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Back to SearchHoP 350 - The Sentence - Machiavelli on Republicanism
Episode 113
Peter celebrates reaching 350 episodes by explaining a single sentence in Machiavelli's "Discourses."
5 years, 9 months ago
HoP 349 - No More Mr Nice Guy - Machiavelli
Episode 112
Machiavelli’s seminal work of political advice, "The Prince," tells the ruler how to be strong like a lion and cunning like a fox.
5 years, 10 months ago
HoP 348 - The Sweet Restraints of Liberty - Republicanism and Civic Humanism
Episode 111
Did “civic humanism” really make republicanism a newly dominant political theory in the Italian Renaissance?
5 years, 10 months ago
HoP 347 - Bonfire of the Vanities - Savonarola
Episode 110
The prophetic preacher Girolamo Savonarola attacks pagan philosophy and puts forward his own political ideas, before coming to an untimely end.
5 years, 11 months ago
HoP 346 - Cecilia Muratori on Animals in the Renaissance
Episode 109
An interview with Cecilia Muratori, an expert on the surprisingly modern ideas about non-human animals that emerged in the Renaissance.
5 years, 11 months ago
HoP 345 - What a Piece of Work is Man - Manetti and Pico on Human Nature
Episode 108
Pico della Mirandola and Giannozzo Manetti praise humans as the centerpiece of the created world. But what about the other animals?
6 years ago
HoP 344 - The Count of Concord - Pico della Mirandola
Episode 106
Pico della Mirandola argues for the harmony of the ancient authorities, draws on Jewish mysticism, and questions the value of humanist rhetoric.
6 years ago
HoP 343 - As Far as East from West - Jewish Philosophy in Renaissance Italy
Episode 107
Jewish philosophers in Renaissance Italy, focusing on Leone Ebreo’s Dialogues of Love, the Averroism of Elijah del Medigo, and Italian Kabbalah.
6 years, 1 month ago
HoP 342 - Denis Robichaud on Plato in the Renaissance
Episode 104
An interview with Denis Robichaud on how, and why, Plato was read in the Italian Renaissance.
6 years, 1 month ago
HoP 341 - True Romance - Theories of Love
Episode 105
Ficino describes a “Platonic” love purified of sexuality, prompting a debate carried on by Pico della Mirandola, Pietro Bembo, and Tullia d’Aragona.
6 years, 1 month ago