Greeks and Latins in Renaissance Italy

John Monfasani is Professor in the Department of History, at the State University of New York at Albany, USA.

• Contents: Preface; Greek Renaissance migrations; The Averroism of John Argyropoulos and his Quaestio utrum intellectus humanus sit perpetuus; L'insegnamento di Teodoro Gaza a Ferrara; Theodore Gaza as a philosopher; Greek and Latin learning in Theodore Gaza's Antirrheticon; The pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata and Aristotle's De Animalibus in the Renaissance; Giovanni Gatti of Messina: a profile and an unedited text; Nicholas of Cusa, the Byzantines, and the Greek language; Marsilio Ficino and the Plato-Aristotle controversy; Aristotelians, Platonists, and the missing Ockhamists: philosophical liberty in pre-Reformation Italy; The theology of Lorenzo Valla; Disputationes Vallianae; Indexes.

'Monfasani's book is a school of methodology and as such should be mandatory for all graduate students.' Sixteenth Century Journal