Episodes
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
HoP 357 - David Lines on Aristotle's Ethics in the Renaissance
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
An interview with David Lines on the role of Aristotle in Renaissance ethics.
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
HoP 356 - I’d Like to Thank the Lyceum - Aristotle in Renaissance Italy
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Aristotle’s works are edited, printed, and translated, leading to new assessments of his thought among both humanists and scholastics.
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
HoP 355 - Town and Gown - Italian Universities
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
The blurry line dividing humanism and scholastic university culture in the Italian Renaissance.
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
HoP 354 - Greed is Good - Economics in the Italian Renaissance
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Sunday Jul 26, 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.
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
HoP 353 - The Good Place - Utopias in the Italian Renaissance
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Sunday Jul 12, 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.
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
HoP 352 - The Teacher of Our Actions - Renaissance Historiography
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Bruni, Poggio, Machiavelli, and Guicciardini explore political ideas and historical method in works on Roman and Italian history.
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
HoP 351 - Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Leading Machiavelli scholar Quentin Skinner joins Peter to discuss morality, history, and religion in the Prince and the Discourses.
Sunday May 17, 2020
HoP 349 - No More Mr Nice Guy - Machiavelli
Sunday May 17, 2020
Sunday May 17, 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.
Sunday May 03, 2020
HoP 348 - The Sweet Restraints of Liberty - Republicanism and Civic Humanism
Sunday May 03, 2020
Sunday May 03, 2020
Did “civic humanism” really make republicanism a newly dominant political theory in the Italian Renaissance?
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
HoP 347 - Bonfire of the Vanities - Savonarola
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
The prophetic preacher Girolamo Savonarola attacks pagan philosophy and puts forward his own political ideas, before coming to an untimely end.
Sunday Apr 05, 2020
HoP 346 - Cecilia Muratori on Animals in the Renaissance
Sunday Apr 05, 2020
Sunday Apr 05, 2020
An interview with Cecilia Muratori, an expert on the surprisingly modern ideas about non-human animals that emerged in the Renaissance.
Sunday Mar 22, 2020
HoP 345 - What a Piece of Work is Man - Manetti and Pico on Human Nature
Sunday Mar 22, 2020
Sunday Mar 22, 2020
Pico della Mirandola and Giannozzo Manetti praise humans as the centerpiece of the created world. But what about the other animals?
Sunday Mar 08, 2020
HoP 344 - The Count of Concord - Pico della Mirandola
Sunday Mar 08, 2020
Sunday Mar 08, 2020
Pico della Mirandola argues for the harmony of the ancient authorities, draws on Jewish mysticism, and questions the value of humanist rhetoric.
Sunday Feb 23, 2020
HoP 343 - As Far as East from West - Jewish Philosophy in Renaissance Italy
Sunday Feb 23, 2020
Sunday Feb 23, 2020
Jewish philosophers in Renaissance Italy, focusing on Leone Ebreo’s Dialogues of Love, the Averroism of Elijah del Medigo, and Italian Kabbalah.
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
HoP 342 - Denis Robichaud on Plato in the Renaissance
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
An interview with Denis Robichaud on how, and why, Plato was read in the Italian Renaissance.
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
HoP 341 - True Romance - Theories of Love
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Ficino describes a “Platonic” love purified of sexuality, prompting a debate carried on by Pico della Mirandola, Pietro Bembo, and Tullia d’Aragona.
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
HoP 340 - Footnotes to Plato - Marsilio Ficino
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
Marsilio Ficino’s revival of Platonism, with a focus on his proofs for the soul’s immortality in his magnum opus, the Platonic Theology.
Sunday Dec 29, 2019
HoP 339 - I’d Like to Thank the Academy - Florentine Platonism
Sunday Dec 29, 2019
Sunday Dec 29, 2019
The blossoming of Renaissance Platonism under the Medici, who supported the scholarship of Poliziano, Ficino, and Pico della Mirandola.
Sunday Dec 15, 2019
HoP 338 - All About Eve - the Defense of Women
Sunday Dec 15, 2019
Sunday Dec 15, 2019
Refutation of misogyny in Moderate Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella.
Sunday Dec 01, 2019
HoP 337 - More Rare Than the Phoenix - Italian Women Humanists
Sunday Dec 01, 2019
Sunday Dec 01, 2019
Cassandra Fedele, Isotta Nogarola, and Laura Cereta seek fame and glory through eloquence and learning.