HoP 367 - Brian Copenhaver on Renaissance Magic
February 28th, 2021
Our guest Brian Copenhaver joins us to explain how Ficino and other Renaissance philosophers thought about magic.
HoP 366 - The Men Who Saw Tomorrow - Renaissance Magic and Astrology
February 14th, 2021
Ficino, Pico, Cardano, and other Renaissance thinkers debate whether astrology and magic are legitimate sciences with a foundation in natural philosophy.
HoP 365 - Spirits in the Material World - Telesio and Campanella on Nature
January 31st, 2021
Was the natural philosophy of Bernardino Telesio and Tommaso Campanella the first modern physical theory?
HoP 364 - Guido Giglioni on Renaissance Medicine
January 17th, 2021
An interview with Guido Giglioni, who speaks to us about the sources and philosophical implications of medical works of the Renaissance.
HoP 363 - Man of Discoveries - Girolamo Cardano
January 3rd, 2021
The polymath Girolamo Cardano explores medicine, mathematics, philosophy of mind, and the interpretation of dreams.
HoP 362 - Just What the Doctor Ordered - Renaissance Medicine
December 20th, 2020
Connections between philosophy and advances in medicine, including the anatomy of Vesalius.
HoP 361 - The Measure of All Things - Renaissance Mathematics and Art
December 6th, 2020
The humanist study of Pythagoras, Archimides and other ancient mathematicians goes hand in hand with the use of mathematics in painting and architecture.
HoP 360 - Dag N. Hasse on Arabic Learning in the Renaissance
November 22nd, 2020
An interview with Dag Nikolaus Hasse on the Renaissance reception of Averroes, Avicenna, and other authors who wrote in Arabic.
HoP 359 - There and Back Again - Zabarella on Scientific Method
November 8th, 2020
Jacopo Zabarella outlines the correct method for pursuing, and then presenting, scientific discoveries.
HoP 358 - Of Two Minds - Pomponazzi and Nifo on the Intellect
October 25th, 2020
Pietro Pomponazzi and Agostino Nifo debate the immortality of the soul and the cogency of Averroes’ theory of intellect.
HoP 357 - David Lines on Aristotle’s Ethics in the Renaissance
October 11th, 2020
An interview with David Lines on the role of Aristotle in Renaissance ethics.
HoP 356 - I’d Like to Thank the Lyceum - Aristotle in Renaissance Italy
September 27th, 2020
Aristotle’s works are edited, printed, and translated, leading to new assessments of his thought among both humanists and scholastics.
HoP 355 - Town and Gown - Italian Universities
September 13th, 2020
The blurry line dividing humanism and scholastic university culture in the Italian Renaissance.
HoP 354 - Greed is Good - Economics in the Italian Renaissance
July 26th, 2020
Leon Battista Alberti, Benedetto Cotrugli, and Poggio Bracciolini grapple with the moral and conceptual problems raised by the prospect of people getting filthy rich.
HoP 353 - The Good Place - Utopias in the Italian Renaissance
July 12th, 2020
Tommaso Campanella’s “The City of the Sun” and other utopian works of the Italian Renaissance describe perfect cities as an ideal for real life politics.
HoP 352 - The Teacher of Our Actions - Renaissance Historiography
June 28th, 2020
Bruni, Poggio, Machiavelli, and Guicciardini explore political ideas and historical method in works on Roman and Italian history.
HoP 351 - Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli
June 14th, 2020
Leading Machiavelli scholar Quentin Skinner joins Peter to discuss morality, history, and religion in the Prince and the Discourses.
HoP 350 - The Sentence - Machiavelli on Republicanism
May 31st, 2020
Peter celebrates reaching 350 episodes by explaining a single sentence in Machiavelli's "Discourses."
HoP 349 - No More Mr Nice Guy - Machiavelli
May 17th, 2020
Machiavelli’s seminal work of political advice, "The Prince," tells the ruler how to be strong like a lion and cunning like a fox.
HoP 348 - The Sweet Restraints of Liberty - Republicanism and Civic Humanism
May 3rd, 2020
Did “civic humanism” really make republicanism a newly dominant political theory in the Italian Renaissance?
