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Dilwyn Knox
University College London, School of European Languages, Faculty Member
A substantially revised version of my entry 'Giordano Bruno'' for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, focussing on his cosmology, ontology and psychology.
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The paper shows that a) Erasmus's treatise De civilitate was widely adopted in Protestant Latin schools during the sixteenth century; b) that the ideals that it espoused conformed to a well-established tradition in religious, clerical and... more
The paper shows that a) Erasmus's treatise De civilitate was widely adopted in Protestant Latin schools during the sixteenth century; b) that the ideals that it espoused conformed to a well-established tradition in religious, clerical and secular eduction; and c) that the ideal of rational bodily conduct suited the ideals of Reformation education.
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A detailed discussion of the philosophical ideas and context of Giordano Bruno's argument in his best known work, De la causa.
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'Giovanni Bonifacio's L'arte de' cenni and Renaissance Ideas of Gesture'. ... Knox, D (1996) 'Giovanni Bonifacio's L'arte de' cenni and Renaissance Ideas of Gesture'. In: Tavoni, M, (ed.)... more
'Giovanni Bonifacio's L'arte de' cenni and Renaissance Ideas of Gesture'. ... Knox, D (1996) 'Giovanni Bonifacio's L'arte de' cenni and Renaissance Ideas of Gesture'. In: Tavoni, M, (ed.) Italia ed Europa nella Linguistica del Rinascimento. Confronti e Relazioni, Atti del ...
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The publication of this work was aided by the Stanwood Cockey Lodge Foundation Publications in the series Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition are listed at the end of this volume Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data... more
The publication of this work was aided by the Stanwood Cockey Lodge Foundation Publications in the series Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition are listed at the end of this volume Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Knox, Dilwyn. Ironia: medieval and ...
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script that preserves the identified recollecte are considered by the editor to have a similar Pontanian provenance. These texts open a revealing window onto the inner workings of humanist schools in mid-fifteenth-century Italy. In the... more
script that preserves the identified recollecte are considered by the editor to have a similar Pontanian provenance. These texts open a revealing window onto the inner workings of humanist schools in mid-fifteenth-century Italy. In the first place, they show that a humanist master such as Pontano was concerned, above all else, with teaching philology, both in the narrow sense of Latin lexicography, orthography, etymology, and pronunciation; and in the wider meaning of exegesis and historical, mythological, antiquarian, ethnological, and geographical context. Morals — albeit an overriding concern of Pontano’s in his many dialogues and treatises — make no appearance here. As far as sources are concerned, Pontano relied heavily on genuinely ancient commentators such as Servius; despite his polemics against barbarous medieval grammarians, he nevertheless made extensive use of medieval authorities such as Isidore of Seville, Papias, Hugutio, and Giovanni Balbi too. In the classroom, Pontano was no purist, even employing the non-classical formula Nota quod, beloved of medieval grammarians such as Bene da Firenze and Giovanni da Soncino. Pontano emerges, like other humanist pedagogues such as Guarino and Perotti, as a pragmatist: he adjusted the level of his teaching to the often limited knowledge and capacities of his pupils. Particularly notable in this regard is his recourse to the vernacular to provide explanations of, and synonyms for, rare or difficult Latin words; the volgare here has Southern Italian characteristics, further suggesting the extent to which Pontano (Umbrian by birth and early education) adapted his teaching practices to the needs of his Neapolitan pupils. Pontano’s lessons provided the same kind of hybrid menu — drawing as he did on classical Greek and Latin as well as late ancient, early Christian, and medieval sources — that typified the education offered up by other fifteenth-century Italian pedagogues. Giuseppe Germano and Antonietta Iacono have provided much new material for students of Italian humanism and particularly for historians of school education in fifteenth-century Italy. Their studies, editions, and commentaries are prepared with careful attention to detail and with commendable philological rigor. ROBERT BLACK University of Leeds
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... 166 COPERNICUS ON GRAVITY Figure 2. Peter Apiary Cosmographicus liber, Nuremberg 1524, p. 6. The spheres are arranged as in Figure 1, with the exception of the water and air spheres, which form here a composite terraqueous globe... more
... 166 COPERNICUS ON GRAVITY Figure 2. Peter Apiary Cosmographicus liber, Nuremberg 1524, p. 6. The spheres are arranged as in Figure 1, with the exception of the water and air spheres, which form here a composite terraqueous globe rather than two distinct spheres. ...
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'Giovanni Bonifacio's L'arte de' cenni and Renaissance Ideas of Gesture'. ... Knox, D (1996) 'Giovanni Bonifacio's L'arte de' cenni and Renaissance Ideas of Gesture'. In: Tavoni, M, (ed.)... more
'Giovanni Bonifacio's L'arte de' cenni and Renaissance Ideas of Gesture'. ... Knox, D (1996) 'Giovanni Bonifacio's L'arte de' cenni and Renaissance Ideas of Gesture'. In: Tavoni, M, (ed.) Italia ed Europa nella Linguistica del Rinascimento. Confronti e Relazioni, Atti del ...
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A detailed discussion of the philosophical ideas and context of Giordano Bruno's argument in his best known work, De la causa.
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... 166 COPERNICUS ON GRAVITY Figure 2. Peter Apiary Cosmographicus liber, Nuremberg 1524, p. 6. The spheres are arranged as in Figure 1, with the exception of the water and air spheres, which form here a composite terraqueous globe... more
... 166 COPERNICUS ON GRAVITY Figure 2. Peter Apiary Cosmographicus liber, Nuremberg 1524, p. 6. The spheres are arranged as in Figure 1, with the exception of the water and air spheres, which form here a composite terraqueous globe rather than two distinct spheres. ...
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... 166 COPERNICUS ON GRAVITY Figure 2. Peter Apiary Cosmographicus liber, Nuremberg 1524, p. 6. The spheres are arranged as in Figure 1, with the exception of the water and air spheres, which form here a composite terraqueous globe... more
... 166 COPERNICUS ON GRAVITY Figure 2. Peter Apiary Cosmographicus liber, Nuremberg 1524, p. 6. The spheres are arranged as in Figure 1, with the exception of the water and air spheres, which form here a composite terraqueous globe rather than two distinct spheres. ...
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Summary Book II rehearses many cosmological and metaphysical ideas addressed elsewhere in De immenso, and indeed in Bruno’s other works. The last two chapters, 12 and 13, however, develop an idea that he had hitherto discussed only... more
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Book II rehearses many cosmological and metaphysical ideas addressed elsewhere in De immenso, and indeed in Bruno’s other works. The last two chapters, 12 and 13, however, develop an idea that he had hitherto discussed only briefly, namely, the perfection of the universe. The chapters take the form of a detailed criticism of Aristotle’s arguments in De caelo, I 1, that the cosmos was a perfect, finite, body, followed by his alternative proposal. This took as its starting point a scholastic distinction between two forms of perfection: the perfection of finite bodies and the absolute perfection of God. Bruno then added that God’s image, the infinite universe, albeit corporeal, must also be absolutely perfect. The numberless solar systems or «synods» contained within it, perfect as they were in the finite sense, were the «messengers» announcing its absolute perfection and thereby providing, God incarnate, individual soul with the means to perfect itself. Now, given that the universe, no less than God, was absolutely perfect, it was absolutely good. It accommodated the apparent imperfections, including evil, of finite things by virtue of being, again like God, a coincidence of opposites. It must also, according to the scholastic principle that transcendentals such as good, truth and being, were convertible in God’s unity, be absolute Being. Hence, in Book II, chapters 12 and 13, as elsewhere, Bruno defined the universe, rather than God, as the Eleatic One Being of which all sensible things were transitory modes. To complement this interpretation Bruno reascribed the scholastic definition of God as an infinite sphere to the Eleatics and applied it to his «second God», the universe. The concept of perfection, as formulated in Book II, chapters 12 and 13, led Bruno to clarify, perhaps more concisely than on any other occasion, the cohesion of some key ideas in his «new philosophy».
Book II rehearses many cosmological and metaphysical ideas addressed elsewhere in De immenso, and indeed in Bruno’s other works. The last two chapters, 12 and 13, however, develop an idea that he had hitherto discussed only briefly, namely, the perfection of the universe. The chapters take the form of a detailed criticism of Aristotle’s arguments in De caelo, I 1, that the cosmos was a perfect, finite, body, followed by his alternative proposal. This took as its starting point a scholastic distinction between two forms of perfection: the perfection of finite bodies and the absolute perfection of God. Bruno then added that God’s image, the infinite universe, albeit corporeal, must also be absolutely perfect. The numberless solar systems or «synods» contained within it, perfect as they were in the finite sense, were the «messengers» announcing its absolute perfection and thereby providing, God incarnate, individual soul with the means to perfect itself. Now, given that the universe, no less than God, was absolutely perfect, it was absolutely good. It accommodated the apparent imperfections, including evil, of finite things by virtue of being, again like God, a coincidence of opposites. It must also, according to the scholastic principle that transcendentals such as good, truth and being, were convertible in God’s unity, be absolute Being. Hence, in Book II, chapters 12 and 13, as elsewhere, Bruno defined the universe, rather than God, as the Eleatic One Being of which all sensible things were transitory modes. To complement this interpretation Bruno reascribed the scholastic definition of God as an infinite sphere to the Eleatics and applied it to his «second God», the universe. The concept of perfection, as formulated in Book II, chapters 12 and 13, led Bruno to clarify, perhaps more concisely than on any other occasion, the cohesion of some key ideas in his «new philosophy».
The relation God/world and the necessity of the infinite universe · The aim of this chapter is to present the most relevant points of De immenso’s first book, focussing on the differences from the Italian dialogue De l’infinito, and in... more
The relation God/world and the necessity of the infinite universe · The aim of this chapter is to present the most relevant points of De immenso’s first book, focussing on the differences from the Italian dialogue De l’infinito, and in particular on the a priori demonstration that the infinity of the universe proceeds necessarily from the divine cause as Bruno conceives it. The essay follows the tri- partite structure of Book i, paying attention to Bruno’s idea of planetary systems (synodi ex mundis) as the basic cosmological structure of the infinite universe as well as to his polemics with the scholastic distinction between the absolute and the ordained power of God.
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... To the administrators and staff I owe a special debt of gratitude. Equally generous with their more specialized collections on the campus of the University of Toronto were the libraries of Emmanuel, Knox, Wycliffe, and Regis colleges.... more
... To the administrators and staff I owe a special debt of gratitude. Equally generous with their more specialized collections on the campus of the University of Toronto were the libraries of Emmanuel, Knox, Wycliffe, and Regis colleges. ...
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... To the administrators and staff I owe a special debt of gratitude. Equally generous with their more specialized collections on the campus of the University of Toronto were the libraries of Emmanuel, Knox, Wycliffe, and Regis colleges.... more
... To the administrators and staff I owe a special debt of gratitude. Equally generous with their more specialized collections on the campus of the University of Toronto were the libraries of Emmanuel, Knox, Wycliffe, and Regis colleges. ...
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... Alla metà del secolo, una conferma dell'alto livello delle collezioni bembesche viene dalle biografie del Casa e di Ludovico Beccadelli, con la nota testimonianza sulla villa padovana:un livello che trova conferma... more
... Alla metà del secolo, una conferma dell'alto livello delle collezioni bembesche viene dalle biografie del Casa e di Ludovico Beccadelli, con la nota testimonianza sulla villa padovana:un livello che trova conferma nell'inventa-rio cinquecentesco della ...