Italian Renaissance, 1983
by: Roger Weir
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Italian Renaissance
12 of 13 presentations available
Thursdays, Oct 6, 1983 to Dec 22, 1983
A series of 13 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
Recorded: October 6, 1983
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- Giotto (1266-1337): The Saint Francis Frescoes and Duomo; Brunelleschi (1377-1446): Architecture as Controlled Space of Man
Recorded: October 13, 1983
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- Petrarch (1304-1374): Sonnets and the Figure of Laura; Boccaccio (1313-1375): The Decameron as a Cycle of Life
Recorded: October 20, 1983
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- Fra Angelico (1386-1466) and Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469): Dominican Visionary Artists of the Interior Life
Recorded: October 27, 1983
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- Donatello (1386-1466): Sculptural Refinement of Man; Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464): Philosophical Refinement of the Vision
Recorded: November 3, 1983
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- Cosimo de' Medici (1389-1464) and Lorenzo de' Medici (1449-1495): Florentine Patrons of the Rebirth of Learning
Recorded: November 10, 1983
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- Ficino (1433-1499) and Pico Della Mirandola (1464-1495): Platonic and Hermetic Theology
Recorded: November 17, 1983
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- Botticelli (1444-1510): The Famous Florentine Painter
Recorded: November 24, 1983
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- Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince and the History of Florence; Vesalius (1514-1564): Man Revealed in His Exact Anatomy
Recorded: December 1, 1983
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- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519): The Renaissance Man Refined
Recorded: December 8, 1983
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- Giordano Bruno (1548-1600): Cosmic Orders in the Hermetic Tradition; Francesco Giorgi (1466-1540): Harmonia Mundi
Recorded: December 15, 1983
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- Campanella (1568-1639): Hermetic Science in Utopian City of the Sun; Galileo (1564-1642): Starry Messenger of Science (The New Magic)
Recorded: December 22, 1983
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- Raphael (1483-1520)
Recorded: December 29, 1983
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