. Verhaart, Arguing about Humanists in a Time of Crisis: Reflections on Humanism in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters - M. Williams, The Diplomat's Dog, or, The Enlightenment-Era Reframing of Girolamo Rorario's Quod animalia (1544) - R. Romao, Francisco Sanches as a humanist philosopher Conference Dinner, 't Feithhuis, Martinikerkhof 10 (opposite Martini tower)