Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHoP 360 - Dag N. Hasse on Arabic Learning in the Renaissance
Episode 361
An interview with Dag Nikolaus Hasse on the Renaissance reception of Averroes, Avicenna, and other authors who wrote in Arabic.
5 years, 4 months ago
HoP 359 - There and Back Again - Zabarella on Scientific Method
Episode 359
Jacopo Zabarella outlines the correct method for pursuing, and then presenting, scientific discoveries.
5 years, 4 months ago
HoP 358 - Of Two Minds - Pomponazzi and Nifo on the Intellect
Episode 358
Pietro Pomponazzi and Agostino Nifo debate the immortality of the soul and the cogency of Averroes’ theory of intellect.
5 years, 4 months ago
HoP 357 - David Lines on Aristotle's Ethics in the Renaissance
Episode 356
An interview with David Lines on the role of Aristotle in Renaissance ethics.
5 years, 5 months ago
HoP 356 - I’d Like to Thank the Lyceum - Aristotle in Renaissance Italy
Episode 357
Aristotle’s works are edited, printed, and translated, leading to new assessments of his thought among both humanists and scholastics.
5 years, 5 months ago
HoP 355 - Town and Gown - Italian Universities
Episode 355
The blurry line dividing humanism and scholastic university culture in the Italian Renaissance.
5 years, 6 months ago
HoP 354 - Greed is Good - Economics in the Italian Renaissance
Episode 117
Leon Battista Alberti, Benedetto Cotrugli, and Poggio Bracciolini grapple with the moral and conceptual problems raised by the prospect of people get…
5 years, 7 months ago
HoP 353 - The Good Place - Utopias in the Italian Renaissance
Episode 116
Tommaso Campanella’s “The City of the Sun” and other utopian works of the Italian Renaissance describe perfect cities as an ideal for real life polit…
5 years, 8 months ago
HoP 352 - The Teacher of Our Actions - Renaissance Historiography
Episode 115
Bruni, Poggio, Machiavelli, and Guicciardini explore political ideas and historical method in works on Roman and Italian history.
5 years, 8 months ago
HoP 351 - Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli
Episode 114
Leading Machiavelli scholar Quentin Skinner joins Peter to discuss morality, history, and religion in the Prince and the Discourses.
5 years, 9 months ago