Medieval Jewish Thought and the Italian Renaissance
The Warburg Institute
12 April 2021
Medieval Jewish Thought and the Italian Renaissance. The conference will take place on April 12, 2021, at The Warburg Institute. Organizers, Charles Burnett, Hanna Gentili, and Francesca Gorgoni. The conference is open access and will be held online via the zoom platform. Registration required. For the programme and registration: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23904
The reception of the medieval Hebrew philosophical tradition is a central element in the development of Renaissance philosophy, and a key factor in the interreligious dialogue which characterized the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Mediterranean context. This international conference will discuss themes, sources and languages which shaped the transmission of Jewish philosophy from the Iberian Peninsula and Provence to Italy. Intersecting Arabic, Hebrew and Latin sources, the reception of Jewish Medieval Philosophy in the early modern Italian tradition is an expanding area of research, and the conference aims to promote encounters and collaborations between senior scholars, early career researches and postgraduate students.
Programme:
9:30-9:45: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute): Opening remarks
9:45-10:45: Yossef Schwartz (Tel Aviv University): ‘Early Manifestations of Jewish Italian Renaissance and Their Multi-Cultural Dimensions: Hillel ben Samuel ben Elazar of Verona’
10:45-11:00: Short break
11:00-12:00: Joanna Weinberg (University of Oxford): ‘Rabbi or Church Father: the Jewish Debate over Philo in Early Modern Italy’
12:00-13:00: Lunch break
13:00-14:30: Afternoon session 1. Chair: Hanna Gentili (Warburg Institute):
- Yehuda Halper (Bar-Ilan University): ‘Jacob Anatoli and the Foundations of Hebrew Philosophical Study in Italy’
- Francesca Gorgoni (University of Haifa): ‘Posse est pati. Passion and imagination in Averroes’ theory of poetic discourse’
- Giovanna Cifoletti (Centre Alexandre-Koyré – EHESS): ‘Averroes in Venetian Algebra: from Pacioli to Tartaglia’
14:30-14:45: Short break
14:45-16:15: Afternoon session 2. Chair: Jill Kraye (Warburg Institute)
- Hanna Gentili (Warburg Institute): ‘The Reception of Averroes’ Natural Philosophy in the Jewish Fifteenth-century context’
- Michael Engel (Hamburg University): ‘Was There Really a Hebrew-into-Latin Translation of Averroes’ Long Commentary on the De anima III.5 and III.36?’
- Cedric Skalli Cohen (University of Haifa): ‘Bible Criticism’s Forgotten Debt to Isaac Abravanel’
16:15-16:30: Short break
16:30-17:00: Giuseppe Veltri (Director of the Maimonides Center, Universität Hamburg): ‘Jewish Philosophy in Protestant and Calvinist Dissertationes of the Early Modern Period’
17:00-18:00: Zev Harvey (Hebrew University): ‘Averroes and Maimonides in Sforno’s Lumen Gentium’