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Marsilio Ficino Lecture Series: Gnosis, Astrology, and Medicine
Wouter J. Hanegraaff (University of Amsterdam), "The Role of Gnosis in Renaissance Hermetism: From Ficino to Foix de Candale" (February 13)
H. Darrel Rutkin (Stanford University): "The Physics and Metaphysics of Talismans (Imagines Astronomicae) in Marsilio Ficino's De vita libri tres: A Case Study in (Neo)Platonism, Aristotelianism and the Esoteric Tradition" (March 12)
Teodoro Katinis (Johns Hopkins University): "Marsilio Ficino's Medicine: Between Tradition and Innovation" (April 2)
Events details here.
The 2011 winners of the Singleton Center Paper Prize are Alexandra Letvin, of the Department of the History of Art, and Nathan Daniels, of the Department of History.
Read Alexandra's paper, "Contemplative Ascent and the Limitations of Vision in the Omne Bonum," here.
Read Nathan's paper, "From Jongleur to Minstrel: The Professionalization of Secular Musicians in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Paris," here.
The 2010 winner of the Singleton Center Paper Prize is Seth LeJacq of the Program in the History of Medicine, for his Spring 2009 paper, "'Butcher-like and hatefull': Domestic Medicine and Resistance to Surgery in Early Modern England."
Read Seth LeJacq's paper here.
The 2009 winner of the Singleton Center Paper Prize is Ben DeForest of the Humanities Center, for his Spring 2008 paper,
"Through a Jewel, Darkly: A Reading of the Frontispiece of Giambattista Vico's Scienza Nuova." Read Ben DeForest's paper here.
