I'm giving a lecture:

THE EYE AS CAMERA OBSCURA: MARSILIO FICINO'S OPTICS, COSMOLOGY, AND METAPHYSICS

at Columbia University on 9 September at 4:00pm EST. If you wish to attend in person or online please find the abstract and information here:

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I’m giving a lecture at Plato’s Academy next week.

Everyone is welcome, but it is a plus if you know some geometry…

Ho l’onore di essere invitato a tenere una lezione al Laboratorio di Mistica all’Università di Roma La Sapienza il 30 aprile sul tema:

Cusano lettore di Proclo e del Corpus Dionysiacum

Nel caso che volete sentirmi parlare in persona a Roma o tramite Zoom…

I’m presenting a paper tomorrow morning on Ficino and optics with colleagues presenting on fascinating topics in a session that I organized with Andrew Chen for the Society of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy for the RSA conference in Boston.

All SMRP papers seem excellent this year.

#RenSA25

Very happy to be arriving in Siegen to speak at this Cusanus conference.

Pleased to share a call for graduate student applicants for a summer symposium in Rome (17-20 June, 2024) on Elements of Reasoning/Elements of Nature organized by Physis: the Notre Dame Laboratory for the Study of Nature in the Premodern World.

See details below or contact me.

Plato, father of philosophers, died at a symposium at 81, on 7 November, his birthday. Platonists until Porphyry and Plotinus renewed this feast each year to mark Plato's birth and death, but after Porphyry these solemn banquets were neglected for 1,200 years.

Ficino, De amore*