Humanist Academies and the "Platonic Academy of Florence"
Date
2009
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Odense University Press (Copenhagen) for the Danish Institute in Rome (Det Danske Institut i Rom)
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Hankins, James. Forthcoming. Humanist academies and the “Platonic Academy of Florence.” In Proceedings of the conference, "From the Roman Academy to the Danish Academy in Rome," ed. H. Ragn Jensen and M. Pade. Analecta Romana Instituti Danici Supplementum. Copenhagen: Odense University Press.
Abstract
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 academies, an association of literary scholars and gentlemen.
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