Programme

Day 1
Friday, 17th September, 2004

9:00-9:45 Registration

10:00-11:30
Chair: Sarah Hutton (Middlesex University)
> Michael J. B. Allen (UCLA)
“Five questions concerning the soul: the answer is No!”
> John Dillon (Trinity College Dublin)
“Ficino in Pursuit of the Ineffable”

11:30-12:00 Coffee

12:00-1:00
Chair: Brian Vickers
> Peter Forshaw (Birkbeck)
“The Alchemical Reception of Ficino”
> Ruth Clydesdale (Birkbeck)
“Astrology in Ficino’s Letters”

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:30
Chair: Peter J. Forshaw (Birkbeck)
> Dilwyn Knox (UCL)
“Ficino and Aristophanes on the Fall “
> David Leech (Cambridge)
“Ficino and Cambridge Platonist Henry More on the
Imagination: a Comparative Perspective”.

3:30-4:00 Tea

4 :00-5:00
Chair: Valery Rees
> Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck)
“John Dee’s annotations to Ficino’s Plato translation.”
> Sarah Klitenic
“Ficino’s commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius’s Divine
Names”.

5:00 Close of Day 1

Day 2
Saturday, 18th September 2004

10:00-11:30
Chair: Jill Kraye (Warburg Institute)
> James Hankins (Harvard)
“Ficino on the natural religion”
> Brian Copenhaver (UCLA)
“Scribunt inter se laudationes Picus et Marsilius suus.”

11:30-12:00 Coffee

12:00-1:00
Chair: Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck)
> Valery Rees (SES)
“Quo vertam oculos ut te laudem? Aspects of Praise in Ficino’s Writing.”
> Paul Richard Blum (Loyola University)
“Et nuper Plethon: Ficino’s Praise of Georgios Gemistos.”

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2 :00-3:30
Chair: Dilwyn Knox (UCL)
> Irene Aasdalen (Royal Holloway)
“The Pico-Ficino controversy”.
> Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway)
“Platonic Love on the Rocks? Parody and Censorship in
Counter-Reformation Italy”
> Stéphane Toussaint (CNRS-CESR, Tours)
“Ficino on levitation: unknown sources in the Theologia platonica and in the Dev Vita.”

3 :30-4:00 Tea

4:00-5:00
Chair: Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway)
> Constance Blackwell (FIH)
“Ficino’s use of Simplicius makes Pereira think new
thoughts”
> Hiro Hirai (University of Liège)
Ficino's idea on the origin of life in the mirror of Fortunio Liceti’s criticism (1618)

5:00-5:30 Round Table Discussion

6:00 Drinks

7:30 Conference Dinner (Speakers)

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