Italian Renaissance, 1983
by: Roger Weir
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Italian Renaissance
12 of 12 presentations availableThursdays, Oct 6, 1983 to Dec 22, 1983
A series of 12 presentations about the Italian Renaissance with an emphasis on a constellation of important persons: Dante Alighieri, Giotto, Petrarch, Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, Donatello, Cosimo de'Medici and Lorenzo de'Medici, Ficino, and Pico Della Mirandola, Sandro Botticelli, Niccolo Machiavelli, Leonardo Da Vinci, Giordano Bruno, Francesco Giorgi, Campanella, and Galileo.
- Dante (1265-1321): The New Life. On World Government, the Paradisio, and Virgil and Beatrice as Spirit Guides @ Oct 06
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- Petrarch (1304-1374): Sonnets and the Figure of Laura; Boccaccio (1313-1375): The Decameron as a Cycle of Life @ Oct 20 play audio
- Fra Angelico (1386-1466) and Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469): Dominican Visionary Artists of the Interior Life @ Oct 27 play audio
- Donatello (1386-1466): Sculptural Refinement of Man; Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464): Philosophical Refinement of the Vision @ Nov 03 play audio
- Cosimo de' Medici (1389-1464) and Lorenzo de' Medici (1449-1495): Florentine Patrons of the Rebirth of Learning @ Nov 10 play audio
- Ficino (1433-1499) and Pico Della Mirandola (1464-1495): Platonic and Hermetic Theology @ Nov 17 play audio
- Botticelli (1444-1510): The Famous Florentine Painter @ Nov 24 play audio
- Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince and the History of Florence; Vesalius (1514-1564): Man Revealed in His Exact Anatomy @ Dec 01 play audio
- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519): The Renaissance Man Refined @ Dec 08 play audio
- Giordano Bruno (1548-1600): Cosmic Orders in the Hermetic Tradition; Francesco Giorgi (1466-1540): Harmonia Mundi @ Dec 15 play audio
- Campanella (1568-1639): Hermetic Science in Utopian City of the Sun; Galileo (1564-1642): Starry Messenger of Science (The New Magic) @ Dec 22 play audio
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- Dante Alighieri
- Filippo Brunelleschi
- Euripides
- Jacob Burckhardt
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Homer
- William Shakespeare
- Tacitus
- Plutarch (Lucius Plutarchus)
- Alexander the Great
- Virgil
- Petrarch
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Scipio Africanus
- Michelangelo
- Bice di Folco Portinari (Beatrice)
- David Hume
- Giotto di Bondone
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
- Nero
- Emperor Domitian
- Philostratus (Lucius Flavius Philostratus)
- Fra Angelico
- Fra Filippo Lippi
- Aeschylus
- Sophocles
- Pico della Mirandola
- Cosimo De' Medici
- Sandro Botticelli
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Caesar Augustus (Octavian)
- Marsilio Ficino
- Charlemagne
- Saint Francis of Assisi
- Pericles
- Saint John the Baptist
- Donatello (Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi)
- Lorenzo de' Medici
- Michelozzo di Bartolomeo
- Pope Nicholas V
- Giovanni de Bici
- Saint Andrew
- Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
- Rinaldo degli Albizzi
- Francesco Sforza
- Richard Nixon
- Pope Eugenius IV
- Benozzo Gozzoli
- Gemistus Plethon
- Mehmed the Conqueror
- Joseph the II of Constantinople
- John VIII Palaiologos
- Tertullian
- Spencer Tracy
- Gentile da Fabriano
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Plato
- Plotinus
- Zarathustra (Zoroaster)
- Pythagoras
- Socrates
- Hermes Trismegistus
- Dionysius the Areopagite
- John Dee
- Roger Bacon
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Giordano Bruno
- Robert Grosseteste
- Abbot Johannes Trithemius
- Moses (Biblical character)
- Angelo Poliziano
- Theodosius I
- Piero de Medici
- Fritz Saxl
- Domenico Albergotti
- Matthias Corvinus
- John Collins
- Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
- Giuliano de' Medici
- Ruth Montgomery
- Tommaso Campanella
- Christopher Columbus
- Trismus
- Colette
- Riechline
- Giovanni Corsi
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Jesus
- Julius Caesar
- James George Frazer
- Salomon Trismosin
- Aristophanes
- Arnold J. Toynbee
- Paracelsus
- Pope Clement VII
- Charles VIII of France
- Albrecht Dürer
- Benvenuto Cellini
- Cesare Borgia
- Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
- Francesco Guicciardini
- Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici
- John Cullen
- Marcello Virgilio Adriani
- Maximilian I
- Polybius
- Pope Alexander VI
- Pope Leo X
- Saint Bartholomew (Bartholomew the Apostle)
- Titus Livi
- Will Durant
- Albert Einstein
- Aristotle
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Ptolemy
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Carl G. Jung
- Francisco Goya
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
- Galileo Galilei
- Cardinal Robert Bellarmine
- Edward Kelly
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- D. P. Walker
- Euclid
- Evan Robbie
- Herbert Spencer
- Hermann Hesse
- Harry Houdini
- Johannes Kepler
- John Collum
- Maimonides
- Maria Medici
- Marina Gamba
- Pope Urban VIII
- Richard Wagner
- Sir Thomas More
- Sister Maria Celeste
- Frances A. Yates
- John Scotus Eriugena
- Heinrich Agrippa
- Ramon Llull
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Horace
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Mary (Mother of Jesus)
- Francesco Giorgi
- Heraclitus
- Giulio Camille
- Giulio Monto Rossini
- John Bruno
- John Winthrop, Jr.
- King Henry III of France
- King James I of England
- William Cecil (Lord Burleigh)
- Marcus Antonius
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Michel de Castelnau (Marquis de Mauvissiere)
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Prince Alasko of Poland (Lasko)
- Rudolf II (Holy Roman Emperor)
- Saint Petronius of Bologna
- Sir Edmund Spenser
- Sir Edward Dyer
- Sir Francis Drake
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Dorothea Whaley Singers
- Earl of Leicester
- Cleopatra
- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
- Giorgio Vasari
- Cimabue (Cenni di Pepo)
- Pope Benedict XI
- Pope Boniface VIII
- Robert the Wise (Robert, King of Naples)
- John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)
- Enrico degli Scrovegni
- Lorenzo Ghiberti
- Leon Battista Alberti
- Judas Iscariot (Biblical character)
- John Dewey
- Mary Shelley
- Sessh? T?y?
- Justinian I
- August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
- Saint Catherine of Sienna
- Pope Gregory XII
- Pope Benedict XIII
- Antipope Alexander V
- Pope Eugene IV
- Saint Stephen
- John F. Kennedy
- Nicholas of Cusa
- William Blake
- Ernst Cassirer
- Henry Moore
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mary Magdalene (Biblical Character)
- Joseph Campbell
- Sir Kenneth Clark
- Francesco Petrarca
- Auguste Rodin
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Gian Matteo Giberti
- Manual Chrysoloras
- Meister Eckhart
- Robert Flood
- William Faulkner
- Susanne K. Langer
- Walt Whitman
- Marcus Aurelius
- Charles Darwin
- Leo Tolstoy
- Andrea del Verrocchio
- Anne Hutchinson
- Arthur Kessler
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Francesco del Giocondo
- Francis I (King of France)
- Erasmo da Narni (Gattamelata)
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- John Mitchell
- Karl Marx
- Ludovico Sforza (Duke of Milan)
- Mai-Mai Sze
- Martin Luther
- Matsuo Bash?
- Ibn-al-Arabi
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Valmiki
- Constantine I (Constantine the Great)
- Trajan
- René Descartes
- Rembrandt
- Basil Jenkins
- Comte de Saint-Germain
- Baruch Spinoza
- Raffaello Sanzio
- Guido I da Polenta (Lord of Ravenna)
- Gustave Dore
- Salvador Dalí
- Charles Eliot Norton
- Etienne Gilson
- Charles Williams
- Dorothy Sayers
- Peter Wimsey
- King Hammurabi
- William II of Sicily
- Augustine of Hippo (Saint Augustine)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- James Dean
- Francesco Ferruccio
- Bernard Berenson
- Herennius Etruscus
- Lady Hamilton
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Henri Matisse