Philosophy, Medicine and Demonology from Byzantium to Italy

“E BYZANTIA FLORENTIAM ADVOLAVIT…”

Organised by Pietro Podolak and Maude Vanhaelen

This event is free and open to all. For more information and registration please contact: [email protected].

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/italian/research/events/progetto3.pdf

PROGRAMME

9.00-10.00 Nigel Wilson (Oxford): Reading Plato in Byzantium
10.00-10.30 Michael Malone-Lee (Oxford): Cardinal Bessarion’s Influence on the Transmission of Plato
10.30-11.00 Rocco di Dio (Warwick): Reconstructing the Stages of a Close Reading: Marsilio Ficino and Manuel Chrysoloras’ Translation of the Republic of Plato
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.15 Pietro Podolak (Warwick): Reading Plato: Some Examples from Pletho, Bessarion and Ficino
12.15-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-15.00 Caroline Petit (Warwick): Rediscovering Galen in Byzantium: the Fate of On simple medicines (K. XI, 372-XII, 379)
15.00-16.00 Eva Del Soldato (Warwick): Bessarion in the XVIth Century (and beyond): the Many Lives of the In calumniatorem Platonis
16.00-17.00 Stamatis Zochios (Paris): The Demonology of Michael Psellos: a Cross between Ancient Philosophy, Christianity and Popular Beliefs
17.00-17.30 Pietro Podolak and Maude Vanhaelen: Concluding Remarks

This workshop is organised with the generous support of the Leverhulme Trust, the Institute of Advanced Studies, the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and the Department of Italian.