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La tradizione filosofica dall’antico al moderno. Studi e testi

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Autore / Author: Simone Fellina

Affiliazione / Author affiliation: Università degli Studi di Parma

Titolo / Title: Platone a Ferrara: il De providentia ad sententiam Platonis et Platonicorum liber unus di Tommaso Giannini

Abstract: Tommaso Giannini (1556-1638) was a prominent professor at the Ferrara Studium between the sixteenth and the seventeenth century. Probably influenced by Platonic sympathies nurtured by the Court and partly by the University milieu, in 1587 he published his first work titled De providentia ad sententiam Platonis et Platonicorum liber unus, which was a catalyst for his academic career. His De providentia displays a large amount of sources always tacitly used: Marsilio Ficino, Jacques Charpentier, Giulio Serina, Stefano Tiepolo, Teofilo Zimara, Bessarion, Agostino Steuco, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and amid the ancients Plotinus, Plutarch, Sirianus, Proclus (read through Teofilo Zimara and Leonico Tomeo), Iamblichus, Apuleius, Calcidius, Ammonius, Psellus. Though a compilative work, the De providentia retains nonetheless a great importance insofar as it contributes to focus the bibliotheca platonica of the time, furthermore in the same years and place of Francesco Patrizi da Cherso’s teaching.

Keywords: Renaissance Platonism; sources; providence; One, Intellect, World Soul; demonology; astrology; human souls; metempsychosis.

English title: Plato at Ferrara: Tommaso Giannini’s De providentia ad sententiam Platonis et Platonicorum liber unus

DOI: 10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua5-14

Volume: 5

Pagine / Pages: 466-553

Pubblicazione / Publication date: 01/02/2019

Permalink: https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua5-14

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