Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHoP 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…
6 years, 2 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.
6 years, 3 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.
6 years, 3 months ago
HoP 350 - The Sentence - Machiavelli on Republicanism
Episode 113
Peter celebrates reaching 350 episodes by explaining a single sentence in Machiavelli's "Discourses."
6 years, 4 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.
6 years, 4 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?
6 years, 4 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.
6 years, 5 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.
6 years, 5 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, 6 months 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, 6 months ago