Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes list
Tommaso Campanella’s “The City of the Sun” and other utopian works of the Italian Renaissance descri
Bruni, Poggio, Machiavelli, and Guicciardini explore political ideas and historical method in works
Leading Machiavelli scholar Quentin Skinner joins Peter to discuss morality, history, and religion i
Peter celebrates reaching 350 episodes by explaining a single sentence in Machiavelli's "Discourses.
Machiavelli’s seminal work of political advice, "The Prince," tells the ruler how to be strong like
Did “civic humanism” really make republicanism a newly dominant political theory in the Italian Rena
The prophetic preacher Girolamo Savonarola attacks pagan philosophy and puts forward his own politic
An interview with Cecilia Muratori, an expert on the surprisingly modern ideas about non-human anima
Pico della Mirandola and Giannozzo Manetti praise humans as the centerpiece of the created world. Bu
Pico della Mirandola argues for the harmony of the ancient authorities, draws on Jewish mysticism, a
Jewish philosophers in Renaissance Italy, focusing on Leone Ebreo’s Dialogues of Love, the Averroism
An interview with Denis Robichaud on how, and why, Plato was read in the Italian Renaissance.
Ficino describes a “Platonic” love purified of sexuality, prompting a debate carried on by Pico dell
Marsilio Ficino’s revival of Platonism, with a focus on his proofs for the soul’s immortality in his
The blossoming of Renaissance Platonism under the Medici, who supported the scholarship of Poliziano
Refutation of misogyny in Moderate Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella.
Cassandra Fedele, Isotta Nogarola, and Laura Cereta seek fame and glory through eloquence and learni
Christine de Pizan's political philosophy, epistemology, and the refutation of misogyny in her "City
An interview with Sabrina Ebbersmeyer about the relation of emotion to reason and the body, and panp
The rediscovery of Epicurus, Lucretius, and Sextus Empiricus spreads challenging ideas about chance,
