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The Renaissance, known primarily for the art and literature that it produced, was also a period in which philosophical thought flourished. This two-volume anthology contains 40 new translations of important works on moral and political philosophy written during the Renaissance and hitherto unavailable in English. The anthology is designed to be used in conjunction with The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, in which all of these texts are discussed. The works, originally written in Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, and Greek, cover such topics as: concepts of man, Aristotelian, Platonic, Stoic, and Epicurean ethics, scholastic political philosophy, theories of princely and republican government in Italy and northern European political thought. Each text is supplied with an introduction and a guide to further reading

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Proem -- Chapter 1 -- The Sorrows of Boethius -- Abstract -- I. -- Song I. Boethius' Complaint -- II. -- Song II. His Despondency -- III. -- Song III. The Mists Dispelled -- IV. -- Song IV. Nothing Can Subdue Virtue -- V. -- Song V. Boethius' Prayer -- VI. -- Song VI. All Things Have Their Needful Order -- Song VII. The Perturbations of Passion -- Chapter 2 -- The Vanity of Fortune's Gifts -- Abstract -- I. -- Song I. Fortune's Malice -- II. -- Song II. Man's Covetousness -- III. -- Song III. All Passes -- IV. -- Song IV. The Golden Mean -- V. -- Song V. The Former Age -- VI. -- Song VI. Neros' Infamy -- VII. -- Song VII. Glory May Not Last -- VIII. -- Song VIII. Love Is Lord of All -- Chapter 3 -- True Happiness and False -- Abstract -- I. -- Song I. The Thorns of Error -- II. -- Song II. The Bent of Nature -- III. -- Song III. The Insatiableness of Avarice -- IV. -- Song IV. Disgrace of Honours Conferred by a Tyrant -- V. -- Song V. Self-Mastery -- VI. -- Song VI. True Nobility -- VII. -- Song VII. Pleasure's Sting -- VIII. -- Song VIII. Human Folly -- IX. -- Song IX. Invocation -- X. -- Song X. The True Light -- XI. -- Song XI. Reminiscence -- XII. -- Song XII. Orpheus and Eurydice -- Chapter 4 -- Good and Ill Fortune -- Abstract -- I. -- Song I. The Soul's Flight -- II. -- Song II. The Bondage of Passion -- III. -- Song III. Circe's Cup -- IV. -- Song IV. The Unreasonableness of Hatred -- V. -- Song V. Wonder and Ignorance -- VI. -- Song VI. The Universal Aim -- VII. -- Song VII. The Hero's Path -- Chapter 5 -- Free Will and God's Foreknowledge -- Abstract -- I. -- Song I. Chance -- II. -- Song II. The True Sun -- III. -- Song III. Truth's Paradoxes -- IV. -- Song IV. A Psychological Fallacy -- V. -- Song V. The Upward Look -- VI. -- Epilogue -- References to Quotations in the Text -- Index -- Blank Page

Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.

Delving into the intersections between artistic images and philosophical knowledge in Europe from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, The Art of Philosophy shows that the making and study of visual art functioned as important methods of philosophical thinking and instruction. From frontispieces of books to monumental prints created by philosophers in collaboration with renowned artists, Susanna Berger examines visual representations of philosophy and overturns prevailing assumptions about the limited function of the visual in European intellectual history. Rather than merely illustrating already existing philosophical concepts, visual images generated new knowledge for both Aristotelian thinkers and anti-Aristotelians, such as Descartes and Hobbes. Printmaking and drawing played a decisive role in discoveries that led to a move away from the authority of Aristotle in the seventeenth century. Berger interprets visual art from printed books, student lecture notebooks, alba amicorum (friendship albums), broadsides, and paintings, and examines the work of such artists as Pietro Testa, Leonard Gaultier, Abraham Bosse, Durer, and Rembrandt. In particular, she focuses on the rise and decline of the "plural image," a genre that was popular among early modern philosophers. Plural images brought multiple images together on the same page, often in order to visualize systems of logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, or moral philosophy

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Apin's Cabinet of Printed Curiosities -- 2. Thinking through Plural Images of Logic -- 3. The Visible Order of Student Lecture Notebooks -- 4. Visual Thinking in Logic Notebooks and Alba amicorum -- 5. The Generation of Art as the Generation of Philosophy -- Appendix 1. Catalogue of Surviving Impressions of Philosophical Plural Images -- Appendix 2. Transcriptions of the Texts Inscribed onto Philosophical Plural Images -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustration Credits

Jacob de Gheyn's 'Exercise of Armes' was an immense success when first published in 1607. It is a fascinating seventeenth-century military manual, designed to instruct contemporary soldiers how to handle arms effectively, and correctly, and it makes for a unique glimpse into warfare as waged in the Thirty Years War and the English Civil War. The manual uses illustrations to clearly demonstrate drills for soldiers employing calivers and muskets. It shows how to load and fire, or merely carry, a matchlock piece. In addition detailed illustrations show the various movements and postures to be adopted during use of the pike. There are 117 illustrations contained in this book and all are fine examples of seventeenth-century art. Each image is detailed and evocative and students of military history and military costume are sure to find them of immense interest. Jacob de Gheyn's manual is an important insight into how the armies of Europe operated in the field in the seventeenth century, but it is also an attractive book of considerable charm and character.