Harmony and Contrast

Anna Corrias is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the University of Toronto, Canada, where she works on the reception of late ancient philosophy in the early modern period, with a special focus on the Platonic tradition. She authored the monograph The Renaissance of Plotinus: The Soul and Human Nature in Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the "Enneads" (London, 2020), and several articles.Eva Del Soldato is Associate Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Executive Secretary of the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS). Her work focuses mainly on the reception of the Aristotelian and Platonic traditions in the early modern period. Her publications include the monographs Simone Porzio (Rome, 2010) and Early Modern Aristotle (Philadelphia, 2020).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart I: Ficino and Beyond: Philosophy and Religion1: STEPHEN GERSH: Styles and Methods of Philosophical Interpretation in Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plotinus2: ANNA CORRIAS: Reading the De Anima with Aristotle's Student: Marsilio Ficino on Theophrastus on the Intellect3: GUIDO GIGLIONI: Theory and Theurgy, or How Ficino Wished to Dispatch the Averroist Intellect through Platonic Good Works4: ALLEGRA BAGGIO-CORRADI: The Paduan Philosopher at Prayer: The Continuity of Being in Niccolò Leonico Tomeo's SadoletoPart II: Enemies of Plato and Aristotle5: GEORGE KARAMANOLIS: Pletho and Scholarios on Using and Abusing Plato and Aristotle6: DOUGLAS HEDLEY: Samuel Parker's Free and Impartial Censure of the Platonick PhilosophiePart III: Academies and Universities7: CRAIG MARTIN: Interpreting Plato's Geometrical Elements in Renaissance Aristotle Commentaries8: EVA DEL SOLDATO: Between Past and Present: Paganino Gaudenzi (1595-1649) and the Comparatio Tradition9: ELEANOR WEBB: Platonic Love and Aristotelian Ethics in Alessandro Piccolomini's Institutione (1542)10: TOMMASO DE ROBERTIS: Platonic Science in the Vernacular. Sebastiano Erizzo's Italian translation of Plato's Timaeus (1557)Index

Harmony & Contrast is a coherent volume containing significant contributions to the dynamic way in which Plato and Aristotle were harmonized or set at odds with each other in the Early Modern world, whether as in formal comparatio or as part of various philosophical and philological projects of a newly invigorated Platonism.