Browsing by Author "Hankins, James"
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The Chronology of Leonardo Bruni's Later Works (1437-1443)
Hankins, James (Centro Interdipartimentale di studi umanistici, Università di Messina, 2007) -
Civic Knighthood in the Early Renaissance: Leonardo Bruni's De militia (ca. 1420)
Hankins, James (2011-12-20)Leonardo Bruni's aim in the De militia (ca. 1420) was to co-opt the most glamorous of medieval ideals, the ideal of chivalry, and to reinterpret it in terms of Greco-Roman ideals of military service. In so doing he aimed ... -
Coluccio Salutati e Leonardo Bruni
Hankins, James (Treccani, 2013-01-11) -
Editorial Criteria for ‘Provisional Editions’ of Renaissance Latin Texts: Some Comments
Hankins, James (Leo S. Olschki, 2012) -
Exclusivist Republicanism and the Non-Monarchical Republic
Hankins, James (SAGE Publications, 2010)The idea that a republic is the only legitimate form of government and that non-elective monarchy and hereditary political privileges are by definition illegitimate is an artifact of late eighteenth century republicanism, ... -
Ficino's Critique of Lucretius
Hankins, James (Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento and The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2010-02-18)After an early flirtation with Lucretius, Marsilio Ficino, the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance, became a confirmed enemy of the Epicurean philosopher. This chapter discusses the extensive critique of Lucretius ... -
Ficino, Avicenna and the Occult Powers of the Rational Soul
Hankins, James (Leo S. Olschki, 2007)Argues that the received account of Ficino's magic, that it is a gentle, natural or spiritus-based magic, are inadequate and that in some little-read passages of his Platonic Theology Ficino revealed his belief in the ... -
Garin and Paul Oskar Kristeller: Existentialism, Neo-Kantianism and the Post-War Interpretation of Renaissance Humanism
Hankins, James (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2011)Eugenio Garin and Paul Oskar Kristeller were the most important interpreters of Renaissance humanism in the half century following the Second World War. This article explores the differences between their two interpretations ... -
The Global Lettered City: Humanism and Empire in Colonial Latin America and the Early Modern World
McManus, Stuart Michael (2016-05-10)Historians have long recognized the symbiotic relationship between learned culture, urban life and Iberian expansion in the creation of “Latin” America out of the ruins of pre-Columbian polities, a process described most ... -
Greek Studies in Italy: From Petrarch to Bruni
Hankins, James (Le Lettere, 2007) -
Humanism in the Vernacular: The Case of Leonardo Bruni
Hankins, James (Brill Academic Publisher, 2006) -
Humanist Academies and the "Platonic Academy of Florence"
Hankins, James (Odense University Press (Copenhagen) for the Danish Institute in Rome (Det Danske Institut i Rom), 2009)A comparative study of the humanist academies of Bessarion, Pomponio Leto, Giovanni Gioviano Pontano and Marsilio Ficino, arguing that Ficino's supposed academy resembles an informal school and is not, like the other ... -
Introduction to Epistolarum libri VIII
Hankins, James (Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2007) -
Kristeller and Ancient Philosophy
Hankins, James (Italica Press, 2006) -
Learning Ennobles: Study Abroad, Renaissance Humanism, and the Transformation of the Polish Nation in the Republic of Letters, 1517-1605
Tworek, Michael Thomas (2014-10-22)My dissertation examines how study abroad transformed education and society in early modern Europe. My works centers on Poland, a region often considered peripheral by contemporaries and scholars alike. Through combining ... -
The lost continent: Neo-latin literature and the rise of modern European literatures, Catalog of an exhibition at the Houghton Library, 5 March - 5 May 2001
Hankins, James (Harvard Library, 2001) -
Machiavelli, Civic Humanism, and the Humanist Politics of Virtue
Hankins, James (Maney Publishing, 2014)Modern studies of Italian humanist political thought emphasize the theme of republican liberty, but this conception has been understood in anachronistic ways and exaggerated in importance. Much more central is the problem ... -
Malinconia mostruosa: Ficino e le cause fisiologiche dell’atesimo
Hankins, James (Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, 2007)Discusses Marsilio Ficino's theory that atheism is caused by humoral imbalances in the body; his cures for this parlous condition; the later tradition of physiological cures for atheism, culminating in Robert Burton's ... -
Manetti's Socrates and the Socrateses of Antiquity
Hankins, James (Le Lettere, 2008)This article argues that Giannozzo Manetti's <i>Life of Socrates</i> (c. 1440), seemingly a random pastiche of ancient sources, is in fact carefully constructed to present a particular image of Socrates, a Socrates who can ... -
Marsilio Ficino and the Religion of the Philosophers
Hankins, James (Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, 2008)This essay seeks to characterize the way Marsilio Ficino thought about the relationship of philosophical reason and religious belief. It argues that Ficino is conservative in his theological method but that his theory of ...